[MR] Soap Making Thanks!

[Terry L. Neill]

Oh, sorry, I forgot to include my recipie for the Anarra Method of Soap 
Making (patent pending):

2 pounds of tallow
2.2 ounces of lye
1.5 cups of COLD water

2.2 ounces of lye
1/2 cup of COLD water

Lavender essential oil
1/2 to 3/4 cup finely chopped lavender flowers and stems

Melt tallow.  Add 2.2 ounces of lye to 1.5 cups of water (careful, 
dangerous!) When both lye and tallow are at ~120 degrees F, carefully pour 
lyewater into tallow (in glass or ceramic bowl).  Stir for 1/2 hour and 
wonder why it won't saponify.

Send friend to store for more lye.  While waiting, make cheese biscuits.

Biscuits:

3 cups of flour
1 stick of butter
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 pound of sharp cheddar cheese, finely grated.
3/4 cup of milk

blend butter into flour and baking powder until mix looks like roughly 
ground corn meal.  Grate cheese in, mixing frequently, until mix looks like 
orange roughly ground corn meal.  Pour in milk.  Mix together.  take small 
amounts of dough and roll and pat into rough circles and put on cookie tray. 
  Bake at 350 F for ~15 minutes.

Place bowl with semi-soap in front of oven vent to heat up.  (Although, 
technically, you could bake anything to use the oven vent to heat up the 
semi-soap, or even heat it up in the microwave, it won't be the Anarra 
Method of Soap Making (patent pending) unless you make cheese biscuits!)

When friend comes back from store, take 2.2 ounces of lye and carefully pour 
lye into 1/2 cup of water.  Add to heated semi-soap.  Stir for 15 minutes.  
As mix gets firmer, stir in 30-40 drops of Lavender essential oil and 1/2 to 
3/4 cups of chopped up fresh lavender.

Eat biscuits while stirring.


(BY THE WAY, if you decide to make soap the conventional way:

2 pounds of tallow
4.4 ounces of lye
1.5 cups of COLD water
herbs and/or essential oils of your choice

Biscuits then become optional.)

- Anarra
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