[Loch-Ruadh] Fw: [sca-arts] Soap Recipe!

[Steve Rourke]

> Look! A Soap Recipe:
>
> "To Make Muske Soape Take stronge lye made of chalk, and six pounde of
> stone chalk: iiii, pounde of Deere Suet, and put them in the lye; in an
> earthen potte, and mingle it well, and kepe it the space of forty daies,
> and mingle and [styr? fyr?] it, iii, or, iiii times a daye, tyll it be
> consumed, and that, that remayneth, vii, or, viii, dayes after, then you
> muste put a quarter of an ounce of Muske, and when you have done so, you
> must [sty?re] it, and it wyll smell of Musk."
>
>  The treasurie of commodious conceits, & hidden secrets by Partridge,
> John, fl. 1566-1573. Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iones, 1573
>



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