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 Lye roll
Lye rolls are a baked specialty in Germany, especially in Bavaria and Swabia.
Lye rolls are a vital ingredient for the traditional Bavarian snack Leberkassemmel.
The same lye solution is also used for preparing Brezen; outside of Germany, the only baked food being commonly glazed with this solution is the pretzel.
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/L/Lye-roll.htm   (157 words)

  
 Lye Soap and homemade concoctions
Add the lye water to the fat and cook for 2 hours.
When container which holds the lye water is warm, add the fat and stir until cool.
The water will start heating up once the lye is added, due to a chemical reaction.Afterwards, pour the lye solution into the fat, once again stirring slowly.
http://farmgal.tripod.com/lyesoapconcoctions.html   (1692 words)

  
 Making lye soap
Then we added the lye, reached for the wooden spoon to stir it, and...
Acid, such as vinegar or cola, tends to neutralize it, but vinegar and cola are quite weak, and it would take a lot, like a quart, to neutralize a tablespoon of lye.
We asked the teacher for a large pot, large enough to hold a gallon of water, with room to add the fat and stir it.
http://www.magma.ca/~rechlin/burn/lye-soap.html   (1223 words)

  
 MAKING LYE SOAP THE ARKANSAS WAY
As the mixture came to a boil, it was stirred with a wooden paddle until it thickened.
For each gallon of lye that was poured into the pot, two pounds of rendered grease was added.
The soap was then poured into a container that would not be eaten away or rusted by the lye in the soap.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/arkansas/77779   (548 words)

  
 Cooks.com - Recipes - Lye Corn
pot: Boil in the lye water until the husks...
Nothing is more sublime than the taste of the first fresh corn of the season...
Boil a gallon of dry field corn (white or yellow) in...
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,lye_corn,FF.html   (110 words)

  
 Lye to Fat Ratio Table
Calculate the amount of lye you need by multiplying the amounts of each fat (including superfatting oil) in your recipe by the number intersected by the fat and your desired excess fat column.
Then add the different lye amounts for the different fats in your recipe together.
For the soap to be made with no left over lye or fat you must have very accurate measuring equipment.
http://waltonfeed.com/old/soap/soaptabl.html   (691 words)

  
 May 1997 Soap Making Traditional Methods Lye Rain Water Wood Ash
Lye water made from wood ashes or pot ash powder, is not as easy to work with, as lye made from caustic soda.
When the brown lye water stops coming out of the barrel, or ash container, then pour four to five pints (2½ to three litre) of soft water through the ashes, collecting the lye which comes out in a separate "safe" container (as this lye may be weaker than the first lot).
To give you an idea of how much lye water you will need overall, twelve pounds of clean rendered beef tallow (4.4 kg or -13 pints or nearly thirty cups of melted tallow) needs about 20 gallons of lye water (96 litre =160 pints) to completely make soap.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/paul_norman_3/soapmake.htm   (5772 words)

  
 Soapmaking: free soap recipes & directions.
When lye, water and fat first combine, the mixture is thin and watery.
If you add lye to *really* cold water, the lye/water might not reach the high temperatures required to make some recipes.
Children, pets and feeble-minded people should not be in the soapmaking area or have access to stored soapmaking ingredients, especially lye and essential oil.
http://hometown.aol.com/oelaineo/directions.html   (2341 words)

  
 How to Use the MMS lye calculator - Candletech
If you used the amount of lye that is on the 0% row, that would mean you are using enough lye to fully saponify ALL the fats in your recipe.
You can also add things at trace that don't affect the lye amount.
Some people use a lower discount if they are adding ingredients after trace, like heavy cream.
http://www.candleclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1977   (820 words)

  
 Noah's Ark: Lye Safety Precautions
When mixing lye with water, always add lye to the water, not the other way around.
Never reuse lye containers, stirring spoons or molds for other purposes.
If you accidentally get lye on your skin, flush the area with ordinary vinegar and wash well with soap and water.
http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Soap/Lye_Safety.html   (265 words)

  
 Lye Coat of Arms
Lye Coat of Arms / Family Crest Coffee Mug
Lye Coat of Arms / Family Crest Key-chain
Lye Coat of Arms / Family Crest T-Shirt
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/lye-coat-arms.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Cold Process Soap for One 12 oz Can of Lye
Using the stirring spoon (known to soap makers as the "crutch"), pour lye slowly into the ice and water, stirring until the lye is all dissolved.
When all is ready, begin to stir the liquid fat in a clockwise direction while pouring the lye water into it in a thin steam (pencil size or thinner) until it is all added.
Crutch (stir) the mix vigorously, using “S” pattern or use a hand blender alternating with a circular pattern until the mix begins to cool and thicken.
http://waltonfeed.com/old/soap/soapgwil.html   (717 words)

  
 Difference in lye brands?
I was wondering if there was a difference in the brands of lye available.
I have heard of Draino, Red devil, and have seen a few other brands at the supermarket.
Feel free to pass along any dehairing recipes.
http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/BeginnersArticles/991DBBC275.html   (309 words)

  
 Lye
Lye was used to bleach, to soften, and to scour, and to dissolve unwanted bits of adhering materials (flesh or fat from hides during tanning, for instance).
Lye was locally made from various and sundry caustic ingredients, including fowl droppings, human urine, wood ash, and powdered limestone, mixed down with rainwater to desired strength.
The thing we were all warned about not to drink as children, major component in modern drain openers and indispensable material to medieval tanners, linen finishers, and innumerable other trades.
http://www.octavia.net/9thclife/Lye.htm   (84 words)

  
 Making Lye Soap
Bring your 2-liter bottle to me and I will pour in 250 ml of lye.
Stock beakers of each will be in a 50 degree Celsius water bath (122 Fahrenheit).
If you do, you will notice a strange taste in your mouth.
http://www.drwhitey.com/AP/Chap2/LyeSoap.htm   (435 words)

  
 [MR] Quick Lime (Lye)
Soap makers want *lye* to combine with fats or oils and "soaponify" into a salt--otherwise known as soap.
The easiest way to get lye for soapmaking is to buy a can of Red Devil lye in the supermarket next to the Draino products.
One of these days I'd like to try my hand at making lye water from ashes.
http://www.atlantia.sca.org/pipermail/atlantia/2001-May/001027.html   (364 words)

  
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Also be aware that lye and water get really hot, so you shouldn't use a plastic container, as it can actually get hot enough to melt through it.
Once you have your fats selected the amount of lye needed will be shown from 0% excess fat to 10% excess fat.
It is good to have a little extra fat in the soap for two reasons: 1) it ensures that all the lye is used up, and 2) it ensures that all the lye is used up.
http://www.gristle.to/markup/saponification   (894 words)

  
 lye on Encyclopedia.com
Lye should be used with caution as it is caustic and poisonous.
It originally meant a solution of potassium carbonate (potash) prepared by leaching wood ashes with water, but now the name also means a solution of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
Lye is also used to refer to the undissolved solute.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/l1/lye.asp   (233 words)

  
 Lye - Unipedia
Lye is the name of a small town in between Dudley and Stourbridge in the Black Country, Dudley Metropolitan Borough, West Midlands, England.
Lye is a commune of the Indre département, in France
Lye is an alternative name for the chemicals sodium hydroxide (soda lye) or (less commonly) potassium hydroxide (potash lye).
http://www.unipedia.info/Lye.html   (188 words)

  
 VPS: Lye Soap
Soap in the 18th century was made by mixing lye with a fat or oil, depending on the resources of the maker.
The those making soap at home (or inexpensive soap for government contracts) would use tallow (rendered beef fat), while professional soap makers may use olive oil or the like.
Stay clean in the field the authentic way.
http://www.virginiapublicstore.com/accoutrements/soap.html   (80 words)

  
 Lye Soap
Lye Soap has been around for hundreds of years, but is hard to find nowadays.
Most of the soap in today's market is full of additives and other harmful ingredients.
So, take a trip back to a simpler time and use the natural soap that cleans everything!
http://www.lynnaes.com/lyesoap.html   (184 words)

  
 MMS - Lye Calculator
Majestic Mountain Sage's Lye Calculator™ is a tool for soapmakers to create new soap recipes.
Majestic Mountain Sage makes no claim on recipes, or resulting soap, that are created using the Lye Calculator™.
Select which type of lye you wish to use.
http://www.thesage.com/calcs/lyecalc2.php   (318 words)

  
 * Lye - (Beauty): Definition
When the lye reaches 100 degrees and the fats are 120 degrees, pour the lye into the fats and stir until it traces...
Also known as lye, it's a highly alkaline ingredient used in small amounts in cosmetics to modulate the pH of a product.
Mix lye and water and set aside to cool.
http://www.bestknows.com/beauty/lye.html   (199 words)

  
 LYE POTASH BATH SALTS DEAD SEA SALT ALAEA HAWAIIAN SALT CITRIC ACID - SNOWDRIFT FARM - Soapmaking Supplies
Snowdrift Farm offers a comprehensive list of fine ingredients used to make bath salts, fizzing bath bombs and powders, lye for bar soap and potassium hydroxide (potash) for liquid soaps and shampoos.
Make Your Own Bath Essentials: Sea Salts, Dendritic Salt, Potash, Lye and Citric Acid
IN 2 POUND, 10 POUND and 25 POUND INCREMENTS ONLY.
http://www.snowdriftfarm.com/dry.html   (791 words)

  
 HEALIN' HOLLERS Lye Soap
saponification, a process that mixes vegetable oils or animals fats together with a water solution of a strong alkali (lye).
As this natural soap dries and cures, it will shrink slightly and may turn more brown in color.
Many of these ingredients are the very things that dry skin and cause allergic reactions.
http://www.healin-hollers.com/soap.htm   (350 words)

  
 Farm Collector: Lye soap will clean a hide, and that's no lie: caustic soap favored by farm families. (It's all Trew).@ ...
Most frontier settlers built ashbins and collected fireplace and wood stove ashes to make lye for soap and other uses.
Even fewer know that lye is made by trickling water through wood ashes.
Repeated circulations of the fluid through the ashes make a stronger lye solution.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:98264996&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (214 words)

  
 Results – Effects of Lye on Maize Varieties
In flour corn the yield of grits was less for the lye treatment than for water, though the difference was not significant.
Ten replicates of each maize variety were boiled 30 minutes in lye, and control samples were boiled 30 minutes in water:
Results - Effects of Lye on Maize Varieties
http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/welch/maize/page7.htm   (112 words)

  
 Lye Soap
She, and yes, many times Grandpa too, would make their own lye solution from the burning of wood ash and leeching it thorough large cedar barrels.
While at MoSoap, we don't make our lye from scratch for these soaps, we do use the traditional ingredients to recreate these popular handmade soaps.
It's great for washing, poison ivy and some like it for very oily skin types.
http://www.mosoap.com/Traditional_Soap/Traditional_Ozark_Handmade_Soap.htm   (275 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: American Indians
Salt was used by many tribes, especially on the plains and in the South-West, but in the Gulf states lye was used instead.
Cannibalism simply for the sake of food could hardly be said to exist, but, as a war ceremony or sacrifice following a savage triumph, the custom was very general, particularly on the Texas coast and among the Iroquoian and Algonquian tribes of the east.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07747a.htm   (10210 words)

  
 Len Lye Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
There are also two very interesting documentaries about Lye - Flip and Two Twisters and Doodlin'.
Lye was a maverick, never fitting any of the usual art historical labels.
Lye utilised the process to combine existing black and white film footage and photostencils into brilliant colour imagery.
http://alienartifacts.com/encyclopedia/Len_Lye   (742 words)

  
 Katrina Lye
lard or other animal fat together with lye or potash (potassium hydroxide).
Upon investigating, I realized I had unearthed a treasure - Grandma's recipe for lye soap.
used to produce methamphetamine, including "lye, drain cleaner, iodine, battery acid, cold...
http://www.tsunamy.net/hurricane_katrina/6/katrina-lye.html   (575 words)

  
 'The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid'
Or N.W. (GPO, 1937) on the importance of addressing envelopes correctly, and in his war effort films such as When the Pie was Opened (1939), on coping with food shortages, and Kill or Be Killed (1942).
Roger Fry, the British art critic, was impressed.
Lye produced a number of large canvases, sometimes reworking his smaller pictures or batiks from the past.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/lye.html   (2631 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: West Midlands: Lye
The Lye, Black Country - Articles on the town's history.
Top: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: West Midlands: Lye
Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: West Midlands: Lye
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/West_Midlands/Lye   (73 words)

  
 Lye, Lies and New Ultra Clorox Bleach
DO NOT USE ULTRA CLOROX around pets (or children)!
Lye (sodium hydroxide) has always been an ingredient of these products and typically accounts for less than 1% of the volume.
While lye is used in making basic soaps, it is also very difficult to rinse off surfaces.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091100a.htm   (637 words)

  
 Lye Organ Company
Dozens of Lye's organs are still in regular use, many as he built them.
Together with his brothers Norman and Murray, William Lye continued the tradition of the old company, but also introduced new technology.
Lye built organs for over 60 churches and other clients in Toronto.
http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002128   (725 words)

  
 Auckland University Press: Len Lye: a biography -- Roger Horrocks
I have often used Lye's own words complemented by interviews with the people who were round him.
My task was to fill in the gaps (or as many as possible) and to present his personality in a way that was more rounded, more coherent, and more immediate.
Such polarised responses have at times helped to make the artist prominent in popular culture as well as high culture.
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup/books/lenlye.html   (2081 words)

  
 The wit of the wobble: Len Lye and the metaphysics of eccentricity
The profiles recall the skiagraphy that was popular in the eighteenth century, in which disturbingly simplistic conclusions about a person's character were expected to be reached on the basis of the shape of his or her head.
His treatment of the film was an endearing form of moving print-making, in which certain abstract traces dance on screen, almost like the protagonists of an opera.
All of Lye's work is strongly evocative, suggesting a deep substratum in the mind—a primitive section of the cortex which Lye called “the old brain”—that commands the body by instinct.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/lye_wit.html   (1066 words)

  
 AGNSW: Len Lye
“Len Lye’s theories and practice remained somewhat peripheral to the various avant-garde movements of the 20th century despite proximity to them and friendships with many of the protagonists.
Len Lye died in 1980, at the age of 78.
As an experimental filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and writer, Len Lye was a diverse, original, eccentric and celebrated artist.
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2002/len_lye   (913 words)

  
 Lye to pull double-duty at Allianz Championship - PGATOUR.COM
Lye will play in the Allianz Championship starting Friday.
Lye came through, finishing 1-under to tie for 27th.
Lye is taking a milder drug now and will be on it for another eight months.
http://www.golfweb.com/u/ce/multi/0,1977,6579493,00.html   (514 words)

  
 PGATOUR.com - Cancer puts Lye's playing career on hold
Now, Lye is very content to stay in the tower.
Their varied career comebacks, however, pale in comparison with what Lye has gone through this summer as his 50th birthday approached.
In seven years, from 1979 to 1985, he never was lower than 75th on the money list.
http://www.golfweb.com/story/5904022   (824 words)

  
 Queensland Art Gallery - Len Lye
Described as an artist for the twenty-first century, Len Lye was thought to be 'like a man from Mars who saw everything from a different viewpoint'.
Photograms Lye produced in New York in the late 1940s, enigmatic portraits of friends and associates including artist Georgia O'Keefe and writer W.H. Auden, are also featured.
Lye, well known for his remarkable innovations from 1920s to 1980, was a unique personality and an artist whose ideology was 'exploration' and 'transformation' in both life and art.
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/about_us/media/archived/2002/len_lye   (387 words)

  
 Soap Lye Calculator - GeraldGardner.Net
The water listed in the "Lye and Water" table is based in the desired strength of the lye solution and gives more control over the reaction of the lye with the fats.
ALWAYS add your lye to the water, do NOT add water to your lye.
DISCLAIMER : Lye is a dangerous substance, and though every effort has been made to ensure that the values calculated are correct you are using this at your own risk.
http://www.geraldgardner.net/soap/soaplyecalculator.aspx   (173 words)

  
 GolfDigest.com - An uneven Lye
Lye begins interferon treatment on Aug. 19, an intense four-week rehab involving intravenous injections five times a week.
After that, he will give himself home injections three times a week for 48 weeks and hope for the best.
He was supposed to work at next week's PGA Championship at Hazeltine Country Club in Chaska, Minn., but doctors advised against it.
http://www.golfdigest.com/newsandtour/insider/index.ssf?/newsandtour/insider/20020808ropes.html   (1270 words)

  
 The Golf Channel - Lye Injures Left Knee on Course - November 19, 2004
My knee locked and snapped and I went down,” Lye said.
Lye was fitted with an air cast and expects to make the 11-hour drive from Kiawah Island to Naples over a two-day trip, due to the pain.
Lye said doctors would not authorize an MRI since it was not considered an emergency, so he will have to wait until Monday when he can see his doctor in his home of Naples, Fla.
http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=15100&select=14925   (358 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/lye
Oh my god, I remember Brett from Aphasia and Purple Milk haha.
This diverse international fanbase ranges in age from thirteen to dead.
Lye draws from a number of musical styles and artistic influences, combining electronic music with grunge and dark progressive rock.
http://myspace.com/lye   (988 words)

  
 ATSDR - MMG: Sodium Hydroxide
Sodium hydroxide is caustic and is one of several alkaline compounds referred to as "lye." It is generally used commercially as either the solid or as a 50% aqueous solution and should be stored in a cool, dry, well ventilated location separate from organic and oxidizing materials, acids, and metal powders.
When dissolved in water or neutralized with acid, it liberates substantial heat, which may be sufficient to ignite combustible materials.
This page was updated on May 24, 2004
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MHMI/mmg178.html   (4879 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Lye takes lead in Greater Hickory Classic
Sometimes you need a reason to do well, and that's a pretty good reason for me to try to do well...
Lye came out strong with birdies on Nos.
Mark Lye hits his approach on the 14th hole during his first-round 66, earning him a slim lead.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/champions/2004-08-20-hickory-classic-first_x.htm   (589 words)

  
 Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Stomach flushing
In poisoning cases, stomach flushing should not be used if the poison is a strong corrosive acid (hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid), alkali (lye, ammonia), or a volatile hydrocarbon such as gasoline.
It is useful only if the patient has swallowed a life-threatening quantity of poison, and when the flushing can be done within 60 minutes of having swallowed the poison.
Stomach flushing should also not be done on patients who are having convulsions.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0012/ai_2601001296   (617 words)

  
 LYE Message Board (Powered by Invision Power Board)
LYE Official Website l LYE @ Myspace.com l LYE livejournal community
Post LYE show and EP reviews, live photos and press.
Join the LYE street team to post in this forum.
http://dirtyspirits.com/board/index.php?s=118becc00d465bae463146fa1b56f03b   (229 words)

  
 QBR.com [No Lye!]
She honors the head as a sacred place, describing her spiritual connection to hair that began while she was a full-time member of the a cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock.
No Lye also falls short as a ready reference because it does not include an index.
Despite the economic benefit that traditional beauty salons provided to African-American communities throughout history, Kinard writes, "...the foundation (author's emphasis) of beauty salons was the money that flowed from the use of thermal implements and chemicals to alter the natural state of black hair.
http://www.qbr.com/Html/Nolye.html   (838 words)

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