Lye
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Lye is the common name of various alkaline solutions, including soda lye and potash lye. Lyes are used as cleaning products, as ingredients in soapmaking, and in various other contexts.
Lye for sale in a shop in Hong Kong
A jar of homemade wood ash lye
A Finnish woman preparing a lutefisk or lye-cured fish
Lutefisk
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Lutefisk is dried whitefish, usually cod, but sometimes ling or burbot, cured in lye. It is made from aged stockfish, or dried and salted cod. The fish takes a gelatinous texture after being rehydrate
Lye
…canned mandarin oranges, lye rolls, century eggs, pretzels, candied pumpkins, and bagels. Lye is the curing agent and namesake of the traditional Nordic lutefisk, a type of preserved fish. They are also used as a tenderizer in the crust of baked Cantonese moon cakes, in "zongzi" (glutinous rice dumplings wrapped…
Lutefisk prepared to eat
Racks for drying fish in Svolvær, Norway
Fish drying in Svolvær, Norway
Dried fish