Jonty WareingLife goal: Get a plaque this good
webhat@jonty thanks, now I have to know how to stop a pie crust sagging
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M. Grégoire@ozzelot @webhat @jonty
No discussion of the pie crust solution on Wikipedia, alas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hales
No discussion of the pie crust solution on Wikipedia, alas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hales
Neo Ehproque
groff 🇺🇦"As I know you loved the good old man," wrote Gilbert White to a friend, "how can I do better than send you some anecdotes respecting him. His attention to the inside of ladies' tea-kettles that from thence he might judge the salubrity of their wells; his advising water to be showered down suspicious ones before men ventured to descend; his teaching the housewife to place an inverted egg cup at the bottom of her tarts and pies in order to preserve the juice;
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his directing air holes to be left in the out-walls of ground floor rooms to prevent dry rot. These are but a few among those useful pursuits on which his mind was constantly bent. Though a man of a baronet's family and of one of the best houses in Kent, yet was his humility so prevalent that he did not disdain the lowest offices, provided they tended to the good of his fellow men.
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The last act of benevolence on which I saw him employed-and I can somehow see him at it now-was at Farrington, the next parish to this, where I found him in the street with his paint pot before him, much busied in painting white, with his own hands, the tops of the foot-path posts, lest his neighbours might run against them in the dark."