There are few absolute absolutes.
Only in vodka? (G)
Even Absolut vodka is only 40%-odd alcohol,
and "absolute ethanol" is only around 98%.
I seriously doubt it, as work-at-home was looked at
very suspiciously until recently.
But in small rural communitites, it was one way to have a phone
service.
I've not heard of that; it would have to have been on
a very local basis in very rural areas. Not that it
wouldn't have made sense, of course.
It was (and I think still is) locally owned by a couple of families.
That makes a bit of difference; the big guys aren't involved in how it's
run.
I wonder how the small telephone companies got started and how
long they managed to survive as independents or codependents.
Almost always things get spoiled when the big fish swallows
the little fish. The Ghirardelli takeover by Lindt hasn't
caused major suffering so far, but the eating up of Scharffen
Berger by Hershey bodes ill.
more about the atmosphere and the company than about
the sport, especially since I can't see the ball
any more unless it's stationary, which it's not much
of the time, else it would be a really boring game.
I'd enjoy going to games, given the chance. Steve isn't that into sports
so we don't go, unless with a group as we did a few years ago.
At the major league level, an outing is a massive expense,
even at spring training. When visiting Rosemary, we can still
watch the Newport Gulls, though, for $2 (I don't know if that's
regular price or the senior rate).
Seems they've all gone that way; I used to get Good Housekeeping and Reader's Digest but let the subscriptions expire a few years ago.
I found Good Housekeeping the best of that kind of
magazines. Sometimes it had decent recipes, too.
I got one of my favorite pound cake recipies from one, years ago.
Couldn't find it (since located) a while back but did find the lemon
pound cake which has become another favorite.
Certainly a pound cake recipe should not be hard to find.
Back then, most households had at least one member who
could cook. I wonder what the point of food articles
would have been.
Hard to tell at this point.
It was an influential publication, and I did a little reading:
turns out there was more fashion and cultural stuff than
cooking stuff, but it agitated for a Thanksgiving holiday and
to that end printed recipes for many dishes that we associate
with holidays to this day.
Oh, then, probably not. No sensible longshoreman would
hike up a hill for a drink or five.
Didn't want to take a chance on staggering down hill, or maybe rolling
down if they lost their footing. (G)
It would make sense that the booze purveyors would stick to
the bottomlands. Easier to attract custom, and more difficult
to lose it to falls and other accidents.
I still have family in Germany; Steve wants to explore the region
his > mom's family came from (Calabria).
Sounds like a worthwhile plan.
We've talked about doing a Rhine river cruise too.
That could run into some bucks. Possibly worth it for
those of your heritage, even if you're not wine drinkers.
But I'm less connected than even most of the people on
this echo. I don't really mind this condition.
I'm not that connected but can find my way around some programs/internet.
I'm so not into it that I haven't words. It's good
there are no young relatives to try to educate me.
Your choice if you wish to accept the offer or not.
Even the making of the offer is a presumption!
I served beet greens to some guests recently. The good
news is that they didn't die.
But did they like the greens?
They didn't complain, the greens all disappeared, and nobody
seems to have died yet from them.
Sounds like they may have enjoyed the greens, more than you had thought
they would.
I admit that the dish was a repurposing of used greens
bought for salad, but I wouldn't have served them if I'd
been sure people wouldn't have liked them.
Pound Cake
categories: basic, dessert
servings: 12
2 c cake flour (not self-rising)
1 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
1 c butter or margarine
1 c sugar
4 lg eggs
1 1/2 ts vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325F. Grease and flour 9x5" metal
loaf pan.
In medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder,
and salt. In large bowl, with mixer on medium, beat
butter until creamy. Add sugar, and beat 5 min or
until light and creamy. Add eggs 1 at a time,
beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
Reduce speed to low; beat in flour mixture just
until combined.
Turn batter into prepared pan and spread evenly.
Bake 1 hr or until cake pulls away from sides of
pan and toothpick inserted in center of cake comes
out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 min. With
small knife, loosen cake from sides of pan; invert
onto wire rack; invert again right side up to cool
completely.
Variations
Spice Pound Cake: Prepare batter as above but use
1/3 c dark sugar and only 2/3 c granulated sugar.
Add 1 ts ground cinnamon, 1/2 ts ground ginger,
1/8 ts ground black pepper, and 1/8 ts ground
allspice to flour mixture. Bake as directed.
Black Pepper Pound Cake: Prepare batter as for
pound cake and add 3/4 ts ground black pepper
and 1 pn ground allspice to flour mixture. Bake
as directed.
Source: Good Housekeeping 12/12
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