Soap making
| Description: |
Two typed pages which describe how pioneers in Parke County, Indiana made lye for their soap using ashes which came from the wood they burnt as fuel for cooking and warmth. They then added the lye to meat by products and soap was made after a two to three day cooking process. |
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| Source: |
http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isulib/id/2045 |
| Collection: |
Indiana State University Library |
| Subjects: |
Parke County (Ind.) Household soap Lye Pioneers Frontier & pioneer life Domestic Life People |
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