ash-water

Updated: May 5, 2025

Upon these ashes water is poured, which, filtrating through the hole in the bottom of the vessel, carries with it the potass contained in the ashes, and forms a very strong lye of the colour of strong beer: this lye they call sai-gee, ash-water. It is allowed to remain in this state for four days, during which it is stirred once or twice each day.

Mungo Park - The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805