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Skriven 2007-08-19 15:06:14 av Carol Shenkenberger (3:800/201)
  Kommentar till text 19434 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: PICNIC TRIP 697
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

RH> turbinado or raw sugar and it's not quite as sweet as the white, refin
RH> sugar--still a hint of a molasses taste to it.  If the peaches are
RH> sweet, it may seem like the cobbler has more sugar than it actually
RH> does.

 CS> Ok, I'd want to cut the sugar down more for our use but it should
 CS> work.  BTW, among my freezer fodder is a frozen apple pie.

RH> Cut the sugar in half if the fruit is sweet.  Any more than that and t
RH> structure of the "cake" part won't work as well.

Ok.  Will keep that in mind.  You know we are almost 'diabetic cookery' here
except for the starch part, so 'too sweet' for us is like folks who say
campbells soup is too salty.  We have a smaller tolerance for the sweet taste.

The fruit alone would provide all the 'sweet' we really want but a little brown
sugar is acceptable.  The cookery to work right though needing more sugar,
might make me adapt that one. Can it be cut down to a 2 cup total yield? 
Otherwise, we'd not eat more and just waste the food as it went bad in the
fridge.  (We do like a little sweets, but not the volume others commonly
like).

RH> Enjoy your apple pie--do you still have ice cream to go on the top? (G

We get ice cream now and again in smaller containers. Pints work for a 2 week
time here with 3 of us <g>.  I have 1 of them but it's strawberry.  Thats ok. 
We won't eat the whole apple pie anyways. Most (probably all but 3 small
slices) will go to neighbors.

(Elise here.  I got what Carol calls 'dibs'. My boys love apple cinnimon pie. I
got her amish bread recipe too.  It's good.  She has to cross cut it to fit
the bread keeper as it is too tall).

-- slight break obviously.  That was Elise.  She says hello.  Got dibs on the
rest of the apple pie <g>.  Meekans are hitting heavy so she grabed Charlotte
with her to go get some.  Seems the boys all 'flocked away' someplace and she
wants someone to help carry a goodlie load back.  She filtered the last of her
stash out of my chest freezer (we mark stuff so we dont eat up each others
freezer fodder, meat being expensive here and extra freezers being rare).  She
dropped off 4 small chicken carcasses and picked up some chicken stock.  She;s
fast so it's all in the momma crock with water making more stock now.

I asked her to get us some peeled garlic and whatever looks good for a cabbage
then handed off 300yen to Charlotte (plus 700 yen for just 'fun' and water).

They'll be back in about 1 hour or a little more.  Meantime, I get the TV all
to me and the computer!

Hehe Mommie is devious.

RH> me less comfortable on a hot, humid day.

 CS> Yes, and it is getting quite hot now out here.  Web search shows the
 CS> weather station on the other side of the mountain so it's always at
 CS> least 10 degrees cooler than this side.

RH> But, you know the end is in sight.  We're still adjusting to 4 distinc
RH> seasons vs the sort of slide into each other like we had in AZ and HI.
RH> AZ did have a hot summer and (short) cold winter but the differences
RH> seem more distinct out here.

I got used to 4 distinct seasons out here though 'winter' seldom has real snow.
Sasebo is just south enough, we get some but almost never sticks. If it were
not for the air current that sweeps us over from Siberia, we probably wouldnt
have even that (it warms alot before it hits us but is still cold).
                                       xxcarol

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