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Hard Soap

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and beef work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 539 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Hard Soap

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Six pounds soda, four pounds lime, four gallons water. Mix in the pot till quite hot, but do not let it boil. Let this settle. Put in seven and a half pounds of grease, and let it simmer till soft. Then add the soda, lime, and water, and let it boil two hours, not longer. While boiling feed with soda water. Put in half a pint of salt fifteen minutes before the

  2. MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES. 289

  3. boiling is done. It must be stirred all the time while boiling. If the lime is very strong two and a half pounds will be enough. The sediment of the soda and lime will do for whitewash.

  4. HARD SOAP (without Boiling).

  5. Dissolve one box lye over night in seven pints of warm water, and in the morning add six pints liquid grease. Stir for three-quarters of an hour, all one way. Pour it into moulds, and cut it out the next day. A small piece of beef tallow added will make it finer.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

310Calories
26 gProtein
15 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Tallownot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lime + beeftop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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