The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide: Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner

be fit for use. 62. _To make Bayberry or Myrtle Soap._ To a pound of bayberry tallow, put a pint of potash lye, strong enough to bear up an egg. Boil them together till it becomes soap. Then put in half a tea cup of cold water, let it boil several minutes longer. Take it off, and when partly cooled put in a few drops of the essence of wintergreen, pour it into moulds and let it remain several days. This soap is good for shaving, and is an excellent thing for chapped hands and eruptions on the face. 63. _Cold Soap._ To twenty pounds of white potash put ten of grease, previously melted and strained. Mix it well together with a pailful of cold water, let it remain several days, then stir in several more pailsful of cold water. Continue to pour in cold water at intervals of two or three days, stirring it up well each time. As soon as the water begins to thin it, it is time to leave off adding it. This method of making soap is much easier than any other, while it is equally cheap and good. If you have not land to enrich with your ashes they can be disposed of to advantage at the soap boiler's. THE END. Transcriber's Note The following typographical errors were corrected: Page Error vii 67 changed to 97 ix Apple Dumplings changed to Apple Dumplings, x woolen Shawls changed to woolen Shawls, 3 petre changed to petre, 4 and alspice changed to and allspice 4 when severl slices changed to when several slices 4 mix a tea spoonfull changed to mix a tea spoonful 11 pigs ear's changed to pig's ears 15 fow s changed to fowls 15 Cold Veal changed to Cold Veal. 21 rice, and a a lb. changed to rice, and a lb. 25 twenty minutes, changed to twenty minutes. 61 whites of threee ggs, changed to whites of three eggs, 63 to your tase. changed to to your taste. 71 sugar, half a tea spoonsful changed to sugar, half a tea spoonful