soap-fat

• “Why, my daughter Sal saw them at the soap-fat barrel!”

  Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

• “It is of the greatest importance to keep the soap-fat in strong ley.”

  Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

• “Put four gallons of soap-fat that has been eaten with ley, in a barrel with eight gallons of strong ley, stir it two or three times a day, for a week or two, then fill it up with weaker ley, you may have several barrels making at a time, so as always to have some for use, it takes some time to make it in this way.”

  Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

• “Unless you have plenty of ashes and soap-fat, it is much cheaper to buy hard soap than to make it.”

  Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

• “The skins should be boiled alone, and will do for soap-fat after the lard is out of them.”

  Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

• “Ever since these black stones was brought to town, the wood-sawyers and pilers, and them soap-fat and hickory-ashes men, has been going down; and, for my part, I can't say as I see what's to be the end of all their new-fangled contraptions.”

  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2

• “The first was from the soap-fat merchant, who gave me thirty-four pounds of good soap for my grease.”

  Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

• “Oh, if you had seen me stand by the soap-fat man, and scrutinize minutely his weights and measures, telling him again and again that it was beautiful grease, and he must allow me a good price for it – truly, I am a mother in Israel.”

  Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

• “When Barbara gave her a frozen look, Sary examined her hands for a moment, then humped her shoulders and stamped back to the kitchen-range where she had been boiling soap-fat and straining out the scum before the arrival of the city misses.”

  Polly of Pebbly Pit

• “You must apply there, and not elsewhere; and you pay your money before you get your soap-fat.”

  The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

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