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We've had problems with the computer, so it's taken me a couple of days
to post the following recipe for Woodlouse Sauce for fish. The original
book "Why not eat insects?2 was originally published in 1885, and gives
recipes and suggestions for eating just about every kind of garden pest.


" ... as the shrimp (crustaceans) in every garden namely the common
Wood-lice (Oniscus muriarius). I have eaten these, and found that, when
chewed, a flavour is developed remarkably akin to that so much
appreciated in their sea cousins. Wood-louse sauce is equal, if no
distinctly superior, to shrimp.

The following is the recipe: collect a quantity of the finest wood lice
to be found (no difficult task as they swarm under the bark of every
rotten tree), and drop them into boiling water which will kill them
instantly, but not turn them red, as might be expected. At the same
time put into a saucepan a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, a
teaspoonful of flour, a small glass of water, a little milk, some pepper
and salt, and place it on the stove. As soon as the sauce is thick,
take it off and put in the wood lice. This is an excellent sauce for
fish. Try it."

The little book has a suggested Menu for dinner, in both English and
French. It starts with slug soup and boiled cod with snail sauce. There
follow seven more dishes along similar lines.

The author, Vincent M Holt, says on page 31 "People will, in like
manner, enjoy oysters and cockles, while they abominate snails; they
will make themselves ill with indigestible and foul feeding lobsters
while they look with horror upon pretty clean-feeding caterpillars. All
this would not be so absurd if it were only the rich that were
concerned, for they can afford to be dainty. But while we, in these days
of agricultural depression, do all we can to alleviate the sufferings of
our starving labourers, ought we not to exert our influence towards
pointing out to them a neglected food supply?"


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We've had problems with the computer, so it's taken me a couple of
days
to post the following recipe for Woodlouse Sauce for fish. The
original
book "Why not eat insects?2 was originally published in 1885, and
gives
recipes and suggestions for eating just about every kind of garden
pest.


" ... as the shrimp (crustaceans) in every garden namely the common
Wood-lice (Oniscus muriarius). I have eaten these, and found that,
when
chewed, a flavour is developed remarkably akin to that so much
appreciated in their sea cousins. Wood-louse sauce is equal, if no
distinctly superior, to shrimp.

The following is the recipe: collect a quantity of the finest wood
lice
to be found (no difficult task as they swarm under the bark of every
rotten tree), and drop them into boiling water which will kill them
instantly, but not turn them red, as might be expected. At the same
time put into a saucepan a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, a
teaspoonful of flour, a small glass of water, a little milk, some
pepper
and salt, and place it on the stove. As soon as the sauce is thick,
take it off and put in the wood lice. This is an excellent sauce for
fish. Try it."

The little book has a suggested Menu for dinner, in both English and
French. It starts with slug soup and boiled cod with snail sauce.
There
follow seven more dishes along similar lines.

The author, Vincent M Holt, says on page 31 "People will, in like
manner, enjoy oysters and cockles, while they abominate snails; they
will make themselves ill with indigestible and foul feeding lobsters
while they look with horror upon pretty clean-feeding caterpillars.
All
this would not be so absurd if it were only the rich that were
concerned, for they can afford to be dainty. But while we, in these
days
of agricultural depression, do all we can to alleviate the sufferings
of
our starving labourers, ought we not to exert our influence towards
pointing out to them a neglected food supply?"


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April the 1st its not........In my books it says that you should only
ever roast slugs as if they are boiled etc a very nasty looking scum is
formed.

The woodlouse I would clean first.

With the caterpillars you have to make sure they don't have irritating
hairs or do not contain poisons

With the crustaceans again don't forget freshwater shrimps and daphnia.

Bell

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"SusieThompson" wrote in message
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We've had problems with the computer, so it's taken me a couple of days
to post the following recipe for Woodlouse Sauce for fish. The original
book "Why not eat insects?2 was originally published in 1885, and gives
recipes and suggestions for eating just about every kind of garden pest.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall would be proud of you! :-)

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

...
We've had problems with the computer, so it's taken me a couple of days
to post the following recipe for Woodlouse Sauce for fish. The original
book "Why not eat insects?2 was originally published in 1885, and gives
recipes and suggestions for eating just about every kind of garden pest.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall would be proud of you! :-)

I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

Mary

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In message , Mary Fisher
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I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

We once got a long, bright green caterpillar in with our bright green
Birds Eye frozen peas. The children were about 4 and 5 then - can you
imagine the consternation and then the glee? And the letter I wrote to
Birds Eye about the free protein they were putting in with their peas.
I seem to remember that finding half a caterpillar in school salads was
a fairly frequent occurrence ..........

Of course it's not April 1st, and the little book was written in all
seriousness. My edition is a 1978 reprint of the 1885 original. I
*think* that the original aim of the book can be neatly summed up in the
following excerpt -

"Yet in the country the poorer labourers and their families go on week
after week, attempting to keep body and soul together with nothing but
bread, varied, if possible, by the addition of a taste of bacon, while
hundreds of nutritious and wholesome snails and slugs swarm at night
upon the little cottage garden. Why this wanton and reckless waste of
food? Prejudice, foolish prejudice! Half the poor of England would
actually die of starvation before stretching out their hands to gather
the plentiful molluscus food which their neighbours in France delight
in."

I don't think I need to say anything more ......

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We've had problems with the computer, so it's taken me a couple of
days
to post the following recipe for Woodlouse Sauce for fish. The
original
book "Why not eat insects?2 was originally published in 1885, and
gives
recipes and suggestions for eating just about every kind of garden
pest.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall would be proud of you! :-)

I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year
old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

Why not indeed. We are very reserved when it comes to what we consider food
in this country.

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Of course it's not April 1st, and the little book was written in all
seriousness. My edition is a 1978 reprint of the 1885 original. I
*think* that the original aim of the book can be neatly summed up in the
following excerpt -

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall quoted from it on one of his TV shows and then
went on to make Woodlouse fritters.

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

"Yet in the country the poorer labourers and their families go on week
after week, attempting to keep body and soul together with nothing but
bread, varied, if possible, by the addition of a taste of bacon, while
hundreds of nutritious and wholesome snails and slugs swarm at night
upon the little cottage garden. Why this wanton and reckless waste of
food? Prejudice, foolish prejudice! Half the poor of England would
actually die of starvation before stretching out their hands to gather
the plentiful molluscus food which their neighbours in France delight
in."

I don't think I need to say anything more ......

Absolutely.

Mary

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...
We've had problems with the computer, so it's taken me a couple of days
to post the following recipe for Woodlouse Sauce for fish. The original
book "Why not eat insects?2 was originally published in 1885, and gives
recipes and suggestions for eating just about every kind of garden pest.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall would be proud of you! :-)

I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)
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SusieThompson wrote:

: But while we, in these days of agricultural depression, do all we can
: to alleviate the sufferings of our starving labourers, ought we not to
: exert our influence towards pointing out to them a neglected food supply?"

Check out Zack's Bug-Feasting Page: http://eat.bees.net/

Warning: lots of photos of human bug-eaters having lunch.
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I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year
old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

Mary
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Edward's earthworm page:
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"Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...
SusieThompson wrote:

: But while we, in these days of agricultural depression, do all we can
: to alleviate the sufferings of our starving labourers, ought we not to
: exert our influence towards pointing out to them a neglected food
supply?"

Check out Zack's Bug-Feasting Page: http://eat.bees.net/

Warning: lots of photos of human bug-eaters having lunch.

Oh! I'd forgotten about that site, thanks for reminding me. It really is
very good.

Mary
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In article , Mary Fisher
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I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year
old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

I think it was probably meant to be stew. We certainly didn't have three
courses!
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In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:

I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year
old
girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of
earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were
learning about survival.

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

Well, lass, to as young and innocent as you, maybe. But to someone
of my era and background, not quite!

At the other end of the scale from posh, soup is traditionally used
for the following purposes:

To make a very small amount of food go a long way, by the use of
a large amount of water and (if you have it) some form of starch.

To make some use of the ingredients that are unpalatable or even
actually uneatable. Skin, bones, woody vegetables etc.

To hide the fact that you are reusing leftovers of the sort that
would traditionally have been fed to the pigs.

To this day, I can remember those soups. Actually, I didn't mind them
much, though I wasn't keen on almost unflavoured flour paste, but posh
they weren't!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

I think it was probably meant to be stew. We certainly didn't have three
courses!

Ah. Are you sure it wasn't worm stew?

You're much younger than me so won't have experienced school meals during
the war. We often had porage for pudding. It was similar to the mashed
potato in that it had lumps of cardboard in it. But we were always hungry
....

Mary
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Kay Easton wrote:
In article , Mary Fisher
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You had soup at school?

There's posh!

I think it was probably meant to be stew. We certainly didn't have three
courses!

In this context, tThe purpose of soup as a first course is to fill you up
with something that costs almost nothing to make.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

Well, lass, to as young and innocent as you, maybe. But to someone
of my era and background, not quite!

Er - Nick I suspect that you have the wrong impression of my era (pre war)
and my background (from a labourer's family)!

And I'm certainly not innocent!

At the other end of the scale from posh, soup is traditionally used
for the following purposes:

snip

I know all that - and I still do it but to better effect than was possible
In Those Days.

To this day, I can remember those soups. Actually, I didn't mind them
much, though I wasn't keen on almost unflavoured flour paste, but posh
they weren't!

No - but it would have been posh to have had soup as a first course, as Kay
understood.

Actually our wartime school meals were in some ways better than some of the
ones at home, there was always meat. My mother made stews with cowheel. But
somehow she always managed a roast on Sundays. And we ate a lot of rabbit
stew, my brother and I fought over the tongue and brains so much that she
took to cutting the head in half.

Oh! Sorry, this isn't the right ng is it! thought I was on f+d for a few
minutes ...

Mary


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Check out Zack's Bug-Feasting Page: http://eat.bees.net/

Warning: lots of photos of human bug-eaters having lunch.

I had a quick look for slug related recipes just now, and found the
following site. http://bertc.com/recipes.htm

Back onto gardening, well, sort of - there's a flock of around 20
pigeons winging around above my few kale plants. Recipes for pigeon
stuffed with kale anybody?
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Back onto gardening, well, sort of - there's a flock of around 20
pigeons winging around above my few kale plants. Recipes for pigeon
stuffed with kale anybody?

I'll take them off your hands - I love pigeon.

A pigeon once fell in front of a car. I picked it up, it was still alive. I
wanted it for the pot. Then I saw it was ringed - a young racing pigeon. So
we were unlucky that time :-(

Susie - where in Arran are you?

Mary
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And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

I think it was probably meant to be stew. We certainly didn't have three
courses!

Ah. Are you sure it wasn't worm stew?

No - not entirely sure

You're much younger than me so won't have experienced school meals during
the war. We often had porage for pudding. It was similar to the mashed
potato in that it had lumps of cardboard in it. But we were always hungry
...
I can remember a guide camp when the 'cook patrol' were unwise enough to
prepare porridge followed by scrambled egg. We think they served them in
the wrong order, but we weren't entirely sure.
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In article , Nick Maclaren
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In article ,
Kay Easton wrote:
In article , Mary Fisher
writes

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

I think it was probably meant to be stew. We certainly didn't have three
courses!

In this context, tThe purpose of soup as a first course is to fill you up
with something that costs almost nothing to make.


Like Yorkshire pudding ;-)

--
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Susie - where in Arran are you?

We're staying in a rented house, not far from the mustard factory in
Lamlash, and we're going to be building our own home at Shiskine during
the course of this year. IIRC you know Arran pretty well. At the
moment the wild salmon berry (cloudberry?) is in full flower - the
bright pink blooms are stunning, pity it's such an invasive weed here.
I wonder if , if it is indeed cloudberry, the same cloudberry as the
Scandinavians use in their cookery. Perhaps it was brought here as a
commercial crop, and then escaped.

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I can remember a guide camp when the 'cook patrol' were unwise enough to
prepare porridge followed by scrambled egg. We think they served them in
the wrong order, but we weren't entirely sure.

LOL!

I gave up while in the Brownies, all those silly games running over
outstretched legs ... and I couldn't understand why you got badges for doing
everyday things like turning the heel of a sock!

I still have some and was pleased to see that 'thrift' was rpresented by a
skep (straw beehive).

Mary
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Susie - where in Arran are you?

We're staying in a rented house, not far from the mustard factory in
Lamlash, and we're going to be building our own home at Shiskine during
the course of this year. IIRC you know Arran pretty well. At the
moment the wild salmon berry (cloudberry?) is in full flower - the
bright pink blooms are stunning, pity it's such an invasive weed here.
I wonder if , if it is indeed cloudberry, the same cloudberry as the
Scandinavians use in their cookery. Perhaps it was brought here as a
commercial crop, and then escaped.

When you're settled we'll come and see you. Let me know.

Mary
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In this context, tThe purpose of soup as a first course is to fill you up
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Like Yorkshire pudding ;-)

I was going to say that! But I didn't because Nick might have said that it
needs an egg so could come under the heading of a luxury food rather than
soup made with onion skins and woody parsnips!

Mary

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Mary Fisher wrote:
I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a
ten year old girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce
type) a dish of earthworms. She was one of several military
family children who were learning about survival.

And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

As I recall it would have been 'posh' if each course was served on a
new plate.
Today, I would kill for a plate of Grannies 'left overs soup'.
What she could do with split peas and lentils ...... !

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When you're settled we'll come and see you. Let me know.

Everything on Arran seems to take ages to get organized, but the builder
says that we *should* be in the new house before Christmas. I'll let
you know. Look forward to meeting you.

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I gave up while in the Brownies, all those silly games running over
outstretched legs ... and I couldn't understand why you got badges for doing
everyday things like turning the heel of a sock!

I got as far as Rangers - it was dreadful in those days! - Make up,
flower arranging!! ... ISTR this was the 'design for living' component
of the Duke of Ed award in those days.

I still have some and was pleased to see that 'thrift' was rpresented by a
skep (straw beehive).

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In article , Mary Fisher
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In this context, tThe purpose of soup as a first course is to fill you up
with something that costs almost nothing to make.


Like Yorkshire pudding ;-)

I was going to say that! But I didn't because Nick might have said that it
needs an egg so could come under the heading of a luxury food rather than
soup made with onion skins and woody parsnips!

I dunno! - the egg would have come from your own chickens, whereas you
probably had to buy the flour.
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In message , Mary Fisher
writes

Susie - where in Arran are you?

We're staying in a rented house, not far from the mustard factory in
Lamlash, and we're going to be building our own home at Shiskine during
the course of this year. IIRC you know Arran pretty well. At the
moment the wild salmon berry (cloudberry?) is in full flower - the
bright pink blooms are stunning, pity it's such an invasive weed here.
I wonder if , if it is indeed cloudberry, the same cloudberry as the
Scandinavians use in their cookery. Perhaps it was brought here as a
commercial crop, and then escaped.

Is this Rubus arcticus? (not cloudberry - R Chamaemorus, which has white
flowers)? Vera brought some over to the urg meet a couple of years back
- mine is just showing its leaves.


--
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Is this Rubus arcticus? (not cloudberry - R Chamaemorus, which has white
flowers)? Vera brought some over to the urg meet a couple of years back
- mine is just showing its leaves.


After a search on Google, I'm fairly sure that what's all around us is
Rubus spectablilis, also called salmon berry. It grows to over 6 feet,
very prickly and invasive. When I first saw it flowering I thought it
very attractive, and wondered about using it as hedging. Now that I've
seen just what it can do, I've had second thoughts!
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Is this Rubus arcticus? (not cloudberry - R Chamaemorus, which has white
flowers)? Vera brought some over to the urg meet a couple of years back
- mine is just showing its leaves.


After a search on Google, I'm fairly sure that what's all around us is
Rubus spectablilis, also called salmon berry. It grows to over 6 feet,
very prickly and invasive. When I first saw it flowering I thought it
very attractive, and wondered about using it as hedging. Now that I've
seen just what it can do, I've had second thoughts!
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Is this Rubus arcticus? (not cloudberry - R Chamaemorus, which has white
flowers)? Vera brought some over to the urg meet a couple of years back
- mine is just showing its leaves.


After a search on Google, I'm fairly sure that what's all around us is
Rubus spectablilis, also called salmon berry. It grows to over 6 feet,
very prickly and invasive. When I first saw it flowering I thought it
very attractive, and wondered about using it as hedging. Now that I've
seen just what it can do, I've had second thoughts!
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Is this Rubus arcticus? (not cloudberry - R Chamaemorus, which has white
flowers)? Vera brought some over to the urg meet a couple of years back
- mine is just showing its leaves.


After a search on Google, I'm fairly sure that what's all around us is
Rubus spectablilis, also called salmon berry. It grows to over 6 feet,
very prickly and invasive. When I first saw it flowering I thought it
very attractive, and wondered about using it as hedging. Now that I've
seen just what it can do, I've had second thoughts!
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In article ,
Kay Easton wrote:
In article , Mary Fisher
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In this context, tThe purpose of soup as a first course is to fill you up
with something that costs almost nothing to make.

Like Yorkshire pudding ;-)

I was going to say that! But I didn't because Nick might have said that it
needs an egg so could come under the heading of a luxury food rather than
soup made with onion skins and woody parsnips!

I dunno! - the egg would have come from your own chickens, whereas you
probably had to buy the flour.

In the country and suburbia, yes, but not in cities! You could get
dried egg easily enough, but it is almost useless to use for cooking.
I know some people succeeded with it, but most didn't.

Really? I used it for quite a while with no problem - maybe because I
didn't know it was difficult ;-)
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:


I always thought dried egg was an abomination too. My mother bought it and I
remember once that she made 'scrambled egg' which was quite nice but I'd
never tasted the real thing. And didn't until I was married and did it for
myself.

As I intensely dislike the taste of half-cooked egg yolk, I have always
preferred scrambled egg made with dried egg to with real eggs. It has
little in common :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

...
In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:


I always thought dried egg was an abomination too. My mother bought it
and I
remember once that she made 'scrambled egg' which was quite nice but I'd
never tasted the real thing. And didn't until I was married and did it
for
myself.

As I intensely dislike the taste of half-cooked egg yolk, I have always
preferred scrambled egg made with dried egg to with real eggs. It has
little in common :-)

Depends what you call half cooked yolk ... I don't like solid yolk,
especially in a boiled egg.

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrol...pectabilis.htm

'edible but taste varies', the site says. So I looked in my book (Usher:
'Plants used by man') which says 'the eskimos eat the fruit mixed with
seal oil' .. so clearly, it all depends on how you serve them!

When I read that a floavour came into my mouth which I realised was linseed
oil.

I've no idea what seal oil tastes like but am willing to try. I'm sure it's
nothing like linseed.

Mary

--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
 

"SusieThompson" wrote in message
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In message , Mary Fisher
writes

When you're settled we'll come and see you. Let me know.

Everything on Arran seems to take ages to get organized,

That's what we were told. Spouse could make a killing just doing odd jobs
there ... he installed and external power point on our friends' house, they
were going to have to wait for six months.

Mary