[Sca-cooks] Corn Bread

Craig Jones. craig.jones at airservices.gov.au
Thu Jul 5 18:57:32 PDT 2001


>In a message dated 7/5/01 3:22:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, spynnere at juno.com
>writes:
>
>>    As far as white potatoes go, there was an Englishman who started
>>  growing them in 1619, somewhere in the British Isles as a form of
>>  welfare, both to provide them with work as well as food.  This scheme,
>>  I'm sure, is related to other schemes at the time involving straw hat
>>  plaiting and knitting, to help poor people.
>>
>>     Elizabeth
>
>Wasn't potatoes grown in Rus earlier to make that oh-so prized drink that we
>called Vodka or was that later?
>
>Misha

As far as I'm aware a vast majority of vodka was distilled from (and still is)
wheat grain.

Drakey.




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