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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 4/15/2007, you wrote:
> They are also called bird peppers, but I've not
> seen any local birds eat them, we always have plenty.

The Saipan Boonie Pepper is called Donnie Salli (Not sure of the spelling) 
because there is a bird that will eat it and scatter the seeds.  THey are 
all over the place from Guam to Saipan, even on the edges of the cleared 
runways on Tinian.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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I am omnivagant.  
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eureka AT hctc.net wrote:

> I remember when I was a kid someone told me if you put 
> wood ash on any pepper it would make the pepper hotter. As 
> I recall I tried this and the bell peppers were definitely 
> warmer in flavor. Does anyone have any knowledge of this?
>  
?  Interesting

> Although we don't have much winter we do have enough ash 
> with which to do something. I'm wondering what everyone 
> else does with their ash?
I'm preparing at this moment to spread some after lunch around fruit 
trees, before it rains.

I read a suggestion for processing urine by allowing it to percolate 
through straw laced with ash.  The nitrate bacteria are such alkalinity 
lovers, so there might be something to this idea.

> I also know ash is used in making soap 
> although I haven't attempted that yet. Suggestions?
>  
I made some homemade lye once, and it burned my tongue (though not very 
injuriously).  Ordinary wood ash water from the leachate is a potassium 
carbonate solution.  It can be dried and used to leaven baked goods.  To 
make it into lye, add a pinch of hydrated lime to the wood ash water, 
but not too much, because the unused calcium really ruins soap.  For 
soap making, the lye has to boiled down until an egg will float, as they 
say, but it's safer to do the concentrating before you add the hydrated 
lime, because the final product is so caustic.  Also, don't use an 
aluminum pan.

Bill
S. Oregon coast