Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "Townsends" channel.

  1. Interesting. Whale oil too was used beyond watch lubes.
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  2. yay!! we'll all be smashed afore noon, hic, an' we'll do thu ancillary. . hic, work affer wards, hic.. .
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  3.  @drewgehringer7813  : I have weighed the validity of your assertion and find it probative. Here is a reference so you may spare the next person you bandy your facts about with from the necessity of examining them afield as I had to: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0043164875903087 😉
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  4. Yes, and they never said, "Here! Hold my beer!"
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  5. Well, initially I think bread baking was a home operation mostly.
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  6. Thought was some huge ball of butter for second
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  7. presumably the tree is harvested later for useful things.
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  8. surprised there's no froe among the gear. A common 18th c. tool. Nice job!
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  9. Have had coffee with bacon fat in it, but thats about it.
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  10. Never seen pure honey do anything but crystallize.
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  11.  @ragnkja  : not even in an ordinary cupboard or pantry shelf. Studies have been done on honey's resistance to mould, germs, rancidity and spoilage. It is nearly a perfect preservative.
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  12. "Kevin . . " lol swamp below.
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  13. An old field manual recorded use of dried wild cherries ground with seeds and all on stone. Rich in nitrilosides!
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  14. I dont want any petroleum products in my 18th century style oil cloth. Not hard to find pure, American made Turpentine, handcrafted, and even organic pure American flax seed oil. There are formula books from those days in English and French that have all kinds of methods useable today for dryers, flexibility factors, etc. Wonder if they found lead prevented mildew? If so, a colloid of silver can provide some protection perhaps. Yeah, go organic!
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  15. Potassium nitrate K+ NO3-, is saltpeter. Rock salt is simply Na+ Cl-
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  16. Bach composed a coffee contata if memory serves
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  17. Must have been a miserable time financially for tomato farmers . . .
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  18. millet, flax, barley and oats too
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