That chicken-on-the-ceiling episode really scarred her for life :-) I tried to tell my sister, Miss P, that the other night when she called and I told her I was making this beef stew in the pressure cooker. I could hear the fear and trepidation in her voice right through the phone line. Relief valves that trip if the pressure gets too high. There are multiple safety features built into modern pressure cookers. I know I’m not doing much to allay your fears of using a pressure cooker, but honestly the technology has come a long, long way since those days. Modern Pressure Cookers Are Safe and Easy to Use Needless to say, we did not make it to church that particular Sunday. And I do mean every surface – even the ceiling. Mama went running toward the kitchen into what I was sure would be her (and our) certain annihilation only to find the pressure cooker blown to bits and chicken covering every possible surface. Really…all that practicing we did at school getting under our desks and covering our heads in case of an attack. Well, this was during the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis and me, being the biggest ‘fraidy-cat on the planet, thought for sure that the “bad guys” were coming to get us. I also imagine that she was distracted beyond belief by the three squirming little handfuls that were me and my sisters when all of a sudden we heard the loudest boom coming from the direction of the kitchen. I imagine she had plans to make something like Chicken a la King, one of my personal retro favorites, out of that chicken when we got back home. So, before she started getting us dressed, she had put some chicken on to cook in her pressure cooker. Besides getting everyone dressed and ready for church, Mama also had to have dinner ready when we returned. Anyway, it was one of those Sunday mornings when the three of us were behaving like, well, like little girls.
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