Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Pioneer Skills

 

When we had friends over the other night, I brought out a bottle of a wine I’d enjoyed at someone else’s house and I bought a bottle of my own for that evening.

We opened it up, poured a small taste, and then collectively reeled back.

          It was awful. It smelled ghastly and our one brave taste confirmed it. Something had gone horribly wrong with it. So, I poured it out and put the bottle in the recycling.

 

We were having beef stew last night and I wanted to have something more than just a bowl plonked down on the table. Not in the mood for another salad (yes, I know, a healthier choice) and needing to use up the flour, I made baking powder biscuits.

          Kind of.

          No shortening. Since anyone knows that butter makes everything better, I substituted that. Like so many times before, I mixed the dry ingredients, cut in the butter, and added the milk. Next step, a quick knead and then roll it out.

          No rolling pin. When outfitting your place in the land of sun and fun, a rolling pin is rarely top of anyone’s list.

          But wait.

          A quick rifling through the seltzer cans, tonic bottles, and wine discards and eureka! There it was, only needing a good washing.


          The bottler may have screwed up the contents somehow but they designed a perfectly
shaped container.

         

4 comments:

  1. Lol. Just from the shape and label of the bottle, I would have expected shampoo, not wine.

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  2. Thank goodness for straight sided bottles.

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  3. Well done. And yes, I have used bottles (occasionally full ones) for just that purpose.

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  4. When I was a young wife, I used bottles for rolling pins all the time. It's been awhile, though. Sorry about that wine being bed.

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