On Jul 12, 11:16 pm, Cape Cod Bob >
wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2007 16:30:02 GMT, Bert Hyman > wrote:
>
> () wrote in
> oups.com:
>
> >> How about the caustic soda used as a cardboard softener?
>
> >"Lutefisk is made from air-dried whitefish (normally cod, but ling is
> >also used), prepared with lye, in a sequence of particular
> >treatments. The first treatment is to soak the stockfish in cold
> >water for five to six days (with the water changed daily). The
> >saturated stockfish is then soaked in an unchanged solution of cold
> >water and lye for an additional two days."
>
> Lye is also used to turn corn into hominy and hominy grits and in
> olives.

Also in forming the nice brown crust on pretzels, unless one's legal
team forbids it.<g>

Scene 9 of Pretzel Logic

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Seaso...tzel_tran.html