Ingredients
- six quarts of hot water that has just come to a boil
- one tablespoonful to a pan of hot water when needed
- a teaspoonful of hartshorn added to the soap used will remove tar
- six drachms of pulverized arrow-root
Directions
Fifteen ounces of castile soap, thirty ounces sal soda, six drachms of pulverized arrow-root. Put these ingredients into six quarts of hot water that has just come to a boil. When these are dissolved add fifteen quarts of cold water, and let the whole come to a boil. The soap is then done and is fit for use as soon as cold. The castile soap should be scraped fine and the soda pounded. A teaspoonful of hartshorn added to the soap used will remove tar, paint, or grease spots from cloth.
AN EXCELLENT MIXTURE FOR WASHING CHINA, GLASS, OR SILVER.
Fill a stone jar with alternate layers of any good laundry soap, shaved very thin, and of washing soda. When the jar is full, pour over the mixture cold rain water. Let it stand a few days until it jellies. Put one tablespoonful to a pan of hot water when needed for use.