In message , badriya 
 writes
>On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:10:44 +0100, Kim Andrews 
>wrote:
>
>>J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>>
>>> One person's "significant" ... when I started, "How do you cook a chop"
>>> was a real question - to the extent that "in the oven" was not obviously
>>> the wrong answer. (Let alone arcane things like "how much is a pinch".)
>>
>>I have just treated myself to the wonderful "The Stork Wartime Cookery
>>Book", which includes a section "Directions to Grass Widowers": How to
>>make Coffee; make Tea; cook Greens; make Porridge; boil Potatoes; cook
>>Sausages.

(For some reason IRTA "cook Germans" at first.)
>>
>>You should get hold of a copy. :o)

Well, I would have, had it been around (and on sale) twenty-ahem years 
ago; I now know how to cook a chop: don't buy them, buy (pork) steaks 
instead, much less wasteful (and less bother to eat). (And _those_ I do 
four minutes each side under the grill. In fact, I do more or less 
_everything_ that way.)

>My grandfather really could not boil an egg.  He tried to use the
>kettle when left alone once.
>
Hmm, would that actually definitely not work? I can see that starting 
from cold (as the description implies) would not be a Good Thing, but 
(depending on how one likes one's eggs) I'm not _sure_ it wouldn't.
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