SC - Re: "Official Books"

[Ann & Les Shelton]

Thanks for this information.

Sindara



>Hi Phillipa,
>
>First of all, if you bought rice or legumes (or flour) and they contain LIVE
>bugs - it means it has been stored for a while, since bugs do not "live" in
>those ingredients, they lay eggs there and that means that the eggs had time
>to mature.
>Second - bugs and bug eggs are not bad for your health, rather the contrary,
>they are just disgusting and un Kosher.
>Third - you probably know you should sort all legumes before using (and
>rice) - the reason not only bugs, legumes are picked from low shrubberies
>(sp?) and therefore small stones can be picked with them. Another special
>reason for US to sort the legumes is before Passover, to see that in legumes
>no grain of wheat is included (this is the reason why Ashkenazi Jews do not
>eat legumes on Passover). See story at the other letter about this subject.
>Method: Put a big sieve on your knees, and sit very close to the kitchen
>table. Spread your legumes on the kitchen table and transfer to the sieve by
>hand, checking to see stones, small leaves, and any other goodies the
>manufacturer saw fit to send to you. Then wash well and proceed as usual.
>
>Our very own cooking guru, Aharoni, says that when storing all legumes, rice
>and flour you need to put a few bay leaves in the box/can/jar and yes it
>needs to be a tight as possible. And that included flour for cakes - no
>flavor will be carried over to the final product. It seems the bugs hate the
>smell.
>Rina's method (of freezing) is also good however would depend on your
>freezer space.
>
>If you forgot to listen to mummy Rina or to daddy Aharoni and do have LIVE
>bugs, Odetta Danin says you put the infested ingredient in a wide AND HIGH
>bowl (see, Hindi, even old dogs can learn new tricks), and add a fistful of
>bay.
>leaves. After about an hour, you call to duty your strongest hearted kid and
>ask him to remove from the walls of the bowl the bugs that crawled out to
>run away from the bay leaves smell which as I said is offensive to them for
>some reason. Method: Put a glass of water beside bowl. Wet finger and run
>over walls of bowl. Dip in water. Repeat until walls are clean.
>
>On the same subject, while we are being gross, in Israel in the last years
>kids have a lot of head lice (and from what I know also in other countries).
>As a pharmacist it is my duty to inform you that all the products in the
>market are offensive (to the human being this time) and effective only for
>the very short term.
>HOWEVER the lice dislike the smell of rosemary - therefore the prudent
>parent will drop every now and then a few drops of rosemary oil behind the
>ears of his/her long haired daughter (with sons the suggestion is to make a
>marine-style haircut).
>
>If the lice do appear - do not run to your neighborhood pharmacist to buy
>those strong medications and shampoos.
>First - shampoo (prefer a shampoo that contains rosemary oil).
>Comb wet hair first with regular and then with a fine tooth comb.
>Now apply a very generous amount of a conditioner that contains rosemary oil
>(the purpose of the conditioner it to loosen the glue that sticks the eggs
>to the hair) and again comb with a fine tooth comb.
>Repeat frequently, first once a day, then twice a week and then for
>prevention at least once a month.
>
>My Grandmother Says Corner: at my grandmother's time - of course no such
>things as conditioners were available - so she used to put MAYO on the hair,
>again as a lubricant to loosen the glue of the eggs. And also margarine or
>oil can be used.
>But then you need to shampoo again to remove the margarine from the hair.
>
>All things in this letter have been checked by me personally. What can I
>say, I feel now like I am a descendant of the Adams family or a relative of
>Freddie Kruger.
>
>Larry, since at my student days I used to be a waitress, and at a five star
>hotel, I can only say you don't even know how right you are about commercial
>kitchens.
>
>Raya
>
>
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