Kamila, after she finishes the wattle, goes down to the river to gather a large lump of clay, molds it to create a bowl, using an old snail shell to polish its surface. She then stokea the kiln and bakes the pots. While they are being fired, she goes down to the stream, where she drinks some water and goes back up to the camp and nods off while she waits for the pots to be finished. She waits for the fire to go out and for the pots to cool, and to her satisfaction, finds that they are of good quality.
After she finishes these, she goes out and eats some more tegacha berries and gathers a large potful of pralil nuts. When she gets the second pot, she shells them, tossing the shells into the embers. To her surprise, the shells initially combust quickly, but then the hard shell burns slowly. Curious, she grabs one of the oily seeds and tosses it into the fire. It ignites quickly and burns with a bright flame. Perfect...
She finishes shelling the pralil nuts and sets the shells aside since they could serve as good fire starters. She throws more logs into the fire. While it heats up, she kneads the pralil to an oily paste on a stone and with her larger flat stone, she elevates it on top of the kiln using a few of the covering stones, allowing the heat to escape. These small cakes cook fairly quickly as they sizzle. She flips them and cooks the other side.
In the end, a total of two cakes are made. She gives one to Andrzej and eats the other, before falling asleep, exhausted.
The nuts themselves, she gri
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