It was being boiled in the basement of the store.
"If a pot is being boiled, at least it's an intricately-decorated pot on a spectacular fire".
In The Lepers, an orderly is described as being trapped "in a terrible kettle where he himself was being boiled away".
Instead he offered a curiously gruesome analogy: "I kind of slowly do it, like a frog that you stick in cold water and slowly turn up the heat so it never knows it's being boiled alive".
The optimal time to visit a sugar shack is in late winter when the syrup is being boiled, but many shacks offer meals year round.
Soon after the monks landed, the barley/oat strong ales were being boiled (distilled) in crude pot stills, thereby generating high-alcohol grain spirits that bore no resemblance whatsoever to what we know today as Scotch whisky.
Which means an awful lot of water is being boiled daily — only a portion of which is actually necessary, given most people aren't fastidious enough to boil only the quantity of liquid they actually need to fill their cup or teapot.
It's as if they were being boiled from the inside.
