What's Cookin'? Traditional Cache
dementedtribe: The business was sold and we are not sure if the new owners will allow a cache on the property. We will let them settle in and approach them later.
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This cache was placed with permission of the owners. You are
looking for a camoed container. The
lid fits tight, so it may be hard to pull off. Please, make
sure
the lid is back on firmly, so the container doesn’t open
and
spill when it is removed from the hiding spot by the next
cachers.
The container isn’t “cooking”, but it might
be
“burning”. Thanks and enjoy!
A neighbor of ours used to work here many years ago. She was a
cook
and made cinnamon rolls every weekend. She related the
following
story to me:
One evening, she made up the cinnamon roll dough and had put it
in
the cooler. O’Brien potatoes were on the menu for the
next
day. She had boiled the potatoes, cubed them, and had put them
into
the cooler also. The potatoes and the roll dough were in several
of
the big steel bowls all restaurants have, covered by towels.
Her husband had driven her to work and she was waiting for him
to
pick her up. While she was waiting, she decided to chop up
the
onions and peppers for the O’Brien potatoes to save
herself
some time the following day. She was just finishing up when
her
husband arrived and he was in a hurry to get home. She grabbed
the
bowls of veggies and tossed them in under the towels into the
bowls
of potatoes, and went home.
The next morning when she pulled the roll dough out of the
cooler,
she discovered she had put the onions and peppers into all of
the
cinnamon roll dough bowls instead of the potatoes! She said
she
felt like crying because there wasn’t any time to start
the
cinnamon rolls again and customers would be arriving all too
soon
expecting fresh rolls. There wasn’t any way to get the
onions
and peppers out and she didn’t want to throw away all of
that
dough; so, she added some spices and baked them up. On the
specials
board, she wrote, “Mama’s Mistake” and hoped
for
the best! The regular customers were disappointed, but most were
up
to trying the “mistake”, as were some of the new
customers to the restaurant that day.
In the end, all of the rolls were sold, and for several
months
after that, people were stopping in looking for more of
“Mama’s Mistake”!
This cache is dedicated to all of the women (and men) that
slaved over these hot stoves to feed their families. We have one
in
our old house and use it to cook on when it is fired up to take
the
chill off the house in the winter. I have prepared an entire
fried
chicken meal complete with biscuits with our 6 burner Monarch
stove! If you have a story about cooking on a wood stove,
include
it in your log!
The cache is in front of a business, but the location can't be seen
by patrons inside despite the large windows! We checked!
Congrats to GSFirefly and RLDrosophila for co-FTF's! Thanks for the
stories!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Chg nabgure ybt ba gur sver!
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