04-28-2022, 09:02 PM
For those of you in possession of laying hens, check out this video on "water glassing" eggs for preservation without refrigeration. This is how they used to do it in the old days, when refrigerators didn't exist, and folks used spring houses, ice houses, and root cellars to keep food in storage. Actual "water glass" is, I believe, sodium silicate. It was also used as an adhesive to glue paper cartridges together during the Civil War.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’