Ingredients
- a gallon of lye into a barrelful of water
- three shovelfuls of wood-ashes
Directions
1
Add half a pound of the best quick-lime dissolved in water to every hundred gallons. Smaller proportions may be more conveniently managed, and if allowed to stand a short time the lime will have united with the carbonate of lime, and been deposited at the bottom of the receptacle. Another way is to put a gallon of lye into a barrelful of water, or two or three shovelfuls of wood-ashes, let stand over night; it will be clear and soft.
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann ·
Recipe sourced from
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