[Sca-cooks] Ancient rice pudding used as mortar for walls

[Anne]

No, they BUILT the wall with fruitcake.  Rice pudding was the mortar ...  :)

Juliane Rose


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:58:37 -0500, Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> > http://tinyurl.com/3wl6l
> >
> > Rice Pudding used as mortar in ancient Chinese fortifications (confirmed
> > through scientific analysis) and maybe also in the Great Wall (oral
> > history to be confirmed).
> >
> > Sharon
> > gordonse at one.net
> 
> Are they sure they didn't confuse it with fruitcake?
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
> Blacksmith's credo.
> 
> If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
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