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[Helen]

hi all from Anne-Marie

re: cootie control in cooked barley with raw eggs...

didnt I mentiion that the barley is refrigerated the whole time until its
cooked? Barley on its own, once cooked makes one of the best bacterial
growth mediums there is. Add raw eggs, and its asking for trouble!
Fortunately the bags fit nicely in a cooler.

- --AM

At 11:36 AM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
>> 
>> you cook the barley in the milk, I believe (deleted the orignian message,
>> sorry!)
>> stir the raw eggs into the cooled cooked barley, bag it up. the heating
>> process will cook the eggs and you wont get scrambled eggs.
>> --AM
>
>Presumably the vegetable broth is mixed with the milk before cooking. Do
>we need to emphasize that the cooked barley should be cooled until
>_cold_ before the raw egg is stirred in? We don't want anything that
>might be in those eggs to have a chance to incubate for more than an
>hour, maximum. I'm sure most of us realize this, but we prolly ought not
>to take it for granted.  
>
>Adamantius, troublemaker par excellence
>-- 
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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