[Sca-cooks] Mistress Huette

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 29 14:17:23 PDT 2011


Mind if I forward this to Hroar?  I think he would get a kick out of it.

Yours in service,
Selene

On 9/28/11 4:24 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:
> Since hearing the news about Huette's health crisis, I have spent some 
> time reading through various notes on and off list to each other over 
> the past decade.
>
> I came across this saved post and decided to share it once again with 
> this list.
>
>  Huette wrote and posted  the message below to the list back in March 
> 2004.
>
> In addition I also came across this wiki entry which I thought people 
> might like to see:
>
> http://wiki.caid-commons.org/index.php/Huette_Aliza_von_und_zu_Ährens_und_Mechthildberg 
>
>
> in fond remembrance
>
> Johnnae
>
> From:     Huette von Ahrens
> Subject:     Re: [Sca-cooks] Me, was Eskimo ice cream
> Date:     March 29, 2004 4:15:12 AM EST
>
> My favorite color is purple/lavender/lilac.  My
> yard is filled with hundreds of iris and roses.
> I have a 30 year old apricot tree that
> consistantly over produces.  And a pecan tree
> that used to over produce until the squirrels
> discovered it.  I have a pet tortoise named
> Freddie, whom I have had since she was 1 month
> old, but since tortoises don't show their sex
> until they are between 10 and 12 years old, we
> got very used to calling her "him".  Sigh. She is
> now 17 and can live to be 60.  I never drink
> coffee and only drink tea in the iced form.  [I
> know ... blasphemous].  My favorite beverage is
> root beer, preferably a craft brewed one or, if I
> have to have a commercial one, either IBC or
> Barq's.  However, I am looking for a British soda
> called "Claret and lemon", but I can't recall the
> manufacturer.  My favorite fruit flavoring is
> lime.  When I was last in Oz, they had a
> Schweppes Bitter Lime that was to die for, but I
> have never been able to find it here.  If
> ordering a mixed drink, it would be either a
> vodka gimlet or a saltless margarita.  My
> favorite wines are German moselles.  I eat way
> too much chocolate and prefer the
> dark/semi-sweet/bitter versions.  And Selene's
> chocolate mousse is to die for.  My favorite
> cookie is Pims, of which I agree with Lainie that
> orange is the One True Flavor, although the pear
> is very yummy.  I think that the Ozzie Tim-Tams
> are not worth the hype.  The four different kinds
> I have eaten were bland and tasteless.  [I know
> ... blasphemous].  I have been looking for a
> sandwich cookie from my college years called
> Ginger Peachies, which I only found in vending
> machines.  They were a ginger snap with a peach
> flavored cream filling.  My favorite candy is
> Applets and Cotlets and all the other flavors
> they make.  I adore mushrooms and avocados.  My
> favorite cheese is Swiss/Ermantaler.  My favorite
> meat is lamb, followed by duck, followed by prime
> rib.  I have never met a cuisine that I didn't
> like, but with my capsicum pepper allergy, there
> are more and more that I can no longer eat.  I
> adore sushi.  My favorite actor is Basil
> Rathbone, followed closely by Alan Rickman,
> Rufus Sewell, and Johnny Depp.  My favorite
> comedy group is the Goon Show, followed closely
> by Monty Python.  My favorite movie is a tie
> between "The 3 & 4 Musketeers" and "The Court
> Jester", followed by "The Apple War" and "Start
> the Revolution Without Me."  My favorite play is
> "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue, and anything by
> Feydeau, Shakespeare and Goldwyn of Britain.  My
> favorite TV shows are "WKRP in Cincinnati", "Dark
> Shadows" and Jeopardy.  I collect hand-wrought
> aluminum ware from the '40s and '50s, art glass
> paperweights, etchings and cheap touristy wooden
> Viking dolls.  I cook, sew,
> emboider/needlepoint/do bargello, dance,
> calligraph, play period board games, and ride
> herd on half a dozen very talented apprentices.
>
> Is that enough?  Or shall I go on?
>
> Huette
>
>
>
> --- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:
>> Silly! Not like that! Stuff like Lainie liking
>> the color orange, and my
>> fondness for kitty-cats, and whether you eat
>> chocolate, and do you
>> prefer coffee or tea.  Silly personal stuff.
>> Sometimes personal bits come across on the list
>> and sometimes they
>> don't, ya know? As "loud" as I am, sometimes, I
>> bet most folk don't know
>> (or care) about similar, minor details of my
>> life.
>> --maire
>
>
> =====
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> shall never cease to be amused.
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