[lace-chat] Twinkees
Being diabetic, it's fortunate that I'm not that keen on sweet stuff. I enjoted seeing the nurse squirm at my last check-up when we discussed diet and I told her that my diet is well-controlled - I eat a cream doughnut with a pill! Took her a few seonds to realise I wasnlt serious. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re Twinkies
Or real cream slices - two slabs of flaky pastry, each about a quarter of an inch thick with icing (frosting in the US) on the top layer, and sandwiched together with with an inch thick of real cream between the slabs. We have them too but they also have strawberry jam in with the cream, we call them Napoleon Slices. Shirley in Corio, Oz. sme...@iinet.net.au To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
Ok I give in what are S'mores??? Sue in East Yorkshire where it's cloudy. On 1 May 2013, at 01:48, Witchy Woman wrote: Enjoying the posts about Peeps and Twinkies. One of my friends buys up a bunch of Peeps after Easter and puts them away until the summer. Her favorite thing to do with them is toast them on a stick over the grill. The sugar carmelizes and the flavor is so much better than plain roasted marshmallows...especially if you put them in S'mores. Enjoy! To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
S'mores are a camping/bonfire sort of treat, at least that's how I remember them! You roast a marshmallow over a fire, until its all nice and gooey and toasty and then you sandwich it and a bit of chocolate between two graham crackers and enjoy. Sugar rush extraordinaire. :) Take care, Heather -- in sunny and warm SW Ontario On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk wrote: Ok I give in what are S'mores??? Sue in East Yorkshire where it's cloudy. On 1 May 2013, at 01:48, Witchy Woman wrote: Enjoying the posts about Peeps and Twinkies. One of my friends buys up a bunch of Peeps after Easter and puts them away until the summer. Her favorite thing to do with them is toast them on a stick over the grill. The sugar carmelizes and the flavor is so much better than plain roasted marshmallows...especially if you put them in S'mores. Enjoy! To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
On 5/1/13 9:10 AM, Sue Duckles wrote: Ok I give in what are S'mores??? A rather silly thing to do with a toasted marshmallow. When I go to that much trouble, I want to eat the marshmallow *plain*. (Not that I've toasted a marshmallow since before s'mores changed from cutesy to de rigueur. Sugar is bad for me when I'm not in the middle of a fifty-mile bike ride, and I consider twenty-five a major accomplishment these days.) Nowadays they actually eat the things inside the house! Made in a microwave yet. (Note: I did not write this until after seeing a serious answer posted.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
On 01/05/2013 13:42, Jazmin wrote: S'mores are a camping/bonfire sort of treat, at least that's how I remember them! You roast a marshmallow over a fire, until its all nice and gooey and toasty and then you sandwich it and a bit of chocolate between two graham crackers and enjoy. and again . graham crackers? Lesley To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] S'mores
- Original Message - From: Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk Ok I give in what are S'mores??? Oh, my You *have* been deprived.G Toast a marshmallow on the end of a stick over a fire, put warm soft golden brown (burned?) marshmallow on a square of graham cracker, put half a chocolate bar on top of the marshmallow, then another graham cracker... squeeze together a bit and enjoy!! They taste so good that you want some more. The hot marshmallow is supposed to slightly melt the chocolate so you have both a crunchy and a gooey treat at the same time. At IOLI conference in Costa Mesa, California, the Wednesday evening dinner (picnic) was served on the beach, and they had S'mores for desert. The beach had campfire circles so everyone could toast their own marshmallows. So.. it's not just for kids. G I grew up with these as normal campout treats family, girl scouts, church camp, etc. It takes a bit of skill to toast the marshmallow to golden brown without burning it. Too close to the coals and you have incineration. Too far back and it doesn't toast. Put it in flames and you have char on the outside without heating the inside. It's so popular in the USA that companies have taken the three flavors and made S'mores Ice Cream, and the local pie shop has S'mores Pie. There's probably more products out there. Alice in Oregon ... where I finally got my lace rainbow started and I think it will look great. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
On 5/1/13 11:18 AM, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: and again . graham crackers? A graham cracker is a cookie passing itself off as health food. Dr. Graham promoted the idea of faking whole-grain flour by adding wheat germ and wheat bran to unbleached flour, and invented a cracker that became very popular after sugar was added to the recipe and the bran and wheat germ were reduced or eliminated. I have heard that digestive biscuits are somewhat similar. -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where wild violets are in bloom. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Twinkees
So now what's Ding Dongs? My, you do have some strange food. I do know what a weaner is - we had a TV programme laughing at US public information films for teenagers. One was going for a weaner roast on the beach so they didn't get up to any mischief! I gather is some kind of sausage. Our public information films weren't aimed at teenagers, they were aimed at adults in case of nuclear strike. Seems when the 4 minute warning came, we were supposed to clothes all outside doors and windows. Unscrew all the inside doors from their door frames and arranged them to form a shelter in the innermost room. Then we had to get all of our pillow cases, go out into the garden and fill the pillow cases with soil to make bags to cover the sides and top of the shelter and get inside to protect ourselves from the nuclear blast - all in 4 minutes. Never mind that it would afford no protection at all. Now you can laugh at us. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Wieners, Ding Dongs, and Shelters
Hi Jean, Actually, they are not weaners but wienersas in Wien aka Vienna. They are also known as frankfurters as in from Frankfurt, or hot dogs (at least here in the US). My understanding is that these sausage-like meats originated in Vienna and/or Frankfurt (think wurst) and in the old days were sometimes accused of containing dog meat (hence hot dogs). Another story was that the hot dog name came from a resemblance to dachshunds, and was called by some dachshund sandwich. Read all about it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog You can read all about Dings Dongs here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Dongs It is one of several snack cakes made by the Hostess company (including Twinkies). They went bankrupt last year but have been bought and their products are expected to reappear in stores this summer. Vicki in Maryland who remembers practicing drills in elementary school of climbing under ours desks for protection from air raids, nuclear pestilence, and who knows what else...(-: -Original Message- From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Wed, May 1, 2013 1:19 pm Subject: [lace-chat] Twinkees So now what's Ding Dongs? My, you do have some strange food. I do know what a weaner is - .snip To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Twinkees
On 5/1/13 2:19 PM, Jean Nathan wrote: Now you can laugh at us. I wouldn't dare -- you might dig up one of *our* bomb-shelter designs. I don't recall any details, but I do recall my parents' derision -- fall-out shelter designs claimed to be good for two weeks of nuclear war, but none were any use for five minutes of tornado. Dad did suggest that a shelter that doubled as a root cellar would be a good idea, but I never heard of anybody building any shelter at all. For tornadoes, we went into the basement. On Palm Sunday (Wikipedia says it was 1965), one of my cousins was hit, and the family probably would have been killed if the storm hadn't dropped an old boxcar they had been using for storage into the cellar first, and that caught the other debris. Sometimes it bothers me that we can't have cellars in this neighborhood. (The water table is close to the surface. Last week swaths of my lawn were lower than the water table.) The daughter of a building contractor lives down the street in a house built by her father; it used a new-fangled construction method in which forms made of insulation are filled with re-inforced concrete, and he said it was tornado shelter all over. A summer cottage owned by my brother-in-law has a concrete storage shed built into the side of a hill, which he presumes was built as a storm cellar. -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
