09-25-16 06:43 Dave Drum wrote to Ed Vance about MATS was Re: Food circums
Howdy! Dave,

 -=> Ed Vance wrote to NANCY BACKUS <=-
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 EV> Those MATS can probably be used for a lot of other jobs where a thin
 EV> piece of plastic is needed, I only remembered those two uses for them.

 EV> Hope this helps You, Ruth and anyone else reading this message when you
 EV> want to Roll some dough out.

 EV> Oh, one more thought about the MATS, one side is smooth the other side
 EV> is rough.

 DD> I bought some 12" X 18" versions of those at K-Mart for $1 each. The
 DD> hold up amazingly well for slicing and dicing. And one can pick up the
 DD> chopped (whatever) and use the flexy-flyer as a funnel/scoop to
 DD> transport it to the cooking vessel.

My wife bought some more Chopping Mats at Dollar Tree to give out and
noticed some of them were smaller than the other ones she has, they both are
about the same size as the ones that You bought at K-Mart though.

On the package cover it shows they can be flexed to use as a funnel, etc.

Talking about K-Mart - there is only one K-Mart store still open around here.
The other K-Mart stores were closed last month.
Has that happened where You live also?

 DD> Some notes about the recipe - I was 13 years old when I did this. I was
 DD> going to bake a pie for supper before my parents got home from work ---
 DD> and as I got everything out to make the crust I found that we were
 DD> totally out of Crisco, lard, and only enough butter to slick-up the pie
 DD> pan, etc. So I spotted the can of bacon dripping that my Mum poured the
 DD> residue from frying up breakfast bacon sitting on the stove. And my
 DD> (barely) teen-aged mind reasoned "Lard is pork fat. Bacon grease is
 DD> ......." It was serendipity.

My folks also kept bacon drippings in a small canister on the stove.
Which brings a memory back that I want to tell on me.

I stayed overnight with a family I went to Church with in California back
in the 1960's when I was in the military.

One morning I was trying to fry an Egg using the 'grease' in the small
canister on there stove top.

I kept adding more and more from the can but it evaporated in the hot pan.

One of the family came in the kitchen and I told them of my problem and
learned that they didn't collect grease drippings in that can, I can't
recall what it was in the can but it was some spice mixed with water iirc.

DUH!


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