OK Cammie, I got back was busy at work tonight.
The best way to get that natural lump charcoal lit with what little I've use it is to pile it up and get some dry twigs and some paper and build a small fire on top of it. It catches real good that way I've found out. Do you also want to know how to make it with a 55 gallon drum with a sealing type lid?
Rather than creme freche I bet you mean Creme fraiche (Don't know how to make the backward apostrophe for the e in Creme)
It is a less sour and thinner sour cream from France, just put unpasteurized buttermilk, sour cream or even some milk that soured in some heavy cream out in a warm place and let the lactic bacteria do it's thing a few hours.
Lumpy gravy is most often caused by not enough grease in the mix, you can add some more but at this point yer in trouble, to thin add some more flour mixed well with a bit milk or water. To thick add more milk and keep stirring. (You did mean cream gravy I hope.
Prepared mustard is a condiment made of ground mustard that is a thin to thick paste, the liquid can be beer, liquor, wine vinega, oilr or water and other things can be added.
Most recipes that call for it today means that common yellow mustard sometimes called ball park mustard or American mustard or yellow mustard. The bright yellow stuff in other words.
I'm still tryin' to think of what flour I'd have to order from Cairo.
I've been to Cairo it's only about a 100 miles west of here and I could drive there in a short time. With only 790 folks there although I've never stopped there I can't see there grocery store having any kid of flour I couldn't get at home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo,_NebraskaNow if the one store in Lincoln quits carrying steel ground rye flour I may have to get my rye flour of that type from Wilbur, but since that's only 40 miles away it would be even easier to drive there or since I know folks down there they could just bring it when they come to Lincoln.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber,_NebraskaSince I use it mostly for Czech style rye bread it's a logical place to go, the stuff I get now comes from down that way.
Oh and since Wilber is both the Czech apital of Nebraska and the county seat of Saline County, a local joke for you:
What do they keep in the basement of the courthouse in Wilber?
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Bad Czechs.