Lye making

[AlanM]

Found this simple way of making your own lye on The Gulch.

Build a V shaped hopper.put your hardwood ashes in it,and pour in water....the runoff will be lye.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Is it Potasium Hydroxide or Sodium Hydroxide?

[AlanM]

Is it Potasium Hydroxide or Sodium Hydroxide?

Potasium hydroxide.

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_ashlye.html

[KBCraig]

Is it Potasium Hydroxide or Sodium Hydroxide?

Yes. 

They're both lye, and can be used for making soap, lutefisk, or hominy.

Kevin

[AlanM]

Is it Potasium Hydroxide or Sodium Hydroxide?

Yes. 

They're both lye, and can be used for making soap, lutefisk, or hominy.

Kevin

But what yo get from hardwood ash is mainly potassium hydroxide, though there is also some sodium hydroxide in it, so you could say 'yes' to the question, as Kevin did. 

[Pat K]

Is it Potasium Hydroxide or Sodium Hydroxide?

Yes. 

They're both lye, and can be used for making soap, lutefisk, or hominy.

Kevin

O-k will some one tell the city boy wtf lutefisk and hominy is?

[FrankChodorov]

oh sorry Alan...I thought this was another thread about the Bush admininstration and the Republican Party.

my bad - carry on!

[KBCraig]

O-k will some one tell the city boy wtf lutefisk and hominy is?

Hominy is dried corn that is rehydrated by soaking in lye. It's sometimes served as side dish alone, used in soups (menudo, for instance), or ground into meal to make grits.

Lutefisk is a nordic curiosity, where air-dried whitefish (usually cod) goes through a days-long process of soaking in cold water, then lye, then cold water again. I understand it has the consistency of jelly, and is something of an acquired taste. It's a folk food in Minnesota.

[Pat K]

Thank you and YUCK, think I will skip those dishes.

[error]

Oh, I love grits. And I'm afraid there won't be anybody in NH who knows what grits are...

[KBCraig]

Oh, I love grits. And I'm afraid there won't be anybody in NH who knows what grits are...

Several have moved from Texas. Cathleen is from SC (Don, too?).

There will be plenty of grits afficianados before long. I'm not partial to them, but Mary loves good grits. She's picky about how they're cooked, though.

[PinoX7]

Oh, I love grits. And I'm afraid there won't be anybody in NH who knows what grits are...

they use to make us eat grits all the time in South Carolina, Parris Island

[cathleeninnh]

I worried about finding grits, but found them most grocery stores. No restaurants, though, and if you want any real hash browns you are SOL. They serve home fries with breakfast and if you order hash browns, you get those fried patties like McD's has.

The grits at the store are not always on the cereal aisle, but sometimes by the corn meal on the baking aisle.

Anything else?

Cathleen

[Lloyd Danforth]

Chitlins?

[cathleeninnh]

I have never bought chitlins, but I have made them. Certainly not here. Maybe one day we will have a farm with hogs and I can make some youngster do it for me. I have already lived long enough to not mind the health effects from eating them.

Cathleen