How to Make Lye

WiNaDeYo · 10-16-2008, 01:44 PM

Yes!!!
My grandmother used to make make lye soap and prepare "homony" (that's what dried corn soaked in lye water is called) at the same time, usually in the winter when they would slaughter the pigs (using the pig's fat, hoofs, ears, bones, whatever) for the soap.
Homony has to be rinsed really well 3-4 times before cooking and eating it. I sure did love it! I've got how to make it written down somewhere around here...I'll have to look.
Years ago you could still buy it in cans at the grocery store (NC, USA).

Have you all never eaten corn nuts? It's fried homony!

10-16-2008, 01:44 PM	#8
WiNaDeYo Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Lombardy, Italy Posts: 222	Re: How to Make Lye Yes!!! My grandmother used to make make lye soap and prepare "homony" (that's what dried corn soaked in lye water is called) at the same time, usually in the winter when they would slaughter the pigs (using the pig's fat, hoofs, ears, bones, whatever) for the soap. Homony has to be rinsed really well 3-4 times before cooking and eating it. I sure did love it! I've got how to make it written down somewhere around here...I'll have to look. Years ago you could still buy it in cans at the grocery store (NC, USA). Have you all never eaten corn nuts? It's fried homony!