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Default The garlic was spectacular!



"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>> Sorry Martha but banging the head of garlic around in two metal bowls
>>> simply did not work. It did create an extreme amount of racket leading
>>> someone to scream a lot and say that he was not eating it. It did
>>> however at least take off the majority of the papery stuff and partially
>>> separate the cloves. Perhaps had I kept at it, it would have worked but
>>> it was beginning to tire me out.
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>>> What worked like a dream though was the garlic peeler. It's like a
>>> flexible sleeve. Just put the cloves in one at a time and rub. Peel
>>> comes right off. So total time for all 3 cloves was perhaps 10 minutes,
>>> if that. Would have taken me a lot longer to do this by hand.

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>> 3 cloves takes you 10 minutes? Or do you mean 3 heads?

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> Yes. Heads. Looks like I am still getting those terms mixed up. I do
> the same with celery. I say stalk when I mean rib.


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