[Sca-cooks] Walms?

Laura C. Minnick lcm at efn.org
Tue Jul 15 11:26:45 PDT 2003


At 07:08 AM 7/15/03 -0500, you wrote:
>The (paraphrased) OED defines a walm as "making waves" and a "period of
>boiling."  So I would suggest that "a half dozen walms" is an instruction to
>bring the liquid to a boil, remove it from the heat until it stops boiling,
>then return it to the heat and bring it back to a boil for a total of six
>boils.

Or stirring it down and returning to a boil? Would that work?

'Lainie
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