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Originally Posted by unapam
My dad always did that too. He called it putting the fire to bed! He used to mix slack (coal dust) with a little water to make a paste and plaster it over the fire where it baked and formed a crust which kept the fire alive until morning. A neighbour lady used to make this mix and put it into milk cartons and use them like briquettes on the fire later.
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My granny used to do this with milk cartons & slack...she died when I was 7 but I remember her out in the shed filling up the cartons and begging her to let me fill some as I think I saw it as a bit of a game!!