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  • From: "Lisa Rollens" <rollens@fidnet.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wood Ashes
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:54:01 -0600

I used wood ashes to make hominy last year with an old recipe. It worked and was good! The ashes aren't used to make lye, the corn is soaked and cooked in ash water, as the first step.

Lisa, in the MO Ozarks, USA


----- Original Message ----- From: "Norris Thomlinson" <scrub@corrupt.net>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wood Ashes


Hi Scott-

Anyone know of any uses for wood ashes?? Besides lye soap and used to
sweeten or alkalinize the soil.

I've come across references to use of wood ash lye in preparing corn, to
prevent the vitamin deficiencies caused by a diet high in corn. It's the
same idea as using lime with the corn--but wood ash (especially or maybe
only? from hard woods) is another way to process it. The wood ash lye is
created by leaching water through the ashes. I don't know whether or not
the process is identical to that for preparing lye for soap.

Hope that helps!

Norris Thomlinson
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