Sometimes baking soda or slaked lime is also added.
Limestone was baked in retorts as part of the process to make slaked lime.
At the end of the summer, large quantities of eggs were packed in slaked lime for the winter.
The binding agent used to join the blocks is yet to be identified, although natural resins or slaked lime have been suggested.
The roof of the Garden House was built using only bricks and slaked lime with no steel and wood.
A kiln adjacent to the railway line was used to produce slaked lime for the agricultural trade and a small amount of cement.
The turmeric is dried and powdered with a bit of slaked lime, which turns the rich yellow powder into a red color.
It is made by treating slaked lime with concentrated sodium hydroxide solution.
Mixed with two parts of slaked lime, orpiment is still very commonly used in rural India as a depilatory.
A mixture of Borax and slaked lime, mixed with water into a fine paste, served this purpose.