"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 1/27/2013 10:48 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones
>>>>> and
>>>>> pastries every week.
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>>> snip
>>>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>>>
>>>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>>>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>>>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>>>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>>>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>>>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>>>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>>>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
>>> (snipped)
>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>> If it had "legs" it was a spider
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-CAST...-/251024528288
>>>
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>> I have an antique Scotch Frying Pan which has three wee legs. It also
>> has a handle over the top which can hang over a fire
>>
> That's a spider! You could either set it directly over the source of heat
> or hang it over a fire. Great for cooking outdoors if you ever go
> camping.

We do indeed)

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