Tea for Tuesday - Elephant Teapot

Day three of elephant appreciation...

This teapot was the first elephant object I bought.  I found it at Pier One years ago, when not many places were selling teapots.  I used to buy every teapot I found, until they became popular and I could be more selective.

Orphan infant elephants are difficult to raise because they are completely dependent on their mother's milk for their first two years, and partially dependent for another two.  Daphne Sheldrick and her husband David, founding warden of Tsavo East National Park in Kenya, spent decades trying to find a formula that matched the mother's milk.  They finally had success, shortly before David's death, in 1977.

Their recipe was a mixture of human baby formula and coconut.  But this recipe works as well:
9.5 pints raw cow's milk
9.5 ounces cream
24 egg whites
4 pounds well-boiled rice water