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Old 09-12-2002, 05:05 AM
Alan Gould
 
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Default Cleaning fleece

In article , Alan Holmes alan@holmes-
g4crw.freeserve.co.uk writes
I've often wonderes what a neat is?

In this context a neat is any bovine animal - ox, cow, bull etc.

And how do you extract the oil from it's feet?

Neat's foot oil is rendered from the boiled bones, e.g. as in cow-heel
jelly. The practice was suspended during the BSE crisis.
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.