Cap+O'Rushes

Ireland = **__Cap O' Rushes__** = === A long time ago, there lived a rich man with three daughters.One day he asked his daughters " How much do you love me, my dears?". The first daughter said " I love as much as life itself ". Than the second daughter said " I love you more than all the world ". Than he asked his youngest duaghter how much she loved him and she said i love you as much as food loves salt. That made her father very mad and he said that sh e doesn't love him at all and he threw her out of the house. ===

**So the girl wandered for a while until she came to a riverbank where tall, green rushes were growing. Than she cut the rushes and wove a cloak for herself so she could hide her beautiful clothes. T****han she s****aw a large house and knocked on the door. There was a cook that opened the door and asked what the girl wanted. She told the cook she had no where to go and she would do any kind of work fo****r only food and a roof in return. So the cook said if she scrubs the floor, washes the dishes, and scou****rs the pans she can stay. So the girl became a maid. She would clean all day and sleep in a little corner of the kitchen at night. The girl would never tell anyone her name and she would never take off her cloack made of rushes so the other maids would call her Cap O' Rushes. So Cap O' Rushes lived there for a long time. Then one knight the maids told her that there is a ball where all the servants go to whatch the rich people dance. But Cap O' Rushes said she was to tired to go so she pretended to fall asleep in the corner in the kitchen. Then when the maids left she took off her cloak of rushes and went to the dance. She was the most beautiful girl there and she danced with** **the son of her master and he couldn't keep his eyes off of her all night. Then when he would ask Cap O' Rushes her name she would just smile. Than very fast she went home, put on her cloak of rushes, and pretended she was asleep in her corner of the kitchen.**

=== ** When the maids came home they were so excited and told Cap O' Rushes they saw the most beautiful lady but then she slipped off into thin air. That same thing happened two more times. But the third time the master's son gave Cap O' Rushes his ring so she could remember him. Than the master's son started to try to find the lady he danced with. But he didn't know anything about her and either did anyone else. So than he became ill because he couldn't find the lady. Then there was a maid making gruel for the master's son and Cap O' Rushes said she would make it. So she did and she dropped the ring he gave her into the bowl. Then **** Cap O' Rushes gave the bowl to the cook to bring to the master's son he ate all of it and saw the ring he had given the lady he danced with at the bottom of the bowl. He asked who cooked the gruel for him and had Cap O' Rushes sent upstairs. The master's son asked Cap O' Rushes where she got the ring because he didn't notice the lady was her under the cloak of rushes she wears. But then she took off the cloak of rushes and he saw that it was her and he was very happy. But Cap O' Rushes stil did not tell him what her name was or who she was. Then a wedding was arranged for Cap O' rushes and the master's son. People from all over were invited and one of them was Cap O' Rushes father. But he didn't know that the girl who was getting married was his youngest. So before the wedding Cap O' Rushes said to the cook to make all the food without salt. So thats the cook did. When all the guests got there nobody could eat the food because it tasted so. Then her father took a of the food he started crying and said " I once had a daugter who told me she loved me as much as food loves salt. I didn't understand what she meant so I threw her out of the house. But now I know that she loved me very much". Than Cap O' Rushes put her arms around her father and her father was so happy to see that she was safe and sound. ** ===

Then Cap O' Rushes, the master's son, her father and sisters lived happily ever after. ﻿[[image:http://www.onlineaudiostories.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1118-150x150.jpg align="right"]]
=** __Ireland:__ **= = **﻿Capital- Dublin** =

English is the language most spoken but Gaelic is also spoken in areas along the western seaboard.
**The religion most practiced is Roman Catholic.**

** Natural resources in Ireland are: natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, and dolomite. **



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1/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream 12 oz semisweet chocolate chips 1/4 cup heavy cream 1 Tablespoon butter 2 egg yolks Melt chocolate over very low heat. Stir in Bailey's cream. Beat egg yolks, stir a small amount of chocolate mixture into eggs, then slowly add the eggs to the chocolate mixture. Mixture will thicken. Add butter. Refrigerate overnight, or several hours. Using two large spoons or a small ice cream scoop, form small balls. Roll in powdered sugar, then cocoa.

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