Does anyone have any good recipes using lye?!
Does anyone have any good recipes using lye?
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What?
Lye is a chemical found in DRAINO and hair relaxers!
Assuming that your not talking about making crystal meth in your garage, there are tons of good soap making recipes; I've listed some links below. Hope that helps.
Corned beef and swiss is great on rye.
The only two things I know you make with lye are Lutafisk. (A traditional Scandinavian dish prepared by soaking air-dried cod in a lye solution for several weeks before skinning, boning, and boiling it, a process that gives the dish its characteristic gelatinous consistency.) Mmmm...tasty, no?
And Hominy. Hominy refers to corn without the germ. It is served both whole or ground. Hominy is boiled until cooked and served as either a cereal or as a vegetable.The pioneers prepared hominy by soaking the kernels in a weak wood-based lye until the hulls floated to the surface.
Bon Appetit!
Lye is used in making soap...
*Pure Soap: This is the only recipe I've discovered that remains scent-free without adding fragrance to the recipe. This soap is a bit too harsh for bath soap, but great for cleaning, washing dishes, delicate laundry, etc. Has a great lather and no fragrance.
16oz coconut oil, 2.8 oz lye, 1c water. Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F. Estimated tracing time 1 1/2 hrs, time in molds 48 hours. Age 3 weeks.
lye is used in green olives..
Lye-Cured Green Olives
Instructions
Use olives that are mature but still green. Purchase Iye in the "cleanser" section of your grocery store.* Rinse the olives with water and place them in large glass or porcelain jars; then determine how much lye solution you need to cover the amount of olives you have. Add a solution that has been mixed at the ratio of 1 quart water (at 65 to 70 degrees F.) to 1 tablespoon Iye. Soak 12 hours.
Drain olives; then soak 12 more hours in fresh Iye solution. Drain and rinse. Cut into the largest olive; if the Iye has reached the pit, the Iye cure is complete. Rinse again and soak in cold water. (Usually two Iye baths are enough for the small Mission olives seen in specialty produce stores.) If one more bath is necessary, soak in fresh lye solution for 12 more hours; then drain and rinse with cold water. Soak the olives in fresh, cold water, changing the water three (or more) times a day for the next three days. At the end of three days, taste an olive to make sure that there is no trace of lye flavor remaining.
Next, soak the olives for at least one day in a brine solution mixed at the ratio of 6 tablespoons salt to 1 gallon water. The olives are now ready for eating. Store the rest in the brine solution in a cool, dark place, preferably the refrigerator, or marinate and store in the refrigerator. Use within two months.
* WARNING: Lye can cause serious burns. Keep lemon or vinegar handy to neutralize any lye that splashes onto the skin. If lye gets into your eyes, bathe them with running water and call your doctor. If lye is swallowed, call your doctor, drink milk or egg white, and do not induce vomiting.
Perfect for that last meal
Mix it up with some Mentholatum and spread it on toast. Mmmm!
what was that last drug you took?
My answer: You know what lye is, right?
My friend's answer: a recipe with LYE?!?! srsslee?!
My brother's answer: Lye is sodium hydroxide, and is extremely caustic. If you were to eat it, it would burn you. If you ate enough, you would experience death, loss of life, and not living anymore.
In addition to hominy and olives, as described above, lye water is used in producing hand-pulled noodles in Chinese cuisine. It gives the dough a toughness and springiness that keeps the dough from tearing apart.