jmcquown wrote:

> My great-aunt did exactly that. I don't know how old she was when I saw
her
> last; she was my dad's aunt and he's now 80. She must have been close to
> that age when I saw her back in 1971 and she was still cranking out pies
on
> that old cast iron wood stove by "feel". I couldn't begin to tell you how
> she measured ingredients but I doubt seriously if she had anything really
> measured (except perhaps by weight for flour and lard). Amazing, isn't
it?


My gas oven was on the fritz a whiles back - the temp control didn't work,
the gas would only work when the oven was on it's highest setting. I
"controlled" the oven temp simply by opening or closing the oven door. I
wouldn't like doing this on a regular basis but it did work okay "for the
duration"...

I guess if you had one of those old monster stoves you'd get the hang of
things pretty quickly after awhiles...

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Best
Greg