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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Akka Homestead wrote:
> I'm trying to remember from my youth, but I have kind of a mental  
> block.  We had huge fish fries, with 50+ people at mini family  
> reunions.  I can't remember what we fried the fish in...I seriously  
> doubt it was a commercial size fryer, and I know it had to be bigger  
> than the little fryer I have sitting on my countertop.  Is there  
> something that people used to fry fish in?  Something large?  How  
> was that done in those days?  I see some kind of metal rectangle  
> that held the oil, and am I seeing Coleman stoves??  I just can't  
> remember.

Expect even less remembering in the future.

In this neck of the woods they used a big cast iron pot, several- 
gallon size. I found along-side my road a three-legged metal stand  
that would support such a pot but haven't scored a pot yet.