[lace-chat] Secret Pal thanks
Thank you so much for your wonderful package. Just one complaint, why only a picture of your beautiful cat - I want to adopt the real thing! Seriously though, I love the calendar, I did not have one to keep on my desk this year, so he will be accompanying me to the office. The chocolate will be consumed despite the calories, and enjoyed too. The beads are beautiful shades of blue, and will brighten bobbins one day soon (I tend to wait until I have a few bobbins to spangle and then do the lot in one go). The book was a wonderful surprise. I have not done much tape lace (I mainly concentrate on torchon or pointground), but the designs are so pretty that I know I will enjoy trying them out. Thank you once again, and I am sorry for not being able to respond in better time last month. Maryanne Ulverstone Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Using Maple Syrup?
Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of the sugar maple tree. The sap is collected in the Spring, when the nights are below freezing and the days above. Then the sap is boiled for ages to make the syrup or boiled forever to make maple sugar. It's a staple in my kitchen. I use it on ice cream, pancakes or crepes, as a glaze for carrots or ham, a sweetener for grapefruit. The following web site has information about the history of maple syrup, how it is made, and some recipes: http://www.maple-erable.qc.ca/sirop.html This site has lots of recipes: http://www.ontariomaple.com/recipes.html Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Hot Cross buns again
My friend's favourite Easter-time question is: What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole? wait for it you've probably guessed by now HOT CROSS BUNNIES!! Malvary in Ottawa, where it is snowing again this morning. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Starching
To my more experienced lace friends-- I have just finished making my first heart from the book "24 Hearts In Bobbin Lace" and I now have to starch it. I have starched items before by taking them off the pillow and then having to re-pin all over again (sometimes not even putting the pin in every hole). Now I want some in-put into this please. Do you remove the item from the pillow first or not? First one is done and now I have to figure out how to weave them together!!! EEEK! Barbara To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Puzzle ring solution
Dear Jean, This morning I undid the wire and let it fall apart to clean it. I used to be able to put it back together so quickly, but this morning took five attempts before I managed it. Wish I still had nimble fingers. I shall be checking the website you gave as after saving the instructions from the one I found it still took me some 4 hours to get the wretched thing back together. And although it looks OK from the top, I'm not altogether happy as there is still a cross-over on the side that I don't think is supposed to be there. That sure is strange that we should both be working on this together. David in Ballarat http://www.walshbrothers.co.uk/Update/puzzle_ring_solution.htm Really spooky that when I got my emails in this evening, there's mention of another puzzle ring. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Starching
Barbara I don't know where you are and how easily you can get a plastic carrier bag. UK supermarkets use them. simply cover your pillow with the plastic bag, cutting out a big enough hole to show your completed lace and spray starch it. I have done this successfully without starching my pillow. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: English Lace mag
G'day All, Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet? I keep hearing about the fans on the cover from Mum in Oz - so hers has arrived - but mine hasn't. Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in dazzlingly brrr-isk Denver To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE: English Lace mag
No, but the Young lacemaker has arrived a couple of days ago. I recall someone in the UK saying that their YLM arrived a few days before Lace. So I am waiting with enthusiasm for today's mail! Sue - Original Message - From: "Helen Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: [lace-chat] RE: English Lace mag > G'day All, > > Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet? I keep > hearing about the fans on the cover from Mum in Oz - so hers has arrived > - but mine hasn't. > > Cheers, > Helen, Aussie living in dazzlingly brrr-isk Denver > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Starching
At 05:04 AM 2/12/2004, you wrote: Do you remove the item from the pillow first or not? Barbara, I remove the item from the pillow and re-pin it on cardboard covered with plastic wrap or wax paper. After reading about people who starched things on the pillow so they didn't have to be re-pinned, I tried it. The starch seeped through the pinholes and got on my pillow. I was very unhappy. Maybe I use heavier starch, or something. However, to be sure that never happened again, I do the extra effort of re-pinning each item on a surface that won't matter if it gets starched. The corrugated cardboard will hold the pins just enough to hold the shape, and the plastic wrap keeps the starched lace from sticking to the cardboard. This cardboard method also works if a piece of lace just needs pinned out while it dries. I've had to pin some needlelace items for them to hold their shape long enough to dry. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- where we have the last day of sunshine before the next storm comes in. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: :-) Did you know?
Well, I know some of the statements are true, but I know that the Canadian two dollar bill when it existed had a Canadian flag flying over the parliament buildings. Depending on the year of the bill it would have either a union Jack or the Ontario flag flying over Parliament, never the American flag. Since the $2 bill has been out of circulation for some time now, I had to dig out the old ones I'd saved just to check. They were newer ones so the flag is a Maple Leaf, definitely Canadian. >On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the >Parliament building is an American flag. Sharon in cold and wintery Toronto To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: maple syrup
Lucky you! I'm drooling! Waffles, whipped cream, butter and maple syrup - pour it over the top. Go lightly - it's rich. Also great over pancakes (flapjacks) and vanilla ice cream (but so is the best balsamic vinegar, my dear MIL assures me!) Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in b-iskly sunny Denver To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup
Okay.. being a Canuck to whom it never even /occured/ to that maple syrup wasnt a universal substance.. I have to ask.. What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup? Inquiring minds want to know! Heather -- who remembers pouring fresh hot syrup on clean snow in the sugar bush as a kid for a wonderful sticky treat. :) - Original Message - From: "Helen Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup > Lucky you! I'm drooling! Waffles, whipped cream, butter and maple > syrup - pour it over the top. Go lightly - it's rich. Also great over > pancakes (flapjacks) and vanilla ice cream (but so is the best balsamic > vinegar, my dear MIL assures me!) > > Cheers, > Helen, Aussie living in b-iskly sunny Denver > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: :-) Did you know?
Hello all, I thought I'd address this one. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Babies are born with many of their bones at the stage of calcified cartilage. Knee caps included. As they grow up ossification occurs and cartilage is replaced by bone. For the long bones, the tubular shaft ossifies first and then within the cartilage ends, bone is produced from the centre out. The cartilage at the ends of the shaft is responsible for lengthening the bones. By the end of our teens or so, our bones have completely ossified. I learned this in an anatomy class that I took as my science requirement for my degree (still working on it). Our text book was a colouring book, what fun. Heather In sunny Abbotsford, BC Near Vancouver To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] more re: maple syrup
When my daughter was taking some post-secondary education, it came out (reliably, though off-topic) that maple syrup can serve as "emergency rations". Evidently a person can survive for 30 days on one tablespoon (presumably per day). Just a piece of trivia. Rose-Marie Abbotsford, BC, Canada sunny, warm, and crocuses are coming out. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup
> > What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup? > Maple syrup is available in England - and the best always seemed to come from Canada. Before I discovered maple syrup, I would have used Golden syrup ( a cane sugar derivative) on Scotch pancakes (i.e. small, but thick pancakes, similar to those served here in Chicago at breakfast time) or possibly jam (jelly to Americans! ). Jelly to English people is either Jell-O or strained preserves so there are no pips or skins etc in the preserve. (Have I confused y'all?!) Chocolate sauce and whipped cream are also good on waffles. Mercifully (at least as far as I am concerned) corn syrup is not much used in the UK. I have still not developed a taste for it and even go so far as to read ingredient labels to check that corn syrup is not included. Sue (An Englishwoman enjoying life in Chicago, as long as she can avoid corn syrup!!!) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup
Okay.. being a Canuck to whom it never even /occured/ to that maple syrup wasnt a universal substance.. I have to ask.. What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup? Ditto on this question! Born and raised in Michigan, I made my own maple syrup in the girl scouts, and can't imagine life without it! It takes LOTS and LOTS of maple sap. We collected it in 30 gallon (clean) metal trash cans, and then boiled it down. It was clear and thin, like water. I think the concentrate level is something like 80 gallons of sap to a gallon of syrup. The result is a beautiful amber syrup with a distinctive flavor. It puts Lyle's golden syrup to shame. :-> When I go visit my family in England I always take along a gallon of maple syrup as a treat. Along with Nutter Butters, and Chicken Rice A Roni. :-> Although I never heard of balsamic vinegar on vanilla ice cream - it sounds pretty good! Vasna in sunny Boulder, Colorado, where the recent snowfall is blinding... Inquiring minds want to know! Heather -- who remembers pouring fresh hot syrup on clean snow in the sugar bush as a kid for a wonderful sticky treat. :) - Original Message - From: "Helen Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup > Lucky you! I'm drooling! Waffles, whipped cream, butter and maple > syrup - pour it over the top. Go lightly - it's rich. Also great over > pancakes (flapjacks) and vanilla ice cream (but so is the best balsamic > vinegar, my dear MIL assures me!) > > Cheers, > Helen, Aussie living in b-iskly sunny Denver > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vasna Zago Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Maple Syrup
On Shrove Tuesday (traditional pancake day in the UK to use up fat and eggs - rich ingredients - before Lent), large thinnish pancakes are traditionally served with sugar sprinkled and lemon squeezed over them, and then they're rolled up into a tube before having mouthfulls cut off with a fork and straight into the mouth. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] hot cross buns
Ok ya'll, I don''t want to sound stupidbut, what exactly are hot cross buns. Are they only available through a bakery or can one make them thereselves? If I could make them myself, where would I get the recipe? Sorry so stupid. :) Lynn Wfalconsmate Clarksburg, West Virginia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] hot cross buns
Lynn wrote: I don''t want to sound stupidbut, what exactly are hot cross buns. Are they only available through a bakery or can one make them thereselves? If I could make them myself, where would I get the recipe? Sorry so stupid. :) They're basically a bun, a rich, somewhat sweet, soft dough, kinda cinnamony, that have what I not so affectionately call "Those Things" in them - raisins and citron. (Citron is that green stuff, right?) Then, the top is iced with confectioner sugar icing in the shape of a cross. They usually come out for Easter, hence the "cross" shape on the top, and the name. They can either be very delicious or really bad, depending on where you get them, and I think most grocery stores carry them a bit later in the year (or not, according to recent threads_. We used to get ours from a bakery when I was growing up and they were very good. At least I remember liking them. You could probably find a recipe on the net. Vasna Zago Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] starching
Well, I'm not known as the "starching queen" for nothing :) I starch just about everything in sight..and not successfully :( Starching lace is great, it makes lace look so crisp that it hides all kinds of mistakes :) Anyway, while I can't tell you the correct way of starching, I can give a few comments on what not to do :) First off, don't soak the lace with starch..some threads shrink too much, and if the lace isn't pinned down it'll look awful. Don't spray rayon threads..they run and loose their sheen. Even if you have plastic film over your pricking, and leave the lace pinned to it, too much starch will run under the film through the pinholes. That creates a bit of a mess, especially if the pricking was done on a photocopier..ink will bleed upwards. Too much starch will fill in the blanks in lace and also make them look like they are filled with thin glass. You can get around that one by dabbing the lace with a damp cloth after to dissolve the excess :) So there you are, all this learned from personal experience :) Now I really would like someone to tell me the "proper" way to apply starch too :) Sharon on sunny Vancouver Island To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Hot cross bun recipe
Hot cross buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, adopted by Christians from pagan rituals. They're spicy fruit buns with a cross on the top. I think the hot comes from the fact that they're spicy, but I always though it was because, as a child, we had them warmed in the oven, cut open and butter spread on the two halves so it melted into the bun. There are a lot of recipes for hot cross buns on the web, but the ones I came across have the cross done in icing. The traditional ones from the baker have the cross done in what appears to be a darker dough, but I must admit, I've never know what the cross was made of - certainly not icing. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] maple syrup
When I lived in Montreal, I had 3 visitors from Texas. I took them out to a Creperie and they wouldn't even try maple syrup on their crepes. They ate them dry. Ugh. On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 02:50 PM, Jazmin wrote: What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup? Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] True or False?
A bit of trivia for you!! True or False Can you guess which of the following are true or false? 1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. 3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. 4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. 5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop - even your heart! 6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties. 7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. 8. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. 9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. 10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. 11. The average housefly lives for one month. 12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. 13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. 14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. 15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. 16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep. 17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. 18. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot. 19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie". 20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem. 21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. 22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. 23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. 24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery. 25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins. 26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green. Answers below. ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE !!! ( #16 really bugs me ) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] True or False?
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. I don't understand this one. Was he BEAMED here from outer space or something??? Hatched from an egg? How can any person born of a woman not have a navel? Vasna Zago Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] True or false
Prince Charles and Prince William don't usually travel on the same plane in case it crashes - we can't have the next in line and th next in line to the throne both killed at the same time. BUT They were allowed to travel on the same plane, and did, when Diana died. so never is incorrect. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] True or False?
It is surely not possible to be without a belly button given that is where the umbilical cord, providing sustenance to the baby from the mother, enters the baby. I would have thought no umbilical cord no viable baby. Or does this simply mean there is a tiny protrusion rather than an indentation? Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] True or False?
Inquiring minds want to know... and so they "google"... According to the first site I found, "He had his bellybutton surgically removed, because, according to him, he thought they were disgusting." And we thought his films were bizarre... Clay > It is surely not possible to be without a belly button given that is where > the umbilical cord, providing sustenance to the baby from the mother, enters the > baby. I would have thought no umbilical cord no viable baby. > > Or does this simply mean there is a tiny protrusion rather than an > indentation? > > Patricia in Wales > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup
Well, the *best* pancakes (IMHO) are topped with lemon juice and castor sugar!! But my adult children like them with honey.Maple syrup is available in Australia, but I find it too sweet (which is probably why I don't like the honey on pancakes). Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Jazmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay.. being a Canuck to whom it never even /occured/ to that maple syrup wasnt a universal substance.. I have to ask.. What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup? Inquiring minds want to know! Heather -- who remembers pouring fresh hot syrup on clean snow in the sugar bush as a kid for a wonderful sticky treat. :) - Original Message - From: "Helen Bell" To: Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup > Lucky you! I'm drooling! Waffles, whipped cream, butter and maple > syrup - pour it over the top. Go lightly - it's rich. Also great over > pancakes (flapjacks) and vanilla ice cream (but so is the best balsamic > vinegar, my dear MIL assures me!) > > Cheers, > Helen, Aussie living in b-iskly sunny Denver > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Hot cross bun recipe
About 40 years ago, I had a go at making my own Hot Cross Buns - and the cross was made of a mixture of plain flour and water, mixed to a stiff paste. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Jean Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a lot of recipes for hot cross buns on the web, but the ones I > came across have the cross done in icing. The traditional ones from the > baker have the cross done in what appears to be a darker dough, but I must > admit, I've never know what the cross was made of - certainly not icing. > > Jean in Poole http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Hot cross bun recipe
For Lynn, and others who would like to see a variety of recipes, I highly recommend the following website... just enter "Hot Cross Buns" in the search, and you'll get several options. I do a fair amount of bread baking, and swear by these people!! http://ww2.kingarthurflour.com/cgibin/htmlos.cgi/40155.1.1253705695334784292? Clay - Original Message - From: "Ruth Budge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Hot cross bun recipe > About 40 years ago, I had a go at making my own Hot Cross Buns - and the cross > was made of a mixture of plain flour and water, mixed to a stiff paste. > > Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) > > Jean Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a lot of > recipes for hot cross buns on the web, but the ones I > > came across have the cross done in icing. The traditional ones from the > > baker have the cross done in what appears to be a darker dough, but I must > > admit, I've never know what the cross was made of - certainly not icing. > > > > Jean in Poole > > > http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings > Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE! > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: mathom
The most succinct definition of "mathom" I've heard was on Star Trek -- Scotty said he'd tested the transporter with assorted mathoms, and it was working. Someone asked him what a mathom was, and he said, "A useless object -- more's the pity." It was a popular hippie word in the sixties. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Using Maple Syrup?
At 07:13 AM 2/12/04 -, Linda Walton wrote: >recently, my next-door neighbour went on holiday to Canada, and has brought >me back a gift of some maple syrup. What is it? Please will anyone suggest >how I might use it? Pour it on anything that you want to taste sweet, but sparingly -- it's expensive. You can also use it to flavor baked goods. In the US, maple syrup and butter are a traditional topping for buckwheat pancakes. (Put the butter on first, then the syrup.) Pour a little out into a teaspoon and taste it, then you'll know what you want to eat it on. If the flavor is too strong to suit you, dilute it with any bland syrup. (It's often sold mixed with cane syrup or corn syrup to make it cheaper.) -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Maple Syrup
Jean, Just for a moment, and I mean a moment, this coeliac could taste the slightly burnt and sweet caramel and sharp lemon of a pancake - all in her head - boy now there is something I miss not being able to eat ... but I've got some gluten free pancake mix in the cupboard and from next tuesday I'll be in my new flat with my aussie and I can make some. Oh boy ... Liz Jean Nathan wrote: > On Shrove Tuesday (traditional pancake day in the UK to use up fat and > eggs - rich ingredients - before Lent), large thinnish pancakes are > traditionally served with sugar sprinkled and lemon squeezed over > them, and > then they're rolled up into a tube before having mouthfulls cut off > with a > fork and straight into the mouth. > > Jean in Poole -- Regards Liz B To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Using Maple Syrup?
Never - this is heresy to a true-blooded Canadian. On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 08:54 PM, Joy Beeson wrote: If the flavor is too strong to suit you, dilute it with any bland syrup. (It's often sold mixed with cane syrup or corn syrup to make it cheaper.) Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: True or False?
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE !!! ( #16 really bugs me ) Bullhonky. Or, perhaps, the second pack a day puts them back in I've been smoking 2 packs-a-day for almost 40 yrs (started March '66, with half a pack, and built up to two by June 67, when I "came out of the closet"). Should have lost 7-8 teeth by now, but haven't lost *one* so far. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Maple syrup
Hi All, I have to add that Vermont maple syrup is also very good! After all there is a guy out checking his sap buckets on our state quarter. Here's the "official" website http://www.vermontmaple.org/ I googled for recipes and there are a lot out there. I have a very good one for Maple Cup Custard, baked custard (milk & egg custard) with maple flavor. I took maple sugar candy to some people in Oregon and they weren't quite sure what to do with it! You can eat that straight. Jane in Vermont, USA where sugaring season is approaching! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: A little "doctor" humor for ya....
Came from a chat-list member privately, but I think it's funny (and respectable enough) for everyone... From: T.W. A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral. A huge heart covered in flowers stood behind the casket during the service. Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the casket rolled inside. The heart then closed, sealing the doctor in the beautiful heart forever. At that point, one of the mourners burst into laughter. When all eyes stared at him, he said, "I'm sorry; I was just thinking of my own funeral; I'm a gynecologist." And that's when the proctologist fainted. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: mathom
I used it in my message; Tolkien popularized it (hobbits gave gifts to OTHERS on their birthdays, and most people gave mathoms). However, he did not invent the word. It exists in Middle English (see madmes in the Middle English Dictionary), coming from Old English mathmas (sorry, the th here is really an eth, the d with a bar through the stem, but if I type it, most of you will get an empty square or something). In Old and Middle English it meant treasures or valuables. A madm-hus was a treasure-house. So originally it was good stuff, but not perhaps practical Tolkien was by profession a linguistic and scholar of Middle English, and he mined his knowledge deeply! The most succinct definition of "mathom" I've heard was on Star Trek -- Scotty said he'd tested the transporter with assorted mathoms, and it was working. Someone asked him what a mathom was, and he said, "A useless object -- more's the pity." It was a popular hippie word in the sixties. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Maple syrup
""and vanilla ice cream (but so is the best balsamic vinegar, my dear MIL assures me!)"" --- Vinegar on Ice cream??? Yu Maple Syrup --- that I can understand!!! :)) :)) from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Panckaes
A squeeze of lemon, and a spoonful of sugar, are the best on ancakes!! -Roll them up, and enjoy Jam is a good substitute, though!! - or Marmalade. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] mathom
Bev said: > learn in Lord of the Rings (on or about pg. 65), is an item which is not > necessarily useful but which you don't want to throw away." In that case Bev, I think I will rename our house as Mathom Mansion. Lynn Scott, in another hot day in Wollongong, just happy to have found a friend to slog away in my garden - yippee! more time for lace, sewing, and I suppose the office bookwork. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] re: maple syrup
Some years ago a friend visited Canada and brought us back a sealed jar of the real thing. I opened it and used it once but next time I looked it had gone mouldy. The question is should it be refrigerated? (It didn't say so on the label) and if so it can't be much good as rations. Anyway lemon juice and sugar is definitely the best thing for pancakes - except maybe cheese and vegemite Happy Valentines day Helen Frederiksen In overcast humid Perth WA - Original Message - From: "Haddad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:56 AM Subject: [lace-chat] more re: maple syrup > When my daughter was taking some post-secondary education, it came out > (reliably, though off-topic) that maple syrup can serve as "emergency > rations". Evidently a person can survive for 30 days on one tablespoon > (presumably per day). > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE: maple syrup
When I first came to Australia I was very surprised to find out that many Aussie's don't eat pancakes/flapjacks for breakfast like North Americans. They are a more dense mixture (I think Aussie flour is alot heavier) and come in many other forms. I love the pikelets, which are a mini pancake served cold with jam and whipped cream, more like an appetizer. The other surprise was how good pancakes taste with lemon juice and sugar, and you don't eat them with a fork, as they are smaller you pick them up with your fingers - yum. I still hold out tho' and have maple syrup (which I bring back in huge quantities) and butter. The DH only cooks two things, scones and those lovely filling dense pancakes - of course, he doesn't clean up after himself but they are worth the mess. Lynn Scott in Wollongong, Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] re: maple syrup
Helen, maple syrup keeps really well in the freezer, and doesn't go solid. Lynn Scott, Wollongong To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: pancake toppings
Well, pancakes to me (before I came to the US) we like crepes, so you rolled them up with a jam filling or sprinkled on sugar and a squeeze of fresh lemon (The Best :-) ). But since coming here, my horizons have expanded to include flapjacks/pancakes. As a kid, you'd go to a birthday party and have drop scones that were buttered - they're petite versions of flapjacks/pancakes (sorry trying to be bilingual and not confusing here). We'd have butter or whipped cream on waffles (don't think I ever had one with Vegemite :-) ) maybe golden syrup too. I've since discovered that a knob of real butter, whipped cream and maple syrup on a pancake or waffle is pretty darn good! :-) And strawberries, cream and a splash of triple sec makes a crepe taste pretty good too :-) Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in Denver To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] True or false
thought that would start some discussions :-) The belly button... I wonder if he had to have it surgically removed for some reason. I must admit I wondered if he was the "original alien"... some of his writings do have a rather peculiar twist! Maxine, who came out of lurking, in a dry and sunny N.Z., although rain is predicted AGAIN tomorrow. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Maple syrup
Alas, I was raised on plain sugar syrup (at first, made at home with brown sugar, white sugar, and water, now store-bought)... and I've never QUITE gotten used to real maple syrup. But I absolutely love plain maple sugar candy (often molded into small men and women - somewhat like gingerbread people -, maple leaves, or small intricate candy shapes. It, too, is quite expensive, so I can't get it very often. -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Hot Cross Buns, and Prince William...
My husband has made all our Hot Cross Buns for some years, now, and the crosses on them are made with a lighter, non-yeast dough. Good Friday wouldn't be the same without them! We both learned to bake bread at the same evening class... my breads, made exactly to the recipe, were not too bad... but Ian's, made with a "Well, that looks/feels right" attitude, and less attention to the recipe, were (and are) great! And Prince William visited New Zealand as a baby, travelling on the same 'plane as his parents... Erica, in Hokitika, New Zealand Westland District Library Hokitika, New Zealand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our website at http://www.minidata.co.nz/westlib --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 06/02/04 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: English Lace mag
On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:09, Helen Bell wrote: Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet? Not me, but mine usually arrives about a week after the UK "sightings", so I hope for it before the week's over. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: English Lace mag
And here in Australia, Liz in Melbourne has had her magazine for days now, and I'm still waiting!!! Boo Hoo!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:09, Helen Bell wrote: > Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet? Not me, but mine usually arrives about a week after the UK "sightings", so I hope for it before the week's over. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: maple syrup
On Feb 12, 2004, at 22:23, lynn (Scott in Oz) wrote: When I first came to Australia I was very surprised [...] When I first came to US, I was dismayed to discover that my dictionary *lied*; it said that "nalesniki" were "pancakes", and they're *not -- they're "crepes". The closest we have to American "pancakes" are "placki" (or "placuszki", if one's from the Warsaw region, where almost every noun is used in the diminutive form), and they're quite different, even so... about half size and, usually, "filled" -- mostly with apple "chips" mixed into the batter. What's known here as "blintzes" are "placki" also, though potato ones... We didn't eat *either* for breakfast -- both were either lunch food or deserts. And we didn't have either maple or corn syrups; we did have fruit syrups, but those were used (a TBs per 250ml) for soda drinks... "Placki" were slathered with a sour cream/sugar mix, "nalesniki" (crepes) were smeared with a filling (sweet or savoury) and then either rolled or folded "in quarters"... I make "apple pancakes" (placki) more or less regularly; all of my American family seem to like them, so, whenever someone visits... :) "Nalesniki" (crepes), I fix only for myself, as comfort food, whenever I feel sick; I don't want anyone to "discover" them, as they're so much more trouble to fix As for syrups... I like *both* the maple and the corn (both being enough of taste-buds novelty, I suppose). I pour the corn (with just a tad of maple mixed in) on my waffles, when I crave sugar. With maple, I just dribble a teaspoonful or so into a saucer, then dip my finger in it and suck until it's all gone... :) - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] this one gave me a good laugh
"THE KNOB": A woman told her surgeon that she wasn't pleased how she looked. The surgeon told her about a new procedure called "The Knob," where a small knob is placed on the back of a woman's head and can be turned to tighten up her skin to produce the effect of a brand new face lift. Of course, the woman wanted "The Knob". Over the course of the years, the woman tightened the knob, and the effects were wonderful - the woman remained young looking and vibrant. After fifteen years, the woman returned to the surgeon with two problems. "All these years, everything has been working just fine. I've had to turn the knob many times and I've always loved the results. But now I've developed two annoying problems: First, I have these terrible bags under my eyes and the knob won't get rid of them." The doctor looked at her closely and said, "Those aren't bags, those are your breasts." She said, "Well, I guess there's no point in asking about the goatee." Darlene Mulholland --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.587 / Virus Database: 371 - Release Date: 12/02/2004 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Pancakes
My DH occasionally does pancakes the Hungarian way (or so he says) and makes a stack of them (they are thin like crepes) with a different filling between them - jam, honey, nuts, etc. and pours over some liqueur, cream, ice-cream, whatever!. It is then cut in wedges like a cake, and each person gets a wedge with a variety of fillings. Helen in Denver will remember them :) from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] maple syrup
Yes, once opened maple syrup should be refrigerated. On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:09 PM, Helen & Keld Frederiksen wrote: The question is should it be refrigerated? Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Feline Physics!
Feline Physics Laws Law of Cat Inertia A cat at rest will tend to remain at rest, unless acted upon by some outside force - such as the opening of cat food, or a nearby scurrying mouse. Law of Cat Motion A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction. Law of Cat Magnetism All blue blazers and black sweaters attract cat hair in direct proportion to the darkness of the fabric. Law of Cat Thermodynamics Heat flows from a warmer to a cooler body, except in the case of a cat, in which case all heat flows to the cat. Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. Law of Cat Sleeping All cats must sleep with people whenever possible, in a position as uncomfortable for the people involved, and as comfortable as possible for the cat. Law of Cat Elongation A cat can make her body long enough to reach just about any counter top that has anything remotely interesting on it. Law of Cat Obstruction A cat must lay on the floor in such a position to obstruct the maximum amount of human foot traffic. Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. Law of Dinner Table Attendance Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served. Law of Rug Configuration No rug may remain in its naturally flat state for very long. Law of Obedience Resistance A cat's resistance varies in proportion to a human's desire for her to do something. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
