If things get tougher?

scrooge2008

Your post brought back memories Kittie. My mum used to use a pressure cooker all the time in the seventies, and her soups were to die for. I was thinking of buying myself one, any make recommended? I think hers was a Prestige pressure cooker.

She also used to have a storage cupboard for emergencies. It was full of tinned food, candles, matches, parafin oil and a parafin heater. Strangely enough she was also constantly brewing ginger beer in that same cupboard, which tasted amazing. I recall it being produced from a weird, spongy thing. Anybody still making ginger beer this way?

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my pressure cooker is the tefal clipso and it is very easy to use and store as it hasn`t got the long handle. Lol I remember the prestige I used in the 70s. I was upstairs and forgot about it and the top blew off and the ceiling got covered in a thick soup. The ones these days are much safer

scrooge, you should see my storage cupboard. It is full to the top because of the potential for power cuts/strikes/fuel shortages this winter. Anyway it is a good investment because nothing is getting cheaper

ubamother

when my mum bought her first pressure cooker in the late 60's, she was really wary of it - she used to make us kids stand in the back garden when it was coming up to pressure in case it exploded!! It never did, and she used it all the time - as do now with mine.

doddsy

kittie wrote: »

my pressure cooker is the tefal clipso and it is very easy to use and store as it hasn`t got the long handle. Lol I remember the prestige I used in the 70s. I was upstairs and forgot about it and the top blew off and the ceiling got covered in a thick soup. The ones these days are much safer

Kitties - I gave up on my pc years ago when there was a scare on aluminium cookware. I see your Tefal Clipso is stainless steel so I am tempted, can you tell us anymore about it?

Thanks!

ceridwen

And...for myself....I'm waiting a phonecall back from a friend who used to make hayboxes (WISH I had got one from her at the time) - whilst she has a looksee as she thinks she might hopefully have one spare one lurking around she can let me have. Fingers crossed...I have been very good (well...whilst I was asleep I was very good!;) ). So - all being well I wont have to think of how to make up my own from a spare feather duvet and a silver survival blanket I did manage to buy from Poundland the other day (as I'm pretty cackhanded at owt practical like that).

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doddsy I would def buy the tefal clipso again. It has a steamer basket inside it so can be used as a steamer too. It is 6 litres and I believe can go in a dishwasher but I have never done that. It can steam, cook on low pressure and cook on high pressure

ceridwen, I have been thinking about hayboxes and they must be better using modern materials like polystyrene. I was thinking that the great big rigid freezer insulating boxes used when companies send fresh/frozen food or the slightly old fashioned frozen food carrier with the thick lid and a handle. The hay provides the air spaces but I would think that sheeps wool would be good or maybe experiment with faux fur, fleece, shredded paper. Sheepskin rug, styrofoam etc

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I`m thinking again. Doh too much

Get a large box or any plastic/wood/polystyrene etc container.Line with Ceridwen`s silver survival blankets (or aluminium foil or better yet the foil that goes behind radiators) make 6 cushions and fill with polystyrene beads (from a market stall) so that they are full but floppy. Place one on the bottom (3-4" thick?) and one on each of the 4 sides so they are like a nest. Boil the stew for a bit (how long??)put the tightly lidded dish into the nest. Cover and go away for 8 hours

I think It`ll work. Just need to get someone to make one. Any volunteers?

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interesting

http://www.theyellowhouse.org.uk/themes/cook.html

doddsy

Rice brought to boil on a camping stove can be put into a container with a lid, placed in a coolbox and packed in with that flo-pak polystyrene stuff, it cooks in its own heat then.

This summer we are going to have a go at making a solar oven - rather like this one - http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/M...lar_Box_Cooker

Kittie - thanks for your reply re pc. The above is a post I did on the Nine Days From Anarchy thread. I would think casseroles/stews etc would also finish off this way.

doddsy

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1980-01-01/Rediscover-the-Hay-Box-Cooker.aspx

Haybox instructions here. I has considered this but have always been put off because of not knowing if the food is ok to eat, and how long it can be kept for.