[Sca-cooks] Period gifts in jars
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Fri Nov 26 20:53:47 PST 2004
> --- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:
>
>> Did
>> y'all know that they used to use gunpowder to test the proof? ;o)
>>
> Gunpowder? Please, tell me more. I'm intrigued.
>
> William de Grandfort
As I recall, you need 90 proof or better to burn hot enough to light off the
gunpowder. Or as Khlit the Cossack said of such things, "Bah! In my day we
poured corn liquor on the powder to make it burn hotter." (After he spat
whiskey in the touch holes of a fort's guns to clear the way for an
assault.)
Bear
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