A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

Author:Richard Peck [Peck, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101664360
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2000-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

When we got there, Grandma was out in the yard, standing over a thing made out of lumber in the shape of a teepee. Nearby was a pile of stove lengths on the circle of burned ground where she cooked down her apples for apple butter.

She waved us over. “We’re makin’ soap.”

Until we started coming to Grandma’s, we thought soap was a pink bar that came out of a wrapper labeled Cashmere Bouquet. But that cost seven cents, and Grandma made her own. She soon had us busy as bird dogs. She sent Mary Alice to the pump for pail after pail of water, and she sent me to the house for coal scuttles full of wood ash from the kitchen stove. Grandma poured the water through the teepee, which was a hopper. When it dropped through the ash, it came out as lye. Grandma caught it in a pan. We worked till supper time. Before we went inside, she built up a big fire from the stove lengths and shavings.

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