[Sca-cooks] Freeze-drying and prunes

[Sandra Kisner]

>Peruvian Indians are reported (no, I don't remember the source) to have used
>this technique on potatoes.  They would leave the taters outside at night to
>freeze, and then tread on them to push out the liquid.  (Ow! OW!  Think of
>stepping on pebbles!  They must have had the hardest feet!)
>Devra the Baker

     I think I remember seeing this in a National Geographic, though I have no idea whatsoever what year it was.

>>	  It's funny how companies have caught on to this dislike of the
>>word "prune".  I now see prunes in the grocery store marketed as "dried
>>plums".  Evidently they sell much better that way.  The word prune does
>>conjure up visions of constipated elderly persons.
>
>Ah, but to some of us who watch way too much sci-fi on TV, prune juice
>is a warrior's drink.
>
>(You know, I wonder about that. How much _did_ prune juice sales go up
>after Worf started drinking the stuff?)
>
>Alban

       Unfortunately for Michael Dorn (the actor who played Worf), apparently people bring it to him at conventions.  He has to tell them that *Worf* likes prune juice, but he doesn't.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu