SC - Strawberries

[david friedman]

At 4:01 PM -0600 6/18/97, Jamey R. Lathrop wrote:

>	"Conradus Gesner reporteth, he knew a woman that was cured of the
>pimples on her face, onely by washing it with Strawberrie-water:  and yet
>it was very homely and rudely distilled, betwixt two platters, and not in
>a limbeck."

Now that is interesting. I strongly suspect it is the same low tech
distillation method described in the _Ain I Akbari_--and some modern living
in the wilderness book I read.

Take a reasonably convex bowl and a flatter bowl. Put your liquid in the
former. Put a rock in the middle. On the rock put a cup. Cover the convex
bowl with the flatter bowl, also with the convex side down. Fill the
flatter bowl with cold water.

 Heat the liquid. The vapors condense on the bottom of the flatter bowl,
run down to its low point at the middle, and drip off into the cup sitting
below it on the rock in the middle of the convex bowl. Voila--distillation
without a still.



David/Cariadoc
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