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Ärende: Re: Picnic stuff
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On 05-15-07 DALE SHIPP Scribbled to DAVE DRUM about Re: Picnic stuff

DS> DD> I don't suppose anyone runs to an AYCE crab bar or anything? No.
DS> DD> I  didn't think so.

DS>  Actually, it is common.   Many places offer you a choice of buying
DS>  crab by the piece or buying an all you can eat.   At one place we
DS>  visited (Kaufman's) the AYCE was $28.   Or you could buy crabs at a
DS>  price of $35 to $80 per dozen depending on the size you ordered.
DS>  The $35 were called "medium".   The $80 were called "monsters".

Oh. OK. I find that as I get older I cannot pig out as much as I used to 
at AYCE places. If I force things -- I still cannot match my former 
capacity and I always and forever suffer for trying. I am, at long last, 
beginning to see the sense of the reduced portion "senior citizen" 
plates that some restaurants serve. They made no sense to me at all when 
I was 55 and first eligible for the "discount". 

DS>  When you order the AYCE, the crabs you get served are "at most
DS>  medium", and may also be culls (e.g. missing claw).   The smaller
DS>  the crab, the less meat and the harder to pick it out.  I really
DS>  don't know how many crabs the average person might eat -- on the
DS>  few occasions I have done it I tended to go with something like six
DS>  large or jumbo, which is still at a price about the same as AYCE --
DS>  but enough for me.

DS>  We've seen about the same AYCE prices at some other places we have
DS>  researched also.

Even given what I have written above - I could do some serious damage to 
some crabs.   Bv)=

DS>  Of course, there are some who say that eating crabs is a negative
DS>  calorie experience -- i.e. it takes more work to do it than you get
DS>  out of them:-}}

Sort of like celery - which an RD once recommended to me as the "perfect 
snack" as a rib of celery holds 10 to 12 calories. The acts of chewing, 
swallowing and digesting that rib of celery consume 15 - 18 calories. 
So, you _could_ eat yourself thin ... if you could stand that much 
celery. And there is a side benefit - all that roughage will make one a 
regular fellow.  Bv)=

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Butterscotch Pie
 Categories: Desserts, Pies
      Yield: 6 servings
 
      1 c  Brown sugar, firmly packed
    1/2 c  All-purpose flour
    1/4 ts Salt
      2 c  Whole milk
      3    Egg yolks; well beaten
    1/4 c  Butter (1/2 stick)
      1 ts Vanilla extract
      1    Baked 9-inch pastry shell,
           -cooled

MMMMM----------------------PERFECT MERINGUE---------------------------
      3    Egg whites from jumbo eggs;
           -room temp
      6 tb Sugar; depending on your
           -taste
    1/2 ts Vanilla extract
    1/4 ts Cream of tartar
 
  Beat the egg whites at high speed with an electric mixer
  until soft peaks form. With mixer running, add the cream
  of tartar, then gradually add the sugar, a tablespoon at
  a time, and beat until stiff peaks form. Beat in the
  vanilla.
  
  Preheat oven to 350°F.
  
  Combine brown sugar, flour and salt in heavy saucepan.
  Gradually, stir in the milk, and cook over low heat until
  mixture begins to thicken. Stir occasionally.
  
  Slowly stir half the hot mixture into the well-beaten egg
  yolks; then, beat the egg mixture back into the remaining
  hot mixture. Cook for an additional two minutes.
  
  Add butter and vanilla, and mix well. Pour into pie shell
  Pile meringue atop pie and seal edges to crust. Bake at
  350°F for 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.
  
  Note: To minimize "weeping", spread the meringue on the pie
  filling while the filling is hot. Also, meringue pies cut
  better with a wet knife blade
  
  FROM: Texas Cooking Online
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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