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Re: Jefferson's soap
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Mary Moyars-Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:11:22 -0400
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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

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