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Skriven 2007-11-02 16:14:07 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 22130 av Joan Macdiarmid (1:18/200)
Ärende: synthetic cheese 1
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Hi Joan,

 RH> buying some of our bread from a local bakery.  After I broke my wrists,
 RH> we went to store bread for a few years until Steve got our first bread
 RH> machine.  I pulled a nice looking loaf out of machine #3 a couple of

 JM>  Nothing smells better than fresh-baked bread!
 JM>  Another reason I should not get a breadmaker, as I
 JM>  might be tempted to scarf down a hot loaf if it was
 JM>  too easily obtained. When they were first being
 JM>  introduced to the market, a friend of Mom's brought
 JM>  her new Christmas toy along to a New Years sleepover
 JM>  at a fishing cabin (the single friend and her
 JM>  Doberman, my parents and me, and the couple that
 JM>  owned the cabin and their Labradors and border
 JM>  collie) and made several different loaves of breads
 JM>  which we stuffed ourselves with. Fun but fattening!

You would eat like that for a few days, even a week or so but then get
so used to it that you would fall back on your normal bread eating
patterns.  My mom rarely made bread; when she did, we'd scarf it down in
a couple of meals.  When asked why she didn't make it more often, she
said it wasn't worth it because of the way we went thru it when she did.
I told her that we'd get used to having the home made as the norm; Steve
and I adjusted quickly.



 JM>  Huntsville, AL is a nice town and developing nicely.

 RH> He had some interesting meals but pretty much ones that are available
 RH> in any good sized place.

 JM>  Exactly. Actually, it's probably a pretty good city
 JM>  for variety as it's full of people from all over the
 JM>  country and the world, because of the space research
 JM>  and Redstone Arsenal. But no specialties of the
 JM>  area I ever knew of.

Well, you know that Steve is a techno geek.  I'd have fun poking around
some of the space museums too. (G)

 JM>  has a Space Museum is that the von Braun team was
 JM>  sent there, after WWII, to do missile research for
 JM>  the USA. They were sort of spoils of war, and I

 RH> I think they would have rather been there than in the Soviet Union
 RH> which was the alternative.

 JM>  Darn right!

So, Huntsville became home (after a stay in El Paso).

 JM>  Materials Research. I got to participate in a
 JM>  niggling way to the Spacelab Project! Huntsville

 RH> Your 15 minutes of fame?

 JM>  No fame, but satisfaction in having made up the
 JM>  buffers used in an experiment on electrophoresis
 JM>  in zero gee, and later helping to nursemaid the
 JM>  experiment frozen in liquid N2 until the
 JM>  experimenters were ready to analyze it. I got
 JM>  paid overtime to stay up all night and weigh
 JM>  the package hourly so someone could be called if
 JM>  too much of the nitrogen boiled off.

Was that what sparked your interest in research science for a career?

 JM>  my family befriended a few of the German families
 JM>  of the rocket scientists.

 RH> Did your mom learn how to cook some of their favorite foods?  As we
 RH> were eating supper Friday night, we realised that Steve had probably
 RH> never had sauerbraten until we got married--and he's half German.

 JM>  No but an Elfrieda invited us over for a Christmas
 JM>  season luncheon once, and I discovered German Potato
 JM>  Salad! I was inspired to go looking for recipes so I
 JM>  could make that and finally got one that suits me

It is good. (G)  Generally I'll use the recipe in my Betty Crocker cook
book; in Germany I had some that tasted just like that, others that were
nowhere near the same taste (but still good).

 JM>  very well. I wasn't so inspired by the wursts, and the

Just have to find the best of the wurst.


 JM>  pastries are not bad but too rich and less sweet
 JM>  than I was used to.

That was a surprise but there were enough "fat bombs" that we could find
something to our taste. I like the German style cheesecake; it's denser
and less sweet than an American one.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... Always butter up the SYSOP, they taste better that way.

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