From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #221 Reply-To: hist_text Sender: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk hist_text-digest Friday, January 15 1999 Volume 01 : Number 221 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:07:16 -0600 From: "yellow rose/pendleton" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians Lanney, I second what you said. Maybe our joking around does get out of line once in awhile, but hell life is too short to be serious all the time. The way I figure it, if'n them NonTexican fellers can't put up with a little joking around, they have a button that says DELETE ! ! ! Pendleton P.S. It truly is a shame that everyone cannot be fortunate enough to be a natural born Texican. - ---------- > From: Lanney Ratcliff > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 8:02 PM > > Ghosting Wolf > Many of the people on this list are personal friends and sometimes take advantage of the forum to pass a little harmless banter back and forth. I really don't think that it is in e-mail clogging quantities but I, for one, am sorry it makes you sick. This kind of exchange takes place from time to time with a variety of subjects and when a particuar subject has proven to have no interest for me I simply delete the posts in the thread as I come to them, never bothering to read them. Until this current wave of droll comments to and about Texians (often with me as a target) comes to an end I suggest you do the same. Maybe your complaint and this response will put the kibosh on the Texian thread and let everybody get serious....again. > Sincerely > Lanney Ratcliff, Texian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: GHickman@aol.com > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 4:49 PM > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians > > > >What does all this Texian stuff have to do with this list? I'm getting pretty > >sick of my e-mail being clogged up with this stuff. Take it somewhere else, > >please. Thanks. > > > >Ghosting Wolf > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:09:48 -0500 From: Linda Holley Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians Hey!!!! can I play???? My mother was from Sweatwater, Texas. Do half texans count?? And I love the "serious" banter. Linda Holley yellow rose/pendleton wrote: > Lanney, > I second what you said. Maybe our joking around does get out of line once > in awhile, but hell life is too short to be serious all the time. The way I > figure it, if'n them NonTexican fellers can't put up with a little joking > around, they have a button that says DELETE ! ! ! > Pendleton > P.S. > It truly is a shame that everyone cannot be fortunate enough to be a > natural born Texican. > ---------- > > From: Lanney Ratcliff > > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians > > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 8:02 PM > > > > Ghosting Wolf > > Many of the people on this list are personal friends and sometimes take > advantage of the forum to pass a little harmless banter back and forth. I > really don't think that it is in e-mail clogging quantities but I, for one, > am sorry it makes you sick. This kind of exchange takes place from time to > time with a variety of subjects and when a particuar subject has proven to > have no interest for me I simply delete the posts in the thread as I come > to them, never bothering to read them. Until this current wave of droll > comments to and about Texians (often with me as a target) comes to an end I > suggest you do the same. Maybe your complaint and this response will put > the kibosh on the Texian thread and let everybody get serious....again. > > Sincerely > > Lanney Ratcliff, Texian > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: GHickman@aol.com > > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 4:49 PM > > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians > > > > > > >What does all this Texian stuff have to do with this list? I'm getting > pretty > > >sick of my e-mail being clogged up with this stuff. Take it somewhere > else, > > >please. Thanks. > > > > > >Ghosting Wolf > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:57:18 -0800 From: tigrbo1 Subject: Re: MtMan-List: guns Hi Don, "Good Condition" as in fully operational, as in shootable??? If so I would say $450 is a reasonable price for an original, if that is, it's truly an original as you can't buy a reproduction for that price. Best regards, Terry Smith Don Neighbors wrote: > I was offered a 1827 Hoppers Farrey Flintlock rifle in good condition > for $450.00 is this a goog buy? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:28:23 -0800 From: Pat Quilter Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Mtn Man Speed Patterns It's the same book -- the full title. - -----Original Message----- From: Frank [mailto:Buckskinner@gbis.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 8:22 PM To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Mtn Man Speed Patterns Pat, Is the book titled "Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail " the same book or a sequel? Medicine Bear Pat Quilter wrote: > In my experience, the best attempt to capture the pure speech pattern of the > mountain man was in Lewis Garrards "Yah To Wah", written about an 1846 > season with several original mountain men. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:32:49 -0800 From: Frank Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Mtn Man Speed Patterns Thank you sir...I'm headin' over to Amazon to order it! Pat Quilter wrote: > It's the same book -- the full title. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank [mailto:Buckskinner@gbis.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 8:22 PM > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Mtn Man Speed Patterns > > Pat, > > Is the book titled "Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail " the same book or a > sequel? > > Medicine Bear > > Pat Quilter wrote: > > > In my experience, the best attempt to capture the pure speech pattern of > the > > mountain man was in Lewis Garrards "Yah To Wah", written about an 1846 > > season with several original mountain men. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:39:17 -0600 From: "Lanney Ratcliff" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians Dang right, you can play. Was you mom from Sweatwater or Sweetwater? = There ain't no such thing as a half Texan....one drop of Texan blood is = enough. Lanney Ratcliff, Texian rat@htcomp.net=20 - -----Original Message----- From: Linda Holley To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 8:59 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians >Hey!!!! can I play???? My mother was from Sweatwater, Texas. Do half = texans >count?? > >And I love the "serious" banter. > >Linda Holley > >yellow rose/pendleton wrote: > >> Lanney, >> I second what you said. Maybe our joking around does get out of = line once >> in awhile, but hell life is too short to be serious all the time. The = way I >> figure it, if'n them NonTexican fellers can't put up with a little = joking >> around, they have a button that says DELETE ! ! ! >> Pendleton >> P.S. >> It truly is a shame that everyone cannot be fortunate enough to be = a >> natural born Texican. >> ---------- >> > From: Lanney Ratcliff >> > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians >> > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 8:02 PM >> > >> > Ghosting Wolf >> > Many of the people on this list are personal friends and sometimes = take >> advantage of the forum to pass a little harmless banter back and = forth. I >> really don't think that it is in e-mail clogging quantities but I, = for one, >> am sorry it makes you sick. This kind of exchange takes place from = time to >> time with a variety of subjects and when a particuar subject has = proven to >> have no interest for me I simply delete the posts in the thread as I = come >> to them, never bothering to read them. Until this current wave of = droll >> comments to and about Texians (often with me as a target) comes to an = end I >> suggest you do the same. Maybe your complaint and this response will = put >> the kibosh on the Texian thread and let everybody get = serious....again. >> > Sincerely >> > Lanney Ratcliff, Texian >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: GHickman@aol.com >> > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 4:49 PM >> > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians >> > >> > >> > >What does all this Texian stuff have to do with this list? I'm = getting >> pretty >> > >sick of my e-mail being clogged up with this stuff. Take it = somewhere >> else, >> > >please. Thanks. >> > > >> > >Ghosting Wolf >> > > >> > > >> > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:38:25 -0500 From: "Fred A. Miller" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning Don Neighbors wrote: > > The best way I have found to season a pot is to take some cooking oil > and pour some ether on a paper towel then rub it all over the pot. Not > wear it is dripping just wear you have a good film on it. Then set your > oven @ 350 degrees. Then place the pot on the rack for around 30 to 40 > minutes. this well season the pot. When after you clean it I always rub > a film of cooking oil on it. Never put it away wet it will rust. If it > ever rust , clean it with steelwool then repeat the seasoning over again > . This has always worked for me. Useing the pot over and over will > season it itself. Donnie Solid veg. oil like Crisco is better. Place aluminum foil on the bottom of the oven and set the pot/skillet, etc. upside down on a rack. "Bake" for an hour. Quite right, in that it will get better with use. Above all others, I like and use my Lodge cast iron more than anything else. Fred - -- "Slicker 'n Willie Lube".......and that's doin some! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 02:11:58 EST From: EmmaPeel2@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Re speech patterns In a message dated 1/14/99 1:37:33 PM Mountain Standard Time, skel_98@yahoo.com writes: << A mans level of education probally had little to do woth how he spoke. A man tends to use speech patterns to match the group he is with. >> That is a good point and very true......but education would have some influence,however nominal . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:02:27 -0500 From: deforge1@wesnet.com (Dennis Miles) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians Sorta like a virus?? D "Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e" DOUBLE EDGE FORGE Period Knives & Iron Accouterments http://www.wesnet.com/deforge1 - -----Original Message----- From: Lanney Ratcliff To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 10:55 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians Dang right, you can play. Was you mom from Sweatwater or Sweetwater? There ain't no such thing as a half Texan....one drop of Texan blood is enough. Lanney Ratcliff, Texian rat@htcomp.net - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:57:06 -0600 From: "Austin, Tim" Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Texians Just goes to show you that those who are not Texians are really jealous. Mr. Ghosting Wolf is just feeling his insecurities. Tim Austin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:58:11 EST From: TetonTod@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians well at least you fellers did us all the favor of using a subject line we can recognize as worthy of deleting Todd Glover ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:47:52 EST From: TrapRJoe@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning I cure mine the same way as the others I have read here, but instead of cooking oil or grease, I use bees wax. As for period or not I don't know. Fat was hard to come by out west, that's why beaver tail was so good. Bee trees were common. TrapRJoe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:34:32 -0500 From: "Pearce Gardner" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning >I was wondering the best way of seasoning a cast iron pot because I cook >with one and am wondering how to re-season it bec I lost the directions >on how to do that. Anyone have experience with it? > I cook with my cast iron pots and pans everyday. For the pans I use everyday or so, I just keep a good greasy surface on them. I use the scapular to clean off the bits of cooked on food, and then just wipe them out with a clean paper towel or use water and a wash cloth with little or no soap. After they are clean, I will put them back on a warm stove or into a warm oven. If the pot needs seasoning, then I spray them with Pam or grease them with a little butter or oil, wipe clean with towel, and put them in a oven at 350 for an hour or two. I have even cooked bacon in an unseasoned pan at a low temp. and being careful to turn the bacon often so it does not stick to the bottom of the pan. I buy only cast iron cookware that has been grounded or milled inside. I have even been known to take some sand paper and sand the inside of a pot if I did no like the finish in it. The one problem that I have had with cast iron pots is to store them for a month or longer with a too thick of a layer of seasoning on them, and the fat or oil will turn rancid. I do have certain pots I only use infrequently, so I will use soap on them when I wash them and not re-oiling them, but being careful to heat them to dry them. When I get read to use them again, I will pull them out several hours before and re-season them. In short, to season an iron frying pan, slowly cook some bacon in it. Hope this helps. Pearce ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:00:31 -0800 From: Dale Nelson Subject: Re: MtMan-List: guns Don Neighbors wrote: > > I was offered a 1827 Hoppers Farrey Flintlock rifle in good condition > for $450.00 is this a goog buy? If you don't want it, can I have a look at it. That price sounds good to me. DN ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:14:55 -0600 From: "Maggelet Family" Subject: MtMan-List: Model 1803 Rifle/ Lewis and Clark There has been much discussed on whether or not L&C used the Model 1803 rifle; the facts are available in the original journals and review of early government ordnance correspondence. The fact that the "short rifle" as specified by Secretary of War Henry Dearborn was in production by late 1803 can be seen in two 1803 dated specimens, serial numbered 14 and 94. The letters concerning production can be seen in Hicks's "Notes on U.S. Ordnance, Volume 1", page 25. Lewis's rifles were completed by the eighth of July 1803 at Harpers Ferry, and improvements to the design were made in December 1803 at the suggestion of Dearborn (adding a brass band on the forestock, a wider rear sight, and a bell shaped entry pipe). This evidence strongly suggests that expedition rifles lacked these improvements. Also, the suggestion that expedition short rifles had slings is unsubstantiated with the lack of any supporting documentation or physical evidence. The gun slings procured for the expedition were obtained from the Philadelphia arsenal (not Harpers Ferry), and were included with implements for muskets. The fact that the Model 1803 was used by the Corps of Discovery can be seen in four journal entries- (Lewis, 12 April, 1806)- "we caused all the men who had short rifles to carry them in order to be prepared for the natives should they make any attempts to rob or injure them." Clark's comments are similar to Lewis's on this date. Ordway (18 June, 1806)- "Drewyer and Shannon Sent on a head to go to the villages of the pell-oll-pellow nation they took one of the Short rifles in order to git a pilot if possable to go over the mountn with us." Lewis (11 August, 1806)- "... the ball had lodged in my breeches which I knew to be the ball of the short rifles such as that he had." Hope this clears up some misconceptions. Yours, &c. Mike Maggelet ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 17:08:07 -0800 From: JW Stephens Subject: MtMan-List: Archives? I was curious if the list digests are archived as I did not receive V1 #208. If anyone still has a copy of this digest and can forward it to me, many thanks. If there is a standing archive, what is the URL? - -- JW "LRay" Stephens, Squadron Commander; Lobo Solo Squadron EPP Technician, Primary Color Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA ... ICQ# 20564775 "mean people suck" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:19:35 EST From: RR1LA@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning right from the manufacturers mouth..... Lodge Cast Iron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:21:05 EST From: LODGEPOLE@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning In a message dated 1/14/99 12:53:49 PM US Eastern Standard Time, tedhart@juno.com writes: << I was wondering the best way of seasoning a cast iron pot --------- - -----(stuff deleted)------------------------------------- >> Ted, The way I always do it is to rub cooking oil all over the inside of the pot/pan and then just put it on the fire and let it burn off. However I was given a method by a guy who makes the rondy Ciruit and sets up a cook camp and serves a real good/cheap breakfast or dinner. (Any body know Doyle? Talked to him lately?) He told me that he does the same but instead of cooking oil, he uses bees wax. Rub it into the cooking suface and put on the fire and let it cook off. Now where I re-season from time to time, he told me that the big pot and large pan he uses almost exclusively were seasoned some 10 or 15 years ago and never have had to be re-seasoned. Longshot ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:32:07 -0800 From: Roger Lahti Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texicans and Humor! Lanny, Told you my brother-in-law was a Texican didn't I? We both cut ourselves when we were taking care of that hugh WA. white tail he got back in late Oct. Our blood mixed quit by accident. Does that mean I'm now a Texican too? God help me, I'm now a "Breed"! Be proud to be one under the circumstances too. Oh, and you sour puss's out there?!, I shall now drop this thread and get back to the Great Mystery of History! I remain (in good spirits)........ YMOS Capt. Lahti' Dennis Miles wrote: > Sorta like a virus?? > D > > "Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e" > DOUBLE EDGE FORGE > Period Knives & Iron Accouterments > http://www.wesnet.com/deforge1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Lanney Ratcliff > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 10:55 PM > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians > > Dang right, you can play. Was you mom from Sweatwater or Sweetwater? There > ain't no such thing as a half Texan....one drop of Texan blood is enough. > Lanney Ratcliff, Texian > rat@htcomp.net > - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:47:38 -0800 From: Roger Lahti Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning TrapRJoe@aol.com wrote: > I cure mine the same way as the others I have read here, but instead of > cooking oil or grease, I use bees wax. As for period or not I don't know. > Fat was hard to come by out west, that's why beaver tail was so good. Bee > trees were common. > TrapRJoe TrapRJoe, Like not a tree for a 1000 miles! Ain't ya ever heard of "fat cow"? Wonder where the phrase came from? Some reported beaver tail to be quit horrid and an acquired taste at best. But yes the frontiersman often was fat starved. But bee's wax? Won't hurt you unless you inhale the vapors while you are heating it but then most any wax is very detrimental to your health if inhaled. As to being used to season cast iron, I really doubt it since cast iron was a scarce item on the western frontier by most accounts. Great stuff to cook in but most of the lists of materials show sheet steel/iron, brass or copper cooking pots going west. It's true that there was some cast iron cook ware but not for dragging around on your trapping runs but for use in established camps and posts. Doesn't take much fat pork, or other oil to season a cast iron pot. Why resort to bee's wax? But if it works for you and that's what you want to do go right ahead. I remain....... YMOS Capt. Lahti' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:46:28 +0100 From: Allen Chronister Subject: MtMan-List: crooked knife I don't know about all crooked knives, but I've owned a couple and a couple of un-hafted trade blades. All of them were single bevel with the bevel being on the inside of the curve. Allen Chronister ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:21:01 -0600 From: Monte Holder Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Pipe smoke JEAN LINDSEY wrote: > we use is Kinnikinnick or Bear berry, > it grows in pine/fur forests, along the ground, most good plant books > will have a picture and description of it. I was wondering if one could grow this stuff in Missouri? Don't take me wrong here, but I like growing stuff and grew some tobacco a few years ago and use it as a theraputic smoke every once in a while. I know the natives used a number of different plant, parts and mixtures. If you think it'd be possible to set me up a garden of this stuff here in the humid midwest, I'd like to talk seed exchange with somebody. Contact off list if interested. Monte Holder Saline Co MO ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:32:00 -0600 From: "northwoods" Subject: MtMan-List: Hedge and Bonner This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BE40A4.93A48700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have an original trap from the fur trade era with the names "Hedge and Bonner" stamped on the springs. I haven't been=20 able to find any reference to either of these names. Can=20 anyone help? From the northwoods Tony Clark - ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BE40A4.93A48700 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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- ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BE40A4.93A48700-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:56:25 -0700 From: Ron Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning Pearce Gardner wrote: > The one problem that I have had with cast iron pots is to store them for a > month or longer with a too thick of a layer of seasoning on them, and the > fat or oil will turn rancid. I do have certain pots I only use > infrequently, so I will use soap on them when I wash them and not re-oiling > them, but being careful to heat them to dry them. When I get read to use > them again, I will pull them out several hours before and re-season them. I read somewhere that if you use Canola or Olive oil to season your pots, that they won't go rancid, like the veg oil or fats. Lonewolf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:37:59 -0600 From: "Lanney Ratcliff" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians There you go.... Lanney - -----Original Message----- From: TetonTod@aol.com To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 8:59 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians >well at least you fellers did us all the favor of using a subject line = we can >recognize as worthy of deleting > >Todd Glover > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:41:56 -0600 From: "Lanney Ratcliff" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texicans and Humor! Yep, all Swede coppersmiths are plenty welcome. Just on drop is all it = takes....and the right heart. Lanney - -----Original Message----- From: Roger Lahti To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 1:33 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texicans and Humor! >Lanny, > >Told you my brother-in-law was a Texican didn't I? We both cut = ourselves when we >were taking care of that hugh WA. white tail he got back in late Oct. = Our blood >mixed quit by accident. Does that mean I'm now a Texican too? God help = me, I'm >now a "Breed"! Be proud to be one under the circumstances too. > >Oh, and you sour puss's out there?!, I shall now drop this thread and = get back >to the Great Mystery of History! I remain (in good spirits)........ > >YMOS >Capt. Lahti' > >Dennis Miles wrote: > >> Sorta like a virus?? >> D >> >> "Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e" >> DOUBLE EDGE FORGE >> Period Knives & Iron Accouterments >> http://www.wesnet.com/deforge1 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lanney Ratcliff >> To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 10:55 PM >> Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians >> >> Dang right, you can play. Was you mom from Sweatwater or Sweetwater? = There >> ain't no such thing as a half Texan....one drop of Texan blood is = enough. >> Lanney Ratcliff, Texian >> rat@htcomp.net >> - > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:50:30 -0800 From: Roger Lahti Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texicans and Humor! Lanney Ratcliff wrote: > Yep, all Swede coppersmiths are plenty welcome. Just on drop is all it takes....and the right heart. Lanney, Call any other Finn than me a Swede and the Texican blood will come out and bite ya. It's Finlander Lahti, thank you. Every since we kicked the Swedes out and stood off the Ruskies in "39" and "40" with 19th Century weapons for a 100 days in Arctic winter contiditons! Course we aren't as proud as Texicans are. And now I'm part one too. Still don't know what to make of that. But in any case I will remain...... YMOS Capt. Lahti' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 18:06:36 +0000 From: randybublitz@juno.com (RANDAL J BUBLITZ) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning I attest to the 'do not use soap on cast iron' advise, If I even think of using soap on my wife's cast iron, she'll skin me... She's awfully proud of her cast iron (she CAN cook with it, too). Her cast iron was the only contested property from her divorce from her previous marriage, she got it. If you value your scalp, don't get soap near cast iron...! Hardtack ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:21:01 -0600 From: "yellow rose/pendleton" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians Thank you ! Thank you very much! Pendleton - ---------- > From: TetonTod@aol.com > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Texians > Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 8:58 AM > > well at least you fellers did us all the favor of using a subject line we can > recognize as worthy of deleting > > Todd Glover ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:07:58 -0500 From: "Fred A. Miller" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cast Iron pot seasoning RANDAL J BUBLITZ wrote: > > I attest to the 'do not use soap on cast iron' advise, If I even think > of using soap on my wife's cast iron, she'll skin me... She's awfully > proud of her cast iron (she CAN cook with it, too). Her cast iron was the > only contested property from her divorce from her previous marriage, she > got it. If you value your scalp, don't get soap near cast iron...! The Lodge web site warns AGINST using soap, and with GOOD reason. 'Hot water ONLY! I dry it with a paper towel, heat it on the stove a tad, then wipe it down with a thin coat of oil. I know of a fellow who had just been married, and is/was a chef. His wife wanted to "do the right thing," and scrubed all his cast iron with a stainless pad. A new marriage was "rough" at the beginning. Fred - -- "Slicker 'n Willie Lube".......and that's doin some! ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #221 ******************************* - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.