Re: [lace-chat] Walnut shaped cookies recipe needed
Sharon, this sounds very much like a recipe I've seen in one of my books at home. Does your friend have any Middle Eastern connections? I recall a kind of cookie made in a mold (I think it had nuts in it but I'm not positive) that would melt in your mouth because it was made with very high proportions of icing sugar and butter. I'll look for the recipe when I get home. Best wishes, Avital Hi lacers, While shopping, a friend found some walnut shaped cookie molds and she remarked on these really scrumptious walnut shaped cookies her aunt used to make. The cookie molds sadly, didnapos;t have a recipe with them and she was reluctant to buy the molds unless she was sure of having a recipe to use with them. The cookie she remembers, looks exactly like a walnut on the outside, but itapos;s a light melt in your mouth kind of cookie. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Ghouribi cookie recipe
Sharon, Now I see that I was conflating two different recipes. The ones that I recall that were made in a mold were filled cookies. These are the melt-in-your-mouth walnut cookies. They're very easy and quite good. Believe me, they're incredible when made with butter. Avital GHOURIBI (MOROCCAN SUGAR COOKIES) SOURCE: The Jewish Holiday Kitchen by Joan Nathan 1988 p. 227 Schocken Books NY ISBN 0-8052-0900-X Yield: 30 servings 1 cup vegetable oil or butter 1 cup sugar 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1/3 cup finely ground walnuts or almonds Cinnamon 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly flour an ungreased cookie sheet. 2. Place oil and sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Gradually add the flour, a cup at a time, and knead well. Blend in the nuts. 3. When the dough feels mooth, use the palm of your hand to roll it into balls the size of an egg. Pat into a round cookie about 2 inches in diameter. The cookies should not be flat. 4. Place on the cookie sheet and sprinkle the center of each cookie with cinnamon. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Do not let the cookies become even slightly brown; they must remain off-white. *A Turkish variation uses cocoa instead of cinnamon and is sprinkled with powdered sugar. These cookies can also be shaped into crescents. NOTE: On Purim morning, Moroccan Jews decorate their tables with flowers and sweet delicacies such as ghouribi. Children especially enjoy making thes treats as they can roll the dough with their hands. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] walnut-filled cookies
Sharon, This is the other recipe I was thinking of. These cookies are made in a mold and stuffed with walnuts. Avital MA'AMOUL - NUT FILLED COOKIES MAKES 35-40 INGREDIENTS FOR THE DOUGH: 2½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour ½ cup semolina 2½ sticks parve margarine or 2 sticks butter 2 tsp vegetable oil ¼ - ½ cup water INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING: 1½ cups roughly ground walnuts 1 tsp cinnamon ½ cup sugar Directions: Combine the flour, semolina, margarine, and vegetable oil. Add the water gradually. Blend well. (A food processor is splendid for this.) Cover and set aside for 10 - 15 minutes in the refrigerator. Combine the walnuts with the cinnamon and sugar. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Either use the ma'amoul mold described above or take a piece of dough about the size of a walnut. Roll it into a ball and hollow out the center. Inside, place a heaping teaspoon of walnut filling. With your hands, mold the dough closed. Place each cookie on an ungreased cookie sheet. With the tines of a fork or tweezers with a serrated edge, make designs on the top of the cookie, being sure not to penetrate the crust. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes. Do not brown; the cookies should look white. Cool. When hard, roll in confectioners' sugar. Source: http://www.kosherdelight.com/Purimrecipes16.htm To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] doodad
thanks to everyone who helped me find the instructions for the pillow doodad - and indeed sent me instructions - who needs a good memory when you are all availableg? jenny barron Scotland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Thanks to my Secret Pal
Dear Secret Pal: I am just getting back online from being unable to access my computer while I moved. I am slowly but surely catching up on all my lace emails. However, I was so glad that my computer is now up and working so that I could say thank you for your lovely gifts. I just received them yesterday. I have started a scrapbook of all of the postcards and goodies that you have sent me. This time, though, I've decided to frame the beautiful flower card. It certainly brightened my day and helped me to see springtime in the winter. I just love it. What is the name of the flower? I also really love the round hanky you sent with the violets on it. They are one of my favorite flowers and will grace my table very nicely. I always look forward to receiving your gifts - it is so nice that you put so much thought into your packages. Thank you again, Rita Lloyd In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. -Flora Edwards To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] wattle for ANZAC Day???
Dear Helene, Why wattle? It should be Flanders poppies for ANZAC Day! To be strictly correct, the Flanders poppies were originally used on Remembrance Day (Nov 11th). The strange thing is that these days I can never get one to flower until about Nov 25th! All the local nurseries agree with me. I wonder whether they might be just that week or two earlier down in Melbourne. They're certainly not out in April - shame. David - who wishes he could be a Frogozzie or somesuch - but alas is 6th generation. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE:Noelene's wonderful poetry
Hi All, I just wanted you to know that Noelene's latest poem about my foot surgery came about after I moaned to her about not being able to make lace outside in the gorgeous Denver sunshine (it was 70 on Monday), and that I was thirsty and hungry and still had 3 hours to go to surgery. She duly bucked up my spirits no end. :-) I did actually have a pathetic attempt at lacemaking yesterday. I finished laying the cordonnet on a NL bee I'm making as a teachers gift. Naturally the last part of the cordonnet was in black, wasn't it?! i squeezed in my puny effort after I'd had my pain medication has just kicked in hour long nap :-) I might try some more NL another day while I have my foot up and the cryo-cuff on, chilling my foot. And Liz in Melbourne, is now back on line (hi, Mum :-) ) Cheers, Hop-a-long Helen, in Delightfully Springy Denver, where my first crocuses might burst forth with their yellow blooms today or 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: honiton teapot?
Gidday Mary and all, Hello Secret Pal,Thank you for yet anotherlovely present. The handkerchiefs I will probably edge after I complete the Honiton teapot which is under way.Thank you also for the little book and the post card from Luton. I look forward to getting to Hmmm, now I need to know about this please...a Honiton teapot? Is it a pattern we can all share? Please explain! Michelle an Aussie living in Richards Bay, South Africa where today I have made lace, designed lace and written about lace history..oh and cleaned toilets in between. Ian Chelle Long +27 35 788 0777 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thanks!
Thank you so much for the package you sent. The thread is beautiful ... I love the colors you have picked. I made a bookmark of the pink and green you sent. It's a kind of funky tape lace flower. It's my favorite bookmark of all that I've ever made... the only one yet that I've kept for myself! This afternoon I went shopping for the perfect book to go in the book cover you sent... I finally decided on Dr. Phil's diet book. It fits great and will be put to good use I hope :) Where did you find the material you used? It's so pretty! The rooster is absolutely adorable!! He sits in a place of honor on my countertop...such a cutie! Thank you again :) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Humour!
Wow! Some jokes (maybe real stories??) that I don't remember seeing on chat already ! Sue Babbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] A man comes into the ER and yells, My wife's going to have her baby in the cab! I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs, and I was in the wrong one. - -Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Antonio, TX At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. Big breaths, I instructed. Yes, they used to be, remorsefully replied the patient. - -Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a massive internal fart, - -Dr. Susan Steinberg, Manitoba, Canada I was performing a complete physical, including the visual acuity test. I placed the patient twenty feet from the chart and began: Cover your right eye with your hand. He read the 20/20 line perfectly. Now, Left, I said. Again, a flawless read. Now both, I requested. There was silence. He couldn't even read the large letter on the top line. I turned and discovered that he had done exactly what I had asked; he was standing there with both his eyes covered. I was laughing too hard to finish the exam. - -Dr. Matthew Theodropolous, Worcester, MA During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. Which one? I asked.The patch.The nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it! I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see. Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body! Since incident, the instructions now include removal of the old patch before applying a new one. - -Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, How long have you been bedridden? After a look of complete confusion she answered Why, not for about twenty years -- when my husband was alive, - -Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, So, how's your breakfast this morning? It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste, the patient replied. I then asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a packet labeled KY Jelly. -Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI A new, young MD when doing his residency in OB,was quite embarrassed performing female pelvic exams. To cover his embarrassment he had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling The middle aged lady upon whom he was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassed him. He looked up from his work and sheepishly said, I'm sorry. Was I tickling you? She replied, No, doctor, but the song you were whistling was 'I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener.' To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
