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Re: Voyaging the traditional way
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Nov 2, 22:17 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Nov 2, 22:17 -0500
Trevor, I suspect the tallow was borrowed from the ship's cook and not stocked specially for navigation. Crisco or any similar shortening should do today. More likely the cook will have peanut butter, but axle grease would also work.Perhaps even "suet" sold for bird feeders?