[Bordermarch] 12th Night Weather Forecast

[Charles Netterville]

Heat everything to 90 degrees, hold for 15 to 20 minutes, then drain through a cheesecloth. The remaining curds are one of the simplest forms of house cheese. Sometimes translated (cottage cheese). Season to taste and serve warm with fruit wedges or toast points. 
Use lemon juice instead of the vinegar and you've got a period recipe for ricotta.It's for those days when your weather pickle calls for rain and you need something to do to while away the hours. This will make an ideal project.  
In joyful (and somewhat mischievous) service I remain, Elrique

--- On Wed, 12/9/09, Lathrop, Dave <David.Lathrop at valero.com> wrote:


From: Lathrop, Dave <David.Lathrop at valero.com>
Subject: [Bordermarch] 12th Night Weather Forecast
To: "Barony Bordermarch" <bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 2:01 PM


Greetings Bordermarch,

January 2nd, 12th Night, is by my reckoning less that 3.5 months away from today. I'm still trying to decide what type of dish HE Elisabeth will bring to supplement the pot-luck evening meal.

I'm very excited about the A&S stuff that's going to be happening during the day, we've already got several folks who have volunteered to teach some classes.

After many sleepless nights I finally found the jelly jar that contains the family weather pickle, it was in the very back of the fridge, hidden behind something sort of brownish! I decided to give the pickle a squeeze to see if I could get a weather forecast for our 12th Night gathering.

Those who are unfamiliar with pickle squeezing should become friends with Dr. Gherkins' best seller, " The Pickles in Our Lives".
If a pickle is to be used as a weather pickle it should be kept isolated from most of the common vegetables one finds in the home these days. A large jelly jar works just fine if you decide to use a smallish pickle. When the pickle is first placed in the jar add just a touch of salt to help with moisture retention.

Place a bowl of curdled buttermilk on a flat surface like a counter top, and add four small pieces of onion skin to the buttermilk, make sure that the onion skin remains floating on the surface.
Hold the pickle about 6 inches above the center of the bowl and lightly squeeze it until it makes a smallish squeaking sound. The squeaking is an indicator that the pickle has just released a drop of pickle juice into the bowl.
Make certain you start your timer as soon as the pickle drop hits the curdled buttermilk, this is the step that most picklologist mess up!

The acidic pickle drop will start separating the surface of the curdled buttermilk as soon as it touches it, thereby forcing the onion skins to float into equally spaced quadrants on the buttermilk.
The surface tension of the curdled buttermilk has now been compromised by the pickle juice drop, thereby causing the onion skins to sink beneath the buttermilk's surface.
Make a note of the time when the first onion skin completely disappears beneath the surface.

When only three skins are left, squeeze the pickle until another squeak is heard and another pickle drop hits the buttermilk.
If the remaining onion skins move to the center of the bowl it means there is a high probability of rain in the next few days, if the skins don't move at all it indicates that you didn't start your timer
correctly when the first pickle drop hit the buttermilk.

My forecast for January 2nd  calls for some clouds but no rain, and a slight chance of moderate temperature inversions around the noon hour. Due to incandescent lighting in the near vicinity of the event, the evening of January 2nd will not be dark.

Anyone and everyone, friends and family, and people you don't really know very well are invited to Bordermarch's 12th Night, which will take place starting  around 11:00 am and ending around 11:00 pm January 2nd.
The event will once again be at St Anthony's church on the corner of Gladys and 23rd street in beautiful  Beaumont TX.

HE Santiago


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