[Northkeep] Nasty smells (Was: Winterkingdom - a word from the autocrats)

[Pukhta 'Pooky' Lovtsevich]

It was Gouda and Ritzy?

I'm such a Wise-cracker...


Respect and Loving Gratitude,
Pookie


"Love's lifelight dispels all shadows upon the path grown over with truth."
~ Pooky



On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Rick Drake <ainarm at cox.net> wrote:

> Wow.....what an email to be reading while eating soft cheese and crackers
> for breakfast.....
>
> Ainar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: northkeep-bounces+ainarm=cox.net at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:northkeep-bounces+ainarm=cox.net at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
> Marc Carlson
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:57 PM
> To: List Northkeep
> Subject: [Northkeep] Nasty smells (Was: Winterkingdom - a word from the
> autocrats)
>
>
> Actually, Your Excellency, I don't think Herself has ever objected to the
> smell of melting resin.
> Melting resin has a nice piney fragrance overlaying the mild fragrance of
> turpentine off-gassing.
> To be accurate, I believe it was the actual rendering of tallow in her rice
> pot that she was
> unhappy about.
>
> Rendering tallow can smell like a lit of different things.  If you are
> using
> fresh tallow, you
> get a fatty/waxy smell (although if you are using the fat near the kidney,
> it can faintly smell
> of ammonia).  If you are using cooked fat to make the tallow, the smell of
> rending baked
> blood is highly noticeable (and objectionable to people raised around beef
> for some reason).
>
> She has also expressed a distaste for the wholesome, earthy smell of
> cadaverine emitted
> from cleaning aged adipocere from inside bovine femurs, but there's no
> accounting for
> tastes.
>
> M/D
>
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