I left home without my migraine meds.
D'oh.
I turned back to get them, of course.
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
'The Message'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2005 6:55:04 am PDT #9522 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 6:55:59 am PDT #9523 of 10002
From what I'm reading, the original cakes did contain pepper as well as honey, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and anise. They pretty much just dropped the pepper and a few other spices and replaced the honey with molasses.
amych - Oct 28, 2005 6:58:54 am PDT #9524 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
They pretty much just dropped the pepper and a few other spices and replaced the honey with molasses.
That's a shame -- pepper in spice-things is really, really good and should be done more.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2005 6:59:12 am PDT #9525 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I just placed a stock photo image that looks like the photographer traveled to Heaven to get the shot. Check out image FLW100
Ooooh, pretty.
TomW - Oct 28, 2005 7:01:23 am PDT #9526 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
My advice to today's cake makers is to think twice before dropping the pepper. I used to put a small amount of black pepper into my fruitcakes (including the few times I tried my hand at Black Bun) and it added a great spicy zing.
brenda m - Oct 28, 2005 7:04:20 am PDT #9527 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My old roommate used to make a strawberry and green peppercorn pie. You'd be amazed how good that was.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2005 7:05:38 am PDT #9528 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Mmm, fruitcake. Why a cake that is mostly liquor has such a poor reputation is tragic. My grandma would cook fruitcake on New Years and store it in a container (in the coset or the fridge, there is some dispute over this) soaking it in rum monthly and gifting them the following christmas. Maybe I will do that this year.
brenda m - Oct 28, 2005 7:06:17 am PDT #9529 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Because of those nasty cherries and stuff? Just a guess.
msbelle - Oct 28, 2005 7:07:27 am PDT #9530 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
dude, I loved my grandmother's fruitcake and it was alcohol free. Ain't nuthin wrong with a little candied fruit. should probably look for her recipe and make it myslef this year.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 7:09:54 am PDT #9531 of 10002
I never really got why fruitcakes was so reviled either. Maybe we just had people who made damned good fruitcakes giving them to us. It was quite the scandal that Cousin Birger always sent my grandparents fruitcake and they were teatotallers. They'd always pass it off to someone else, and once my parents were married, they were the recipients. Too bad Birger's dead now....