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Stirring song

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Mayela had taken over stirring their supper in the pot.   It was a pork stew,  filled with  carrots, onion, sage and thyme, to which she was slowly adding barley flour as a thickener, whilst stirring and singing the old family stirring song.


Stir, stir the fire is hot,
The water boils, the food is cooking
Stir, stir, the fire is hot
If you don't, the food will burn.
Here is a first tiny glimpse of the world I am creating in the Dragon Tree series of books I am writing.
Set 3,000 years ago in the Bronze Age, this mother lives in a roundhouse and is stirring a pot over an open fire. The tribe is in great peril, but life must go on while they wait...

We should all teach our children this song as we stir. Many meals could be saved.
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