grammar correction :) (purposely excavated troughs in watery areas, the
water of which is heated with stones from a nearby fire)!!!

On 18 November 2014 10:51, nikolah gilligan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> In Ireland we have *fulachta fiadh, *(purposely excavated troughs in
> watery areas which is heated with stones from a nearby fire). They range in
> date from the Neolithic to the Med, but most are Bronze Age in date. Later
> sources state that they are associated with cooking deer and have also
> recorded a tradition of using the fat as some kind of moisturiser. However,
> all are different and some researchers are looking into whether some of the
> features were used to create fat for storage or for candles and soap, by
> boiling bones. This is similar to a process used in the Near East with
> gazelle bones and by the Blackfoot tribe in Canada who used similar
> features to create fat and then mix it with dried buffalo and berries to
> create a high-fat winter snack.
>
> On 18 November 2014 00:48, Ralph Hancock <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Polish cuisine uses _słonina_, smoked back fat -- like smoked bacon, but
>> without the meat part. This is a traditional ingredient of long standing.
>> No doubt the original purpose of smoking it was to preserve it.
>>
>> RH
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