[Sca-cooks] Olwen's Rice (was OOPS! 12th Night Feast)

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 05:23 PM 1/14/2005, you wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:52:43 EST, CorwynWdwd at aol.com <CorwynWdwd at aol.com> 
>wrote:
> > In a message dated 1/13/2005 11:59:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:
> > Funny you Corwyn.  I don't have a stove either.  I only have butaine fueled
> > burners.  I went through 5 cans of butaine.
> > YOU had butaine??!! I had a fire in a stone grill. I can keep this up 
> and not
> > even stretch the truth I bet... <G> Thank God for stainless steel and soap,
> > the enamel pot would never have taken the abuse....
>
> > Corwyn
>
>Fire!?  Luxury!  Where I came from we all gathered round the pot and
>rubbed it with wool and hoped the friction brought it up to heat!  Took
>4 days to boil a pot of rice that way and we all died of hunger or burns 
>in the
>process....
>
>Cadoc

Pots! You were lucky! When I was growing up, we thought pots were a luxury! 
We had to cook our rice in teaspoons, a grain at a time, and then we all 
died of beri-beri because we didn't have the vitamin-enriched rice that you 
ungrateful whipper-snappers have today!

'Lainie
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