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    Of Viands and Victuals

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    5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    Found on FB

     

    Kentucky Blackberry Dumpling
    Ingredients
    For the Dumplings:
    2 cups King Arthur bread flour
    1 tablespoon baking powder
    Dash of sea salt
    1 cup sweet milk or water
    For the Berry Mixture:
    4 cups blackberries (frozen or fresh)
    Water (enough to cover the berries)
    About 3 cups of cane sugar (adjusted to taste)
    Instructions
    Prepare the Dumplings:
    In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and a dash of sea salt.
    Slowly add the milk or water, stirring until a dough forms.
    Knead the dough gently, then roll it out flat and thin. Use a knife, pizza cutter, or whatever tool you prefer to slice the dough into strips or squares. These dumplings should be thin and slick, rather than thick or fluffy, so aim for a good, even thickness that holds together well.
    Cook the Berries:
    Place your blackberries in a large pot and add just enough water to cover them.
    Traditional Southern Blackberry Dumplings Recipe

    Bring the water and berries to a rolling boil, then reduce to a medium boil.
    Add cane sugar to the boiling berry mixture. Start with a couple of cups, then taste the mixture as it cooks. As the water turns purple from the berries, continue adjusting the sweetness to taste. For a more traditional, sweet Southern flavor, you might want around 3 cups of sugar, but feel free to adjust based on your preference and the tartness of your berries.
    Add the Dumplings:
    Once the berry mixture is sweetened to your liking and at a medium boil, begin dropping in the dumpling pieces. Be careful not to overcrowd the pot, as the dumplings need space to cook evenly.
    Let the dumplings cook for about 20 minutes, or until they reach your desired consistency. They should be chewy and slick, with a texture that’s thinner than the fluffy dumplings often found in other dishes.
    Serve:
    Serve the dumplings warm in a bowl with plenty of the sweet berry sauce. This dish can be enjoyed as is or with a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream if you’re feeling indulgent.
    Tips for Perfect Blackberry Dumplings
    Use Frozen or Fresh Berries: Freshly picked or frozen berries both work well, though frozen berries may add a hint of tartness, which you can balance with a little extra sugar.
    Sweeten to Your Taste: Traditional Southern recipes often call for a generous amount of sugar, so feel free to adjust the sweetness to fit your preference or your family’s tastes.
    Achieve the Right Dumpling Texture: This isn’t your typical fluffy dumpling recipe—these dumplings should be thin, chewy, and slick. If you prefer a different texture, you can try experimenting with the thickness of the dough, but for authenticity, aim for a thinner roll-out.

     

    Like an Inside-Out Cobbler!  ^_^  :lol:

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    54 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    Dedicated To All Who Flew Behind Round Engines

    We gotta get rid of those turbines, they’re ruining aviation and our hearing…

     

    A turbine is too simple-minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn’t pick up any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat.

     

    Anybody can start a turbine. You just need to move a switch from “OFF” to “START” and then remember to move it back to “ON” after a while. My PC is harder to start.

     

    Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse, and style. You have to seduce it into starting. It’s like waking up a horny mistress. On some planes, the pilots aren’t even allowed to do it…

     

    Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a little louder.

     

    Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot more smoke, and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It’s a GUY thing…

     

    When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead.

    Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but, hardly exciting.

     

    When you have started his round engine successfully your crew chief looks up at you like he’d let you kiss his girl too!

     

    Turbines don’t break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, complacency, and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it’s going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind! Turbines don’t have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot’s attention. There’s nothing to fiddle with during long flights.

     

    Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps. Round engines smell like God intended machines to smell.

     

    Pass this on to an old WWII pilot (or his son who flew them in Vietnam) in remembrance of that “Greatest Generation.”

     

     

    I'll be sharing this with an acquaintance tomorrow - a former Navy pilot.  He flew C-1 Traders and S-2 Trackers, and even radial-engined crop dusters.  He's likely seen it before, but whether he has or not, it'll bring a grin.  :D

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    Posted

    8 hours ago, Alpo said:

    There's a couple of reasons for that.

     

    First - the store is(STORIES) on that list are all adult sci-fi. Starship Troopers is a juvenile. He wrote a dozen books under contract, one a year, for this publishing house "young adult"line.

     

     

        Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
        Space Cadet (1948)
        Red Planet (1949)
        Farmer in the Sky (1950)
        Between Planets (1951)
        The Rolling Stones (1952)
        Starman Jones (1953)
        The Star Beast (1954)
        Tunnel in the Sky (1955)
        Time for the Stars (1956)
        Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
        Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)
        Starship Troopers (1959)

     

    The second reason is chronological. The list was published in 1941. Starship Troopers was written in 1959. The number of the beast was written in 1980.

     

    Hard to put something on a list when it won't be written for a decade or more.

     

    I have a just-turned-thirteen year old grand-niece who recently discovered Heinlein.  And I've collected a bunch of the titles on that list from local used book stores, prob'ly out in the mail in a day or two.

     

     

     

    Still looking for "Podkayne" and "Space Suit."  🙂

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    11 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    Don't know. Didn't look it up.

     

    But FIREARMS has got eight letters in it and the first word in the Braille phrase only has seven. FIREARMS has two Rs, yet there is no letter duplicated in the first Braille word. There is an A in both FIREARMS and RANGE, but the letter shown in the Braille is not the same in both words.

     

    I don't know what it says, but I do know it is not say FIREARMS RANGE.

     

    Picky, picky....  🤪

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    Posted · Edited by Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

    I have an occasional visitor whose long-time stance is that it's just as easy for a woman to put the seat down as it is for a man to lift it up.  Not to mention the lid.

     

    Well... sometimes the cat likes to bounce off the lid to the top of the tank and look out the window.  Someone - this same visitor? - left the seat and lid up once.  Poor cat came bounding through and *ker-SPLASH!* 

     

    Poor cat was mortified.  Poor me was also mortified; I got to do the cleanup.

     

    I very clearly impressed upon my visitor the house rule, "Seat and Lid DOWN!"  

     

               Cat Fallen In The Toilet    

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