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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1869
Page
2
A simple method uses a twenty inch long plank and a foot wide base. Bevel the sides slightly and nail flexible thin boards as six to eight inch uprights. Space uprights about fifteen inches at the top and place the bag between them with the upper end folded over the shoulders for stability during filling.
The article presents a detailed wedding cake recipe with butter sugar eggs fruit and citron. It guides softening butter beating yolks and whites separately, adding spices flour and fruit in layers, and baking tips using three-quart pans and a broom test for doneness.
The piece explains that true soft soap requires a 1 to 1 ratio of grease to potash and water, advising 30 pounds of commercial potash per 30 pounds of grease for a 42 gallon barrel. It notes canned concentrated lye fails to keep beyond three weeks and that lye from hickory wood ashes yields the best soap, though test accuracy is uncertain and depends on skill and luck.
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