My Grandma kept a jar of oxalic acid in the cellarway in this old house
which is soon to be MINE, may still be there, I haven't looked lately.
Grandma would put some crystals in water and boil, she would hold any cloth
with rust stains over the steam and it would remove the rust stain.  As far
as I know that is the only thing it was ever used for here.

Grandma also dug and cooked dandelion greens, but not in linseed oil.  I
should think they would be a bit out of season now though.  Ruth


At 6:33 AM -0500 12/8/09, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
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I get oxalic acid at the hardware store - comes in a box. I think Rainbow
makes it.

I will look for it while I am also looking for a real hardware store,
though I am now looking forward to the boiled purslane.
I tried to get purslane to grow in our garden but it did not take.

Recently at the vegetable stand I found a bunch of green weeds and I held
them up and asked, "What is this?"
I was pretty sure what it was, but I had never seen dandelion greens so
tall and so lush.
In my youth I was short on money and lived for about a month off a bitter
pot of them.
So I took this bunch home, boiled them up twice then fried them with onion
and garlic.
It was real good.

My wife drains off the excess peanut oil from her peanut butter and puts it
in a jar to use in cooking.
I put up a new shelf in the kitchen and along in there I poured linseed oil
into a jar, that I left sitting on top of a counter.
The next morning I was looking for the linseed oil and it was gone. I found
it huddled in with the peanut oil and honey bear.
We keep the Iron Out on a different window sill.

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