[Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

Unfortunately, I was on the phone once while making medieval gingerbrede,
and reached for a similar-looking powder, only to realize that I was
sprinkling granulated garlic into the mix instead of powdered ginger.  Of
course I did not serve it, but will never live down the garlic gingerbrede
my friends on the other end of the phone heard about as it was in the
making.
Christianna

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Behalf Of Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:29 AM
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Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet


Also sprach ekoogler1 at comcast.net:
>And to add another anecdote...When Phillip and I were first dating,
>he came to my apartment for a weekend.  It was cold and rainy, so we
>decided to make some beef stew.  Well, we got it to the point where
>we wanted to thicken it, so we added cornstarch.  But, oddly enough,
>it didn't get any thicker.  Then he tasted it.  What we were adding
>was confectioners' sugar!  Boy, that was the sweetest beef stew
>around.  A couple of weekends later, we were at his apartment and he
>decided to make funnel cakes.  He got them all fried up and ready to
>eat.  We sprinkled Confectioners' sugar on them and bit in.  Ugh.
>It turned out to be cornstarch.  So we both learned to label
>stuff....
>
>Kiri

Ah, yes. Like the brownies I made with my wife's Cantonese
deep-frying batter mix. Great brownies, with just a hint of ginger
and garlic...

Adamantius
--




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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