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sieve; let it settle. It is to be used for all kinds of lobster and crab dishes.
To make green soap.
Gather tallow and fat (not suet) found as refuse matter in the house, and when
ready for the soap making melt it down in a large kettle and let stand to
stiffen. Then weigh it. Fat in meat bones should now be taken and crushed very
fine and placed in a pan filled with water and well covered, thus to boil for 12
hours. Then pour out the water, let it cool and remove the fatty bottoms, which
are to be used for the soap. Then take 20 pounds tallow and 6 pails of strong
lye made of birch ashes, so strong that a fresh egg floats in it. Pour this lye
into a large kettle and also the tallow which now is to be boiled for 4 or 5
hours, during which time use a large iron or copper dipper to lift up and pour
own again the
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