[Sca-cooks] cook things in the news-servers. .

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these were found in a news-server I watch.
1. Others finally recognising the "value" of period cooking styles...
2. Experimenting with fancy additions.
3. When accent and spelling rules don't exist, what a scribe to do...
Ru

TODAY'S SIGN THE WORLD IS ENDING
    In this day and age of health-conscious cooks, a Beavercreek, Ohio, woman says the secret to baking award-winning pie crusts is old-fashioned lard.
    As a matter of fact, Mary Smith recently judged a contest in south-western Ohio at which lard was king. It was called the "Bake it with Lard" competition.
    According to published reports, Smith says that the reason lard is preferred by many is that "it gets down to texture and flavour."
    The participants used family recipes, passed down to them from previous generations when lard was the ingredient of choice.


CHINESE AIRLINE HOLDS MOON CAKE FEST
    China Southern -- a major China-based airline with code-sharing connections with a variety of American carriers -- says it's sponsored its first moon cake festival, during a company picnic in Guangzhou.
    The airline, in its latest newsletter, says that more than 160 guests were in attendance from various parts of the sprawling country, all taste-testing moon cakes, a popular delicacy in Canton Province.
    Some of the ingredients found in the cakes included: White lotus seed paste; pear paste; five mixed seeds and bean paste. A few new entries were included, one made from coconut paste.


    REGIONAL ACCENTS CAUSE CONFUSION
    It isn't just countries such as China and Spain that have confusing regional accents. Even here in the states people can be confused over the simplest of words. Recently a quality control inspector for a national fast food chain specialising in chicken told United Press International that three times he has seen the word "meal" throw a wrench into the ordering process.
    It seems that in some parts of the West and Midwest, "meal" is pronounced "mill."
    The inspector says in each of three cases an elderly person, accustomed to the "long E" pronunciation didn't realise what a "value mill" was. The inspector, fluent in both pronunciations, had to step in to clear the confusion.
    It seems that people who have accents can't hear their own.


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