Subj : Pancakess
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Oct 27 2024 19:35:30
Hi Dave,
DD> I'm sure some will try to "step up" but it will be tough as they don't
DD> have the assortment of huge pots that Les used. Many of them were
DD> large, repurposed aluminum pressure canneers. Like this 10+ gallon one
DD> -
DD>
https://tinyurl.com/CHILLI-POT
DD> He had three like that and some smaller - but not much smaller ones.
DD> Sara will likely donate them to Habitat for Humanity.
RH> No chance she would donate one to you? I've got a 12 qt Revere Ware
RH> stainless steel that we bought out in in AZ and a 24 qt boiling water
RH> bath canner but even the latter is a couple of gallons short of 10.
RH> Don't know which daughter will lay claim to them eventually.
DD> If I asked she probably would. But, I'm not going to ask. I've got a
DD> nice stainless steel stock pot with a thick bottom which will make a
DD> nice size batch of chilli. And has, on occasion, done seafood gumbo
DD> and other soupy things. But, at 82 I'n not the dynamo tha Les was and
DD> I'm winding down a lot of things.
I understand. I'm younger than you and at one time I would have jumped
at the chance to get a big pot like that. I've slowed down a lot,
especially the last 10 years, not doing as much putting up or huge batch
cooking any more. It's still fun to do jams or preserves every few
years; Steve is the main consumer of them so a batch will last a good
while. Hate to see the figs on the tree go to waste so we will pick them
and use them in various things but not going out to buy bushels of
produce.
DD> We had real maple sirup (that's the way the maker splled it) from
DD> Funk's Grove - just up the road from here.
RH> My parents knew several farmers who had sugar bushes. Then also, when
RH> he was in high school, for a few years my younger brother tapped some
RH> of the maple trees around our/our neighbor's (with his OK) property.
RH> First year or 2 mom boiled it down on the kitchen stove, then my
RH> brother got enough sap that dad took it outside to the gas grill. That
RH> came to a fast end when something (probably adding sap),spilled and
RH> caught fire. Dad put it out fast but the local fire department was also
RH> called in as a back up. Next year my brother was off to college and my
RH> parents went back to buying syrup.
DD> Is maple sap flammable? I don't know - but it seems a stretch.
It was; I didn't see the incident but heard about it.
DD> I still didn't care for it from the start, preferring another locally
DD> made sweetener - sorghum m olasses.
RH> Don't see too much of that around here.
DD> Sorghum is a close cousin of corn. We still have some family farmers
DD> who grow both syrup sorghum and popping sorghum - which is popped just
DD> like popcorn but tastes very different.
DD> I've made this recipe a couple of times. Good way to use up the excess
DD> oil from a pot of red chilli. I make it in larger quantity though
DD> using 3/4 cup tto 1 cup of sorghum kernels. But, I like to share.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, wonder if popping sorgum would affect Steve like regular
corn. I know he can consume sorgum in small quantities as he's used it
for a sweetener in his coffee from time to time.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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