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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:10 pm Post subject:
Look at the ad this post brought up: https://store.yahoo.com/bromwell99/old-fashioned-popcorn-poppers.html

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:16 pm Post subject:
Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I've always used a saucepan for popcorn.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:17 pm Post subject:
Me too, but it was worth a view

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:37 pm Post subject:

We have a popcorn maker that the chidlren use - the Rayburn is rarely hot enough for popping corn. It's a basic model, about 8 years old now, and very good. It's a plain model, not shaped like a penguin or anything daft!!

With the wheat bags, as far a sI know, it is ordinary dried wheat inside. I don't think you would have it in the microwave long enough for it to all pop out! (Don't quote me on that one, but I think it's right)

To make one, take a rectangle of thin cotton, muslin, cheesecloth, etc. Fold in half, and seam one short side and one long side, so you have a longish tube open at the end. Fill with wheat (not completely stuffed, though, it has to remain flexible enough for eg draping around the neck)and securely stitch /hem the end to totally enclose the wheat.
Now make a cover for it in exactly the same way, but leave the short end open; sew on press studs/poppers/button and loop etc. The muslin bag of what is heated up, then placed inside the cover. This way, the cover can be removed for washing.
Simple to make, and very cheap - much cheaper than you can buy them. Hope this helps.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:43 pm Post subject:
And they do smell lovely

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:46 pm Post subject:
I wouldn't know - I'm a hot water bottle lady myself.............. And I don't have a microwave. If I put it in the Rayburn oven I would only forget about it for 14 hours, as is the norma round here..............

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 1:48 pm Post subject:
The missus is a belt and braces kind of gal, hot water bottle AND wheatie bag

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 2:05 pm Post subject:
Cheers guys; looks like a needlecraft project of such simplicity that even I can do it.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 2:07 pm Post subject:
Where would you get wheat from? I'd go scavenging, but I've never seen wheat anywhere round here - the only thing that grows is horses. Have their uses, but not keeping my feet warm. Having said I generally make do with a dog!

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 2:18 pm Post subject:
Assuming you don't want to go into industrial production, health food shops often have wheat. Generally next to the gluten-free products

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 2:24 pm Post subject:
You should be able to buy organic wheat in bags of 500g/1kg from your healthfood shop. If not, ask them to get some in. I get mine wholesale in sacks, so it is available in larger sizes if youwant to make 76 wheat bags...............

Bugs

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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 2:53 pm Post subject:
What do you use all that wheat for, Sarah? Of course, WW, you can also buy 20kg bags of mixed corn (which is 80% wheat) when you get your chickens...one of these days!

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 2:59 pm Post subject:
Grinding flour, when I do my own flour. Also for some brewing purposes..............naturally

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 3:39 pm Post subject:

Wheat is easy to get. Within 400 yards of our house is this shop:
https://www.dailybread.co.uk/camb/default.htm

I don't care one way or the other about their religion (that's up to them), but I approve of having a wholefoods warehouse within walking distance, one that has good prices, and which donates much of it's profits to charity.

They have wheat, rye, millet, all manner of grains really. Flour by the sack, different sorts of rice and pulses. Great shop.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 04 4:18 pm Post subject:
Right, I shall add it to tommorows list. Wasn't planning on industrial use, so the healthfood shop should do (although I must find a better wholesaler soon) Chickens are looking a bit chicken pie in the sky at the moment. Still working on Mr Grumps, though!

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