I meant immunity to that particular variant and its like.
That is the incredibly bitchy thing about influenza: there is no such thing as "and its like". A year after a given strain hits your immune system, its surviving descendants are very likely to be completely unrecognizable as far as your antibodies are concerned.
As far as I understand the newspaper stories, that's why (some) people are unhappy that they've completely sequenced the genetic code of the 1918 influenza strain: if you released it into the wild today, it would sweep through killing just as many people. Nobody's ever been exposed to it, nobody's immune. (I suppose there are still a few survivors of the 1918 strain, but precious few.)
A really excellent book on the 1918 influenza is "The Great Mortality" by John Kelly. It explains why influenza is such a versatile and fast-moving bug.
That is the incredibly bitchy thing about influenza: there is no such thing as "and its like".
Yeah, I understand that (hence my not worry about not having the flu vac.) (Well, there is a chance of close enough variant, that it works, but...) I was thinking biowarfare and frozen samples and whatnot. Hey, I've watched Frontline! I'm suitably assured that if I'm doomed, I'm doomed!
1/2 cup dried apricots, thinly sliced
1/4 cup apricot brandy (or any brandy, or orange juice if you don't want the alchohol)
3/4 cup water
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup honey
1 bag fresh cranberries
Combine apricots and brandy in a small bowl, cover and let macerate overnight.
Combine water and sugar, bring to a low boil. Add everything else, cook 8 minutes, or until saucy.
How do people feel about cranberry relish? I always make it by grinding cranberries coarsely with oranges, peels and all and just enough sugar to take the edge off.
We totally do it like that in my family, in the old school meat grinder that clamps to the table. LOVE IT.
That's how we do it. I don't actually like it (I don't like orange with cranberry) but I love making it.
I think you mean The Great Influenza. The Great Mortality was about the Black Death.
A really excellent book on the 1918 influenza is "The Great Mortality" by John Kelly. It explains why influenza is such a versatile and fast-moving bug.
Isn't that about the Black Plague?
Just tonight I went out and had a "turkey dinner" from one of the gajillion restaurants in my neighborhood that tries to do American classics with "a twist"-- it had weird tasting cranberry relish. When I got to the bottom I realized why. Black licorice! WTF?
See, I can't see adding any more flavor to relish. But I suppose cooking a wee bit mellows it. But...NO. I like it fresh and painfully tart.
But I suppose the recipe is delish, regardless.
Just not mine!
