On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 6:28:54 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:26:48 -0800 (PST), "
> > wrote:
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> >On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 6:03:37 PM UTC-6, wrote:
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> >> Am indians used wood ashes to make hominy.
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> >Homemade lye is made from wood ashes and rain water.
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> I guess you're not an Am indian. That makes sense. You'd be walking
> aroung with a bow and arrows instead of a gun.
>
No, but I remember my dad telling me the rudiments of making lye and my mother
telling how they made homemade soap when she was a girl which used that lye.
'til her dying day soap was never referred to as a bar of soap, it was a
cake of soap.