  Soap without boiling, will float if not too much ham or bacon drippings are used. Into 1 quart of cold water dissolve the contents of one can of Babbits potash or lye. Melt to luke warm heat, 6 lbs, (light weight) of clean drippings that have been strained through cheesescloth several times. Before adding the lye to the strained grease, add 1 large cupful of borax. Stir lye into kettle containing grease and stir constantly until very thick. Pour into a pan, score; in 10 or 12 hours turn out of pan and let dry. A little perfume may be added if you wish. Lamb drippings makes the finest soap. FOOTNOTES:Transcriber's Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Text uses both "today" and "to-day." It also used both "tablespoon" and "tablespoons" when referring to an ingredient with an additional fraction of a tablespoon added, i.e. "1½ tablespoon" and "1½ tablespoons." Page 13, The original had the portrait pages out of order on the list. These have been reordered. The original read:
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