Tuesday, January 26, 2016

African mystery

 Everyone loves popcorn!  During the school year the Kafwa spend endless hours cooking nourishing porridge meals for the children.  When it's time to celebrate the end of the school term, however, they fix a special treat.  Popcorn!!

How do they do that???  The kettles are huge and cumbersome. In my experience, popcorn pans need frequent shaking to keep the kernels from burning but these kettles are much too big to pick up and shake.  If you take the lid off and stir the kernels instead, the popcorn immediately escapes! 

I guess it will remain an African mystery.  The important thing is they somehow make it work and the kids end up with a special treat they love.

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