[Sca-cooks] A mystery ingredient in a soap recipe

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius at verizon.net
Wed Sep 24 20:42:32 PDT 2003


Also sprach Terry Decker:
>What language is the recipe in?  Aluminic casini does not properly fit
>Italian or Latin.
>
>I will point out that "casini" is an alternate form of "cassino" as in Monte
>Cassino, which means "casini" could be translated as "from the region or
>town of Cassino."
>
>Bear
>
>>In a soap recipe people are trying to figure out what "aluminic casini" is.
>>Taken literally it would translate as "little aluminum houses" which would
>>perhaps make sense if there were a form of aluminum that was maufactured
>>into little house shapes of some sort and sold in that form.  But that
>still
>>wouldn't explain the actual chemical content of aluminic casini.
>>
>  >Any ideas or places to look?

I just spoke to a friend (a chemist) who suspects it's aluminic 
caseinate (IOW, named in that it somehow pertains to cheese).

Can anybody tell us the date for this soap recipe?

Adamantius



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