[Sca-cooks] Ancient olive oil use

[Terry Decker]

It occurs to me that this might have been an application for the olive oil 
lees, rather than the pure oil.  Why waste oil if the by-products will work?

Cato (referenced in Pliny) provides a number of uses for the processed lees 
including axle grease and lee steeped wood for smokeless fires.

Bear

> Olive oil was used to fire metalworking furnaces 4000 years ago in Cyprus
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060309/sc_nm/cyprus_olives_dc_1;_ylt=An_Mtiqq_3wG6evokWOwdPxg.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--
>
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net