United States or Norfolk Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Their houses are high, and neatly and well made" some, placed on posts of stone, served as sleeping-apartments; other houses were built on the ground, and in them the cooking and other work was done. They had other large buildings that served as arsenals for all in common, wherein the large boats and the covered canoes were kept. "These were very spacious, broad, and high, and worth seeing."
Each man took it in turn to be the tent "cook" for one day, and one writes: "The word 'cook' is at present rather a misnomer, for whilst we have a permanent galley no cooking need be done in the tent.
The sergeant dipped in his can, but he drew it back in a great hurry, exclaiming, "Why, it's at boiling heat!" We hurried up, and found that such was indeed the case. As the water had a peculiar taste, we agreed not to use it for cooking, lest it might have some pernicious effect; so the sergeant had a considerable distance to go before he could get down to fill his can.
Do you know about housework, about cooking?" "It's very good of you to put it in that way," said Kate Sencerbox. "We just do know about it, and perhaps that's all, at present. But we're Yankees, and we mean to know." "And you would like to experiment with me?" "Well, it wouldn't be altogether experiment, from the very beginning," said Bel.
As still more prisoners came in, neither bread nor mush could be furnished them, and a part of the detachments received their rations in meal. Earnest solicitation at length resulted in having occasional scanty issues of wood to cook this with. My detachment was allowed to choose which it would take bread, mush or meal. It took the latter. Cooking the meal was the topic of daily interest.
"I don't wish for any of your apples they are too green, though they may do for cooking. You would be most likely to sell them in some of these houses." "Well, now, I vown! I never thought of that! jest's likely's not I mought, you!" exclaimed the fellow, brightening up.
The lazy Singhalese or Tamil men lying half asleep upon the ground, the women, semi-nude, cooking fish over a brazier in the open air, and a group of naked children playing in the roadway, form a common tableau in this quarter of the town. Every necessity seems to be provided for by the salubrity of the climate and the spontaneity of the soil.
Lime-juice and other anti-scorbutics were frequently served out: a precautionary measure which originated in Cook's day, and which down to our own times has caused all British sailors to be popularly known as "lime-juicers" in the American Navy. The dietary scale and the cooking were subjects of careful thought.
The proposition of pickling a limited number of eggs and selling them for "cooking" purposes, explaining just what they are, ought to offer something of a solution, although, to the writer's knowledge, it has not been done. Improved Methods of Marketing Farm-Grown Eggs. The loss to the farmers of this country from the careless handling of eggs is something enormous.
The mother, seeing that he was determined to go, made a whole quiver full of arrows for him, and off he started. When he came to the old witch's hut, she was nowhere to be seen, so he pushed the door in and entered. The witch was busily engaged cooking dinner. "Why, my dear grandchild, you are just in time for dinner. Sit down and we will eat before you continue your journey."
Word Of The Day