Can I make curry paste with powder and water?

[Cory Ander]

...I should have said that, if you're planning to store the paste, you should make a slurry of it in vinegar rather than water.....sorry 

[Stephen Lindsay]

The motto is:

If you need to act in haste
Put together a little paste
Of curry powder in water
You really know you oughta

But never hurry
A slurry
When making a
Special curry

Take care assembling your spices
To make your curry the nicest

by the bard William William Topaz McGonagall on the final visit to his favourite curryhouse The Raj Mahal, circa 1902