Ingredients
- 3 pints warm soft water
- 5 pounds of clean rendered grease
- 1 ten cent can of babbitt's potash
Directions
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Mrs. G. O. Beery.
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Dissolve 1 ten cent can of Babbitt's potash and J pound pow- dered borax in 3 pints warm soft water. Melt 5 pounds of clean rendered grease. When the solution is cool, and before the grease becomes hot, pour the grease slowly into the potash and borax, stirring constantly until the mixture is like molasses, when it can he poured into the vessel to harden. Just before it hardens, add I- pint gasoline.
By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp ·
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