Development of Cook-Out Briquets at DBC Plant
The DBC plant produces Cook-Out barbecue briquets through a starch and water mix pressed into bars and dried in a 260 degree oven. The line includes a 200 foot conveyor, a large dedicated drier, and six bagging units that weigh and seal 19 20 or 40 pound lots for rail or truck shipment. The process aims for three to four percent moisture and zero wood odor, with tested quality control along eight drier points.
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DBC
Drieé Estevan Mercury
First commercial barbecue briquets from Bienfait plant
Dominion Briquette and Chemicals Ltd ships about 8,000 ten pound bags of lignite coal briquets to U S distributors on March 25. The Bienfait Saskatchewan plant marks the first North American production of barbecue briquets from coal rather than hardwood charcoal, with initial production facing minor snags being resolved.
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Extevan
Sask
Dominion Briquette and Chemicals Ltd
Bienfat
United States
Dominion
Briquette and Chemicals Ltd
Bienfait
Hugh MacDonald
North America
Prairie Oyster recipe from Forties Armed Services
A veteran era snack called Prairie Oyster is described as a make it yourself appetiser. Build a butter wall around a soda biscuit then add catsup mustard and hot meat sauce before eating in one bite.
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Armed Services
Banana Plant Origins and 1516 Introduction
The banana plant originated in Southern Asia and Tropical regions. Friar Tomas de Berlanga, a missionary to the Indians, brought it to the New World in 1516.
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Asia
New World
Tomas de Berlanga
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