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

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

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.

CorwynWdwd at aol.com <CorwynWdwd at aol.com> wrote:
>>>>  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....

Cadoc wrote:
>>>  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....

'Lainie wrote:
>>  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!

"Wanda Pease" <wandap at hevanet.com> wrote:
>POTS! WOOL!! Teaspoons.   What a bunch of effete wimps!  WE used to cook our
>  rice by rubbing it briskly between two sticks while standing knee deep in
>  the water we gathered it from.  None of these new fangled domesticated
>  animals around.  We had to fight the wild beasts just to get to the stuff!

Whoa! Whoa! Stop da muzik! Stop da muzik!

What's this fire stuff?

We had to go out and eat the grains raw off the stalks in the fields.

Og