Monday, February 07, 2005

Soap Making

Soap Making
From the Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 07 February 1816, page 3

Soap made of snow in the following manner:--Take and cut into very small pieces one pound of good hard soap, dissolve it with a slow fire, when dissolved put six or eight pounds of clean snow with it, and after having boiled them together well for three hours (or until it shows a lather on its surface) add a wine glass of salt, and let it get cold, when it will be found the finest soap & to weigh as much as the snow did originally

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