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

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/14/2005 11:49:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lcm at jeffnet.org writes:
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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The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be 
governed by men worse than themselves. -- Plato  


You're right, I DID have the luxury of fire.... I feel so spoiled <G>

Good one guys....::snicker::

Did I mention that I was cooking over a fire because even thought there was a 
kitchen onsite, we were afraid to go into it because the floor almost gave 
way under just my weight, it was rotten or termite eaten or something, they 
hadn't maintained it.

I think the autocrat wanted to show us what events were like back in the 
day... I KNOW he thought people were spoiled in their sites <G>.

Corwyn


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