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Soap and housekeeping

4 recipes · Butchering

4 soap and housekeeping recipes from the “Big Cookbook,” in the butchering category. From Henriette Schønberg Erken's original text to a modernized version for today's kitchen.

  • Soft Soap

    Erken's recipe (1914) for soft soap boiled from hardwood-ash lye and scrap fat from the slaughtering; boiled and stirred cold in a wooden tub.

  • Soap III

    Erken's soap recipe III from 1914: rough tallow boiled 1 hour with lye and water, poured out and cut into squares, or whipped out as soft soap.

  • Bar Soap I

    Bar soap I from Erken (1914): a lye of soda and slaked lime boiled about 3 hours with tallow, marbled with laundry blue, cut in bars.

  • Bar Soap II

    Bar soap II from Erken (1914): a large two-stage soap boiling of scrap fat with a lye of soda and lime, salted out with coarse salt and cut into bars.