Default User wrote:

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> >> I recall many years ago watching an episode of Celebrity Cooks when
> > Margaret Trudeau was the guest. She was never very popular with the
> > general public, but I thought I would watch the show and see what she
> > was like. She did a dish that she said she liked to do when Pierre
> > was away because the boys, ages3-8 <?> at the time, could be very
> > much involved in the process. She did tempura. The idea of having
> > three young boys together with a pan full of hot oil over an open
> > flame ....................... she convinced me that she really is as
> > culls as people claimed.

NB.. should have read "clueless".


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> Well, my Mom used to deep-fry when I was a kid, and there were eight of
> us who were born in the span of 11 years.

I had three brothers. My mother used to deep fry too, but she kept us away
while she was doing it, and she sure as hell would not ever bring a pot
full of hot oil out to the table and set it over an open flame while the
four of us climbed over the table to deep fry our dinner.