No Caustic Soda
Dear Aunt Daisy, I always read your page in The Listener with interest, and now have two problems which I hope you will be able to solve for me. The first is, I want to make some more household soap; but £- can’t get caustic soda now. So is it possible to get anything else instead? My second request is for recipes using leeks. From one packet of seeds, over seven hundred plants are growing; and as they are nearly ready to pull, I was wondering if you could give me a few recipes on how to use them instead of just serving them boiled, with white sauce; for otherwise I am sure we shall all be heartily tired of them before thev are all weed?
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4iere 1S your soap recipe, sent in promptly in answer to my S.O.S., in the usual kindly way of the Daisy Chain, by a Petone Listener. She had it given her years ago by a dear old Norwegian lady whose husband was in the soap manufacturing business. The recipe makes 16 to 18 pounds of soap. Seven pounds of clean fat, 4lb. of washing soda, 1'%2lb. of unslaked lime, 341b. of resin, 1% gallons of water. Boil the lime and soda with the water; let it stand overnight, and strain. Then boil the strained liquor with the fat and resin for about 20 minutes. Be VERY CAREFUL not to let it boil over. For using your plethora of leeks, you could try a leek pie now and then, and you can use a good many in soups and stews instead of ordinary onions. Perhaps some readers may have some good suggestions. Here are a few recipes:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 48, 24 May 1940, Page 44
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289No Caustic Soda New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 48, 24 May 1940, Page 44
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