When I was a child growing up in India, every year my father took my mother and me to the village where he grew up. He thought it was important for us kids to see rural living and to learn how basic life could be.
His village, Dev Gaon, is about 60 miles from Lucknow — the city where I was born . We usually took a bus for about two hours to get there. When we arrived at my grandmother's house, we saw her waiting in the yard.She had a U-shaped stove(炉子) that was made of earth and nothing else. She threw dried cow dung cakes, along with wood, into the stove to start the fire.
The dried cow dung cakes(牛粪饼) came from the cows she owned. As a kid, I stood and watched how other women from the village, collected the dung from the barn, mixed it with hay and rolled it into large balls and then made in a cake. It took about three days for the cow dung to dry. Even in the city of Lucknow, I have seen cow dung drying on walls in some streets and in some areas, I have seen people using it to cook. That's not a good thing. Cow dung cakes can create a lot of smoke and pollution.
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