Corin, I recommend you keep the kid away from both of these people! 
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Oh dear.... LOL!
hey! laugh all yuh want... it works...
Sheesh man!?! I felt bad enough last night when his fever hit 102...
Everclear? Don't have any...but isn't paint thinner pretty much the same thing?
Last night, for example, I watched Medical Detectives on TLC and they showed this apple juice company in Seattle that had e-coli 0175 in their juice. They were sued after it was found that the US military had done an inspection in their processing plant prior to this and said that they could not approve their juice for the troops (the company never revealed this information to anyone).
The e-coli had put over 11 children into the hospital. One (a 19 month old) died from it.
Pretty much...but he won't go blind drinkin' paint thinner...
Sheesh man!?! I felt bad enough last night when his fever hit 102... I did a 15 mile forced march in four hours with a 60 lb ruck and a 102 degree temp from a virus... was one of the crappiest moments of my life...but when we got cooled down, I felt much better... I'm not tellin' yuh to put him thru that, just get his blood movin and muscles loosened up...he can do stretching on the floor... just don't let him get too sedentary...
"The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream. Gimli took up one of the cakes and looked at it with a doubtful eye.
'Cram,' he said under his breath, as he broke off a crisp corner and nibbled at it. His expression quickly changed, and he ate all the rest of the cake with relish."
So it actually is more cake-like and crisp, rather than bread-like and chewy. You are correct.
Maybe something like arrowroot biscuits, only baked in thin squares?
Corin, I recommend you keep the kid away from both of these people!
Hmmmm....instead of honey, I guess light brown sugar would do. Wouldn't be as chewy, that's for sure. Maybe a pan of brown sugar cookies? They'd be crisp on the outside and softer and lighter on the inside. Instad of separating the dough into balls, just spread it thin in the baking pan like brownies.
You think that would work?
I know. The little one had a stomach virus last week. I started counting back to a few days before when a mosquito had been in the car and he'd been bitten several times...
(We've had West Nile in our area...)
Mmhmm...btw...it's Marine...
"Lack of opportunity" is not a virtue...
I think it'd be too sweet, but might be a good starting point. I'm think I'm still leaning more towards slightly sweetened milk biscuits, cut somewhat thick and in squares rather than circles. I have a recipe I came up with from figuring proportions on a package of biscuits we liked and then experimenting with - that might actually be close! I haven't made those in forever...we even made a pattern pricker for them!
Did you really think you needed to warn me about that????
I only worry about high fevers that don't break and stomach flus that last longer than 24 hours. Then, I turn into MY mother, fretting over what horrible disease it might be.
My 5 year old complained that her neck hurt and when she developed a fever I thought it was meningitis. There had been a few kids in the area that had come down with the bacterial strain and I was a basketcase until the fever broke a few hours later and the neck pain went away.
I think my daughter hurries through her illnesses just to be rid of her fussy mom. LOL!!!
Lembas are supposed to be mildly sweet, so I think you are on to something there.
If Tolkien were a woman, he would of written a recipe for lembas in the Appendix! LOL!
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