Standard ingredients are fat and lye.
I probably still have my grandmother's 19th century recipe
which she used until about 1950.
Mary Moyars-Johnson (MMJ)
On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Henry Wiencek wrote:
> And now for something completely different:
>
> I see a reference in Jefferson's accounts in 1773 to buying soap
> from a
> slave. Apparently the slave was making the soap, so I am asking if
> anyone
> can point me to a source that would explain how 18th-century
> farming folk
> made their soap. Nothing to get lathered up about.
>
> Henry Wiencek