Another Receipt.

Two days before you wish to commence your soap, pour about two gallons

of boiling water on ten or twelve pounds of potash, to dissolve it, then

put it in an iron pot or kettle, with ten gallons of rain water, hang it

over the fire, and when it has dissolved, pour twelve pounds of grease,

which has been purified by boiling in water, (or weak ley,) into a well

hooped barrel, (an oil barrel from which one head has been taken, and

the bung well fastened, is best,) then pour the water in which the

potash was dissolved over the grease in the barrel, and stir it for half

an hour; afterwards fill up the barrel with cold soft water, and stir it

every day for two weeks. If at the end of that time, the fat swims on

the top, beat a pound or two more of potash fine, throw it in the

barrel, stir it well, and the soap will be finished.