s are put into it. They should be boiled in it, and then
hung where they will drain and dry.

438. _Soap from Scraps._

Dissolve eighteen pounds of potash in three pailsful of water; then add
to it twenty-five pounds of grease, and boil it over a slow fire for a
couple of hours. Turn it into a barrel, and fill it up with water.

439. _Cold Soap._

Heat twenty-six pounds of strained grease. When melted, mix it with four
pailsful of lye, made of twenty pounds of white potash. Let the whole
stand in the sun, stirring it frequently. In the course of a week, fill
the barrel with weak lye. This method of making soap is much easier than
to make a lye of your ashes, while it is as cheap, if you sell your
ashes to the soap-boiler.

440. _Hard Soap._

Dissolve twenty weight of white potash in three pailsful of water. Heat
twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved potash,
and boil them together till the whole becomes a thick jelly, which is
ascertained by taking a little of it out to get cold. Take it from the
fire, stir in cold water till it grows thin, then put to each pailful of
soap a pint of blown salt--stir it in well. The succeeding day, separate
it from the lye, and heat it over a slow fire. Let it boil a quarter of
an hour, then take it from the fire. If you wish to have it a yellow
color, put in a little palm oil, and turn it out into wooden vessels.
When cold, separate it again from the lye, and cut, it in bars--let them
remain in the sun several days to dry.

441. _Windsor and Castile Soap._

To make the celebrated Windsor soap, nothing more is necessary than to
slice the best white soap as thin as possible, and melt it over a slow
fire. Take it from the fire when melted, and when it is just lukewarm,
add enough of the oil of caraway to scent it. If any other fragrant oil
is liked better, if may be substituted. Turn it into moulds, and let it
remain in a dry situation for five or six days. To make Castile soap,
boil common soft soap in lamp oil three hours and a half.

442. _Bayberry, or Myrtle Soap._

Dissolve two pounds and a quarter of white potash in five quarts of
water, then mix it with ten pounds of myrtle wax, or bayberry tallow.
Boil the whole over a slow fire, till it turns to soap, then add a
tea-cup of cold water--let it boil ten minutes longer--at the end of
that time turn it into tin moulds, or pans, and let them remain a week
or ten days to dry, then turn them