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 -=> Hap Newsom said to Dave Drum <=-

 -> At that it was nowhere nearly as bad a the bottle we opened at the first 
 -> Seattle picnic. That stuff was as brown as iodine and was poured on some 
 -> otherwise inoffensive plant life. Wooo Hooo. I don't think one could 
 -> have even made vinegar from it.
 HN> Gosh I'm trying to remember that bottle! At the last Seattle Picnic?

He's talking about the picnic just before 9/11, where United
was rich and happy and gave away miles like water, so I had
enough to upgrade Dirty Dave, and he got to sit right behind
me and Carol in first class (which isn't all that big of a
deal, unless you're a Person Of Size, which we're not, as the
food ain't what it used to be). I remember that evening - you
and I tasted several wines for an outdoor picnic at a park
with a fig tree - I think it was a place near the old toxic
waste site, where the family had deeded its homestead to the
city as a park or something; anyway, we had a bunch of people
eating sammiches and drinking wine, only we had grabbed one of
the reject bottles instead of the one we had intended to bring,
and it (a Washington state Cabernet, I think) ended up polluting
the little stream that went through the park. The highlights of
that evening were, not necessarily in this order, an Eiswein
that Aura brought, some liverwurst that you brought, and a walk
in the moonlight that Joell and Larry and Carol and I took by
the water after everyone else had left.

Edited to add: Salisham 1986, of which I wrote "well over the
hill. Originally a light wine, it didn't have enough body to
live this long, so what we found was a light brown liquid with
some particles floating in it, flavor of overripe fruit, and
not much tannin or acid or glycerin or anything." All the
membership's tastes were discriminating enough so that much of
the bottle was poured out as a gift to the local deities.

 -=> Hap Newsom said to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 HN> I think she'd understand more than you imagine. As a military brat of
 HN> the 50's  and 60's I always went to school with kids of all mixes,
 HN> always played with  kids of all sorts of heritages, a true hodge podge
 HN> of cultures. I always looked 
 HN> at everyone as my equal and didn't really understand what was going on
 HN> with  the civil rights movement till later when I found out everyone
 HN> else wasn't like 
 HN> me (in terms of believeing everyone is just as good as I am). My

Some of us were acutely aware of the differences; you are
pointing out one area in which the military has done good
stateside - as a leveler of levels it undoubtedly helped
the Civil Rights movement go forward.

 HN> family has  been in the USA since the early 1600's and some cherokee
 HN> blood got added in  the early 1700's (although that was a family
 HN> "secret" till the mid 1900's or so)
 HN> other than that I am Scotch, Irish, English, and French, and as common
 HN> as  dirt. Burroughs was fiction so I knew it was "pretend" so I guess
 HN> it didn't  bother me, certainly not as much as "To Kill a Mockingbird"
 HN> did in highschool!  

I went to a segregated high school ("for the use and benefit of the
White race only"), and we didn't read that book there. On the other
hand, I'd already read it.

Date cake - Kakat Al Tamr
cat: dessert
servings: 8

1/2 lb Medjool dates, pitted, chopped
7 Tb sweet butter + extra for the dish
1 c sugar
1 3/4 c flour
1 ts baking powder
1 ts baking soda
1 ts vanilla x
1 egg, lightly beateh
h - topping
3/4 c light brown sugar
6 Tb sweet butter
5 Tb heavy cream

Plump dates in 1 c boiling water for 10 min.

Oven at 375F.

Butter an 11x7" baking dish.

Cream butter and sugar.

Sift flour with baking powder. set aside.

Combine dates, their soaking liquid, baking
soda, and vanilla.

Using a mixer on medium, add the egg and 1/3 of
the flour to the butter-sugar mixture and beat
until incorporated. Gradually add the rest of the
flour and beat until mixed. Mix in the date mixture.

Bake in prepared dish for 30 min or until cake
tests done.

Using a fork, poke holes over top of cake.

Preheat broiler.

For the topping: combine all ingredients in saucepan
over medium heat; cook, stirring, for 3 min or until
it bubbles. Pour over cake.

Broil cake 30 sec or until surface bubbles. Let cake
cool slightly.

Cut cake into squares; serve warm or at room temperature.

Source: May Bsisu
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