[Sca-cooks] Ideas for homemade holiday gifts - for cat owners

[Suey]

I  wrote:
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> For cat owners this is original:
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>> /www.5min.com/*Video*/Easy-to-make-homemade-*cat*-*toy*-7513/ 
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> and it costs you nothing if you have a cat.
> Suey
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Stefan says the website doesn't work.

/It doesn't. Go to google and search for homemade cat toy where it is the first sight that pops up on my screen titled "Homemade Cat Toys". S//everal other sites are provided after that with more ideas.
Suey
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> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:45:26 -0600
> From: Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] A question about dates and marzipan
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> Is there any textual evidence for almond- or marzipan-stuffed dates in period?  I've run across a modern reference to them as a "traditional Scottish treat" (for what that's worth), but it got me to wondering.
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> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:59:29 -0500
> From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcarrollmann at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] A question about dates and marzipan
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> In the Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook (13th c.), there is a recipe for
> a candy which can be shaped as the cook pleases.  I won't quote the
> whole recipe, because it isn't relevant, but the instructions contain
> this line: "While it is still warm, give it the shape of dates stuffed
> with almonds".
> I would assume that means that people did indeed stuff almonds into
> dates.  Don't know about marzipan.
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