Good old google searches - I tried searching on "lye pit" and got some
particularity macabre results!
Amongst the chaff was a site suggesting if you pit bbq something you then
need to remove the wood ashes or else risk producing a lye pit if the pit
fills with water - apparently the resultant mixture will "remove the meat
from the bones of small animals, severely burn large ones and kill all the
vegetation in a 10' radius"
I quote from http://www.barbecuen.com/faqs/deeppit.htm !!
Otherwise, could lye pits have some use on a tanning site (softening hides
or something?)
Regards,
Emily
DURHAM Brian
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Clever, I got the same off google, but what is it?
I had a conversation with some Norwegians in Kilkenny Castle last year, and
they could not explain it either, but they knew that they eat fish that has
been soaked in it, apparently the fish goes like jelly. I think it may be
an alkali formed by wetting wood ash, i.e a component of potassium
hydroxide.
Incidentally Norwegians also bury fish in the ground before eating it, call
it gravlaks, I'd be interested to know if that is done anywhere that leaves
records in an intelligibel language
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Lye is a mordant for dyeing, you can preserve olives in a weak lye
solution.
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Dear All
Has anyone ever come across the term lye pit, or know what they are?
Many thanks
Nigel
Nigel Pratt
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