tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3673895113474609653..comments2024-03-01T03:58:21.808-05:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: The admirable and most famous Snail Water.Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-11287486654040657482016-09-10T02:28:07.298-04:002016-09-10T02:28:07.298-04:00You could sprinkle them with a little snail water ...You could sprinkle them with a little snail water if you wanted to complicate the process a bit more!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-44412341591638967942016-09-10T01:43:39.194-04:002016-09-10T01:43:39.194-04:00Wow. This weekend I'm attempting to make my ow...Wow. This weekend I'm attempting to make my own bricks of gyro meat, a three-day process. I thought <i>that</i> was complicated...Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-42445453184665483202016-09-09T20:52:45.429-04:002016-09-09T20:52:45.429-04:00Exactly so. And wonderfully so. Poor little snails...Exactly so. And wonderfully so. Poor little snails.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-23887313649032982312016-09-09T20:52:19.602-04:002016-09-09T20:52:19.602-04:00Yes, edema from heart failure. I wonder if they cl...Yes, edema from heart failure. I wonder if they classed gout with dropsy...<br /><br />Beer does do in the slugs. So maybe. Or maybe they were simply lightly bathed! Uck.<br /><br />I can't imagine that the average cook had all this on hand! A good number of the recipes sound like something an alchemist interested in medicines might manage.<br /><br />Who would want to mess with collecting Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-2906770125040376372016-09-09T18:35:12.494-04:002016-09-09T18:35:12.494-04:00well, that's the way WE used to do it...well, that's the way WE used to do it...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-87642869404719172452016-09-09T18:25:57.991-04:002016-09-09T18:25:57.991-04:00My experience of slug-disposal duty makes me wonde...My experience of slug-disposal duty makes me wonder whether the beer wouldn't have done for the slugs before the oven. And memories of the same garden suggest that it would take a lot of whittling to get a handful of barberry bark--the branches are pretty thin.<br /><br />I suppose that in many cases "dropsy" meant congestive heart failure. Any sort of diuretic ought to relieve that.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-24066980182064317132016-09-09T12:57:08.597-04:002016-09-09T12:57:08.597-04:00Oh, well, we all have our word-weaknesses!
Glad y...Oh, well, we all have our word-weaknesses!<br /><br />Glad you weren't born in the Middle Ages. Me too, for that matter--I wouldn't have made it very far without modern medicine. Certainly not past my first child, and probably not past strep throat or some such.<br /><br />As a WWII tail gunner's daughter, I should take an interest in your list also! But at the moment I'm about toMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-67623685100357810522016-09-09T12:56:00.655-04:002016-09-09T12:56:00.655-04:00I spent entirely too much time reading the recipes...I spent entirely too much time reading the recipes, which included things that seemed perilously close to cunning-folk work, like turning the hair black without dye. And yes, clearly a lot of plant alchemy and distillation was going on.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-45630152919841656082016-09-09T12:54:43.267-04:002016-09-09T12:54:43.267-04:00Isn't it fabulous? I laughed too--poor snails!...Isn't it fabulous? I laughed too--poor snails!<br /><br />Yes, it would make a curious comp lesson....Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-42655575992751980922016-09-09T11:59:02.725-04:002016-09-09T11:59:02.725-04:00Further proof that good creative cooks are only a ...Further proof that good creative cooks are only a half step away from alchemists! Me, I love stuff like this (the writing, the list, the capitalization; not the snail water with earthworms washed in their own filth), so thanks for posting it.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-4527636170875181802016-09-09T09:48:06.796-04:002016-09-09T09:48:06.796-04:00And 'tis a Great sentence with which to challe...And 'tis a Great sentence with which to challenge English composition students by having them edit and revise the "sentence" of the first paragraph into Something more sensible. Thanks for sharing. I believe I will opt instead for fish oil, B12, and Mobic. Be well! (And thanks for making me laugh a bit this morning.)RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33851619765257890182016-09-09T03:37:12.417-04:002016-09-09T03:37:12.417-04:00On the other hand, how about an MRI scan?
The pro...On the other hand, how about an MRI scan?<br /><br />The problem with you Marly is you're seduced by certain types of words and the longer the list the better. I'd fail with brake caliper, overhead camshaft, exhaust-driven turbo and (an especial favourite of mine which cropped up when the RAF tried vainly to show me how to kill people) barrel locking-nut retaining plunger. But if I Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com