Reader Comments on Cape Cod Kindling: Newspaper Knots from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:42:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/home/newspapers-kindling This story reminds me of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long Winter" in which she describes twisting hay into sticks to make them denser so they would burn longer and keep the Ingalls family warm during that bitterly cold and snowy winter. Inspired by that story, I often twist newspaper the way Laura described, but I never thought of knotting the twist. We live in a 210-year-old Federal in central Maine with a lot of fireplaces, and we read a lot of newspapers, so we will be making Cape Cod kindling now. Thanks for the idea! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:40:46 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/home/newspapers-kindling Great idea. We use a lot of newspaper also, but our kindling is running low right now. I'll start tying hte knots! Thanks for another great Yankee idea. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:31:04 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/home/newspapers-kindling I was tickled to see the newspaper knots. I come from a long line of Cape Codders and can remember seeing just about all the adults I knew making these to get the fires started in stoves, fireplaces, even campfires. I just thought that was the way everyone did it. I can remember my father teaching us the "right" way to make them (and my mother teaching us the "easy" way). Then my Dad got a newspaper log roller and what was left over made great logs and helped to stretch the wood pile and keep the newspapers out of the town dump (no recycling plans in those days). In the Spring, the newspapers made pretty good landscape fabric to keep the weeds down in the flower and vegetable gardens. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:18:20 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/home/newspapers-kindling Edith Hunter lives in Weathersfield, VT. She just celebrated her 90th birthday. She heats her home with wood, and every morning restarts the fire in her soapstone wood stove with four knots of newspaper. GCH II Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:25:39 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/home/newspapers-kindling Growing up in Milwaukee, in the 60\'s, my father taught me to make these, too. We called them \"Cape Code logs\". Started many a barbecue and fireplace fire with them, most recently this month! From an old Wisconsin family tree, too -- no Northeastern relatives that I know of. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:17 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/home/newspapers-kindling I ,also burn on average 10 cord .get lots of wood from Craig's List .Built a hydaulic splitter myself ( retired welder ).Kindling gets low as the chilly weather lingers longer .Thanks ,tryed them on tonites fire ,they worked great . Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:40:17 +0100