If you have wondered what cob building is, here is a great slide show from a recent workshop in Fredricksburg that explains the process pretty well.
… check it out! Go to claysandstraw.com, click on “current
projects” and then “caretakers cottage”.
Or go directly there:
http://claysandstraw.com/projects/CaretakersCttge/CrTkrCttge.htm
While it may not have been hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, recent triple-digit heat proved more than enough to get the job done when it came to baking cookies.
Justus-Tiawah teacher Sherri Ladd’s seventh and eighth grade classes participated in a day-long experiment, involving cookie dough, her personal car and mother nature.
“With it being so hot — into the hundreds — we thought we’d find out if it would be hot enough inside my car, with the windows rolled up, to actually bake cookies,” Ladd said. “So, last Friday, we put in two dozen cookies — just regular raw cookie dough — onto baking sheets, put them in my car (in the JT parking lot), rolled up the windows, and let the heat do the rest.”
Throughout the day, Ladd said the temperature in her car reached 200 degrees Fahrenheit (according to an oven thermometer placed inside, near the cookies), and by day’s end, her seventh-grade science students reaped the benefits of her scientific curiosity.
“My seventh grade girls were the lucky ones that day — they got to finish off the cookies,” she said, noting the students described them as “softer and fluffier” than cookies baked in a conventional oven.
Although temperatures have cooled somewhat since last week, Ladd said she wouldn’t rule out baking another few dozen cookies for her students, were it to warm up again.
“If we have another hot day like we did last week, we might bake more cookies inside my car,” she said. “We’ll have to wait and see.”
By: Tom Fink http://claremoredailyprogress.com
The successful WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Initiative dramatized the global water crisis by adapting a familiar nursery rhyme.
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water:
After a drink of the water,
Jack died of cholera
and Jill from amoebic dysentery.
