Nothing like a little hands-on exercise to drum the learning into you. Especially if it involves both the carrot and the stick to motivate the learner.
I see the mortar and pestle. My question is this:
Is Kit going to milk cucumbers?
Squeeze them out like lemons?
I can’t imagine how you’d store large quantities of cucumber juice without it going off in a flash. Unless it’s fermented cucumber juice!
Or so salty that it’s brine in which case it’s not cucumber juice any longer.
We can’t show the horror of processing a cucumber. Let’s just say it’s a mostly painless process. We can’t show the milking of the aloe vera plant either; but that’s just because it’s gross.
As for the rest, I’m pretty sure we cover it in the next few comics. I wouldn’t advise anyone to follow us for recipes 🙂
Q is the writer, so he has final say, but in this case the secret ingredient is 80 proof.
Technically, yes, that makes it Tincture of Cucumber, but I have to hand-write the labels.
Though in fairness to Ione, she does have extensive gardens outside the Shady, so, we *could* have had Kit pressing cukes the day before “off frame”, but that is a writer decision.
Zoomed way in to look at the labels. Very nice set of details, including Old Raven for medicinal purposes. The sack of NaCl is in case of slugs, I guess.
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Nothing like a little hands-on exercise to drum the learning into you. Especially if it involves both the carrot and the stick to motivate the learner.
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I see the mortar and pestle. My question is this:
Is Kit going to milk cucumbers?
Squeeze them out like lemons?
I can’t imagine how you’d store large quantities of cucumber juice without it going off in a flash. Unless it’s fermented cucumber juice!
Or so salty that it’s brine in which case it’s not cucumber juice any longer.
Am I overthinking this?
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We can’t show the horror of processing a cucumber. Let’s just say it’s a mostly painless process. We can’t show the milking of the aloe vera plant either; but that’s just because it’s gross.
As for the rest, I’m pretty sure we cover it in the next few comics. I wouldn’t advise anyone to follow us for recipes 🙂
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No you’re not.
Q is the writer, so he has final say, but in this case the secret ingredient is 80 proof.
Technically, yes, that makes it Tincture of Cucumber, but I have to hand-write the labels.
Though in fairness to Ione, she does have extensive gardens outside the Shady, so, we *could* have had Kit pressing cukes the day before “off frame”, but that is a writer decision.
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I wonder what the sentient veg-folk think of guacamole… 🤔
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The same thing you think of tenderloin: Nommmms!
I, personally, find it icky.
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Zoomed way in to look at the labels. Very nice set of details, including Old Raven for medicinal purposes. The sack of NaCl is in case of slugs, I guess.
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A rash cure joke? How topical.
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Exactly! You get us! Unless we’d set our cartoon realm in the Bahamas in which case you’d have said, “How tropical’.
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Oh my word, we’re getting balmy all right. It’s a sure sign that your readers enjoy the comics, when you’re kept on puns and needlings.
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