03-07-2005, 03:31 PM
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On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:23:14 +0100, "Mike Lyle" wrote:
The author was describing a friend's kitchen, and referred to a
demijohn of "bee wine" on the windowsill, with, s/he said, a dead bee
going up and down in it. Have you got more detail?
I dont recollect ever having seen a _real_ bee ( dead or otherwise or
dead-drunk) in them, I have always assumed that it was so called cos
it was always busy with activity as in busy bees buzzing about and
doing good work etc,
( and "fly yeast" wouldn't have sounded so nice !! )
I suspect that the dead bee tale is suspect.
Either that or the friend with the kitchen had misunderstood the nature
of bee wine.
And they were usually large general purpose glass jars, like in pickle
jars, not demi-johns. Didnt those catch on much later ? Or maybe only
richer households out of my ken had pucker johns ?
I used to use stone bottles - mainly gallon and two gallon ones.
(Was it Katherine Whitehorn's _Cooking in a Bedsitter_ ? How we've
travelled on since then!)
Just so !
ere hang on half a mo. I think I still have that in the library,,,,,,
It was the butler who did it..
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