[Bordermarch] 12th Night Weather Forecast

[Jillian Birtciel]

St. Andrew's...the first apostle, elder brother of Peter, the Rock.  Not
Anthony, patron saint of lost items, the poor and travelers.

~Jillian Saint Andre

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Charles Netterville <
ck_netterville at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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