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

[Olwen the Odd]

>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

OK...I'm sissyspoiledlame.
But the two of you are hysterical!
Olwen