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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:18:12 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

>>   No, but I do have a recipe for cockatoo stew, which I had forgotten 
>> about.
>>   You have to understand that cooked cockatoos are reputed to be very,
>> very tough to eat. So ....
>>   Put your plucked and gutted cockatoo into a billy of boiling water
>> with your vegetables. Add an axe head. Cook until the axe head is
>> tender. Throw away the cockatoo and eat the axe head.


> Stone soup?  How big is a billy?

   Usually about 2 litres - about half a US gallon.

   A billy is a camping item, usually used for boiling the water to make
tea (billy tea). It has a wire handle, a fitting lid, and often a
pouring spout. It is straight sided (cylindrical rather than conical).

   And a shiny billy is regarded scornfully by experienced campers -
ours is smoke-blackened from years of camp fires.

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
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