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

[Micheal]

 Oh yummy garlic ginger bread , wonder if it would  go good with cayenne 
borsch.
 Da
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From: <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+kingstaste=mindspring.com at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+kingstaste=mindspring.com at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:29 AM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> 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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> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la
> 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
>
> "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
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