Here’s my good deed for the day, in honor of 100 years of Girl Scouting.
I give to you the time-honored recipe for Girl Scout Fire Starters, which I still make for grilling and campfires. You’ll need common sense, cardboard egg cartons, cedar chips from the pet store, a metal coffee can, and Gulf Wax. Using your common sense, choose a place that won’t be ruined by melted paraffin. Place the cartons there, and fill the egg parts with cedar chips. Now you can melt the Gulf Wax.
Using more of the required common sense, melt the wax in the coffee can in a hot-water bath. And please do not walk away from it. Then, using even more common sense — and mitts — pour the wax over the chips, so that the carton and chips are lightly soaked. Let them cool and harden, then break them apart. One nugget is plenty to start the fire of your choice. Just touch a match to the wax-soaked edge of the carton, and you are in business.
I am seriously considering making some Sit-Upons. If you want to make them with me, you’re still a Girl Scout, too!
ginnygram 