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[mx2555]

If you could have invite anybody! Who would you invite?

I think the first person on my list would be Abraham Lincoln. There was a guy that the word on his own. And if you ever seen any of the movies that were made of Abraham Lincoln? You’ll know why.

I think the next person would be JFK. Especially when he was in the Navy torpedo by the enimy. And some of the enlisted men who were on the boat. Said JFK’s boat was torpedoed said Kennedy should have…

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[misskatherinesaint]

If you have to chose between me and someone else, pick them. I'm not going to spend the rest of my life with someone who is going to question if they made the right choice

k.a

[imaginarycircus]

Got 100 tomatoes and a silver spoon? Then you can make ketchup in 1801.

I just looked up the history of ketchup, for no good reason. Just that I'd always wondered. Wikipedia says originally Chinese, then Malay--then brought by Brit explorers to the Colonies. And originally it was made with lots of things. Shellfish. Mushrooms. But in American it became tomato based.

I found this 200+ year old recipe for making some. (The silver spoon makes sense because tomatoes are acidic and reactive against many metals. They didn't have stainless steel cookware in 1801.)

Get [the tomatoes] quite ripe on a dry day, squeeze them with your hands till reduced to a pulp, then put half a pound of fine salt to one hundred tomatoes, and boil them for two hours.

Stir them to prevent burning.

While hot press them through a fine sieve, with a silver spoon till nought but the skin remains, then add a little mace, 3 nutmegs, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and pepper to taste.

Boil over a slow fire till quite thick, stir all the time.

Bottle when cold.

One hundred tomatoes will make four or five bottles and keep good for two or three years.