[Sca-cooks] Re: Curry spices & rancid meat

[Decker, Terry D.]

Natron, rather than natrum, from the Greek nitron, hydrous sodium carbonate.
It is a salt commonly found crystallized with other salts.  It was used for
desiccating the body in Egyptian enbalming.

Bear

> The ancient
> Egyptians
> also used spices in making mummies, but natrum was at the
> bottom of that
> equation, and isn't that a salt?
>
>    Elizabeth