soap-fat

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 Elizabeth E. Lea

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 Elizabeth E. Lea

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 William H. Armstrong

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

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

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 Various

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 Elizabeth E. Lea

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 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

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 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

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 Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

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 Mark Twain 1872