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Skriven 2006-09-10 22:27:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: picnic day 217
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 RH> Kummel, one hopes.  I doubt I'd waste caraway liqueur on overcooked
 RH> veggies!

If you could find the stuff.

 -> My little brother has half a drink, and he's a goner. He tells
 -> me that anyone who's not impaired by what I drink (I think he's
 -> seen me quaff up to - gasp - three) is an alcoholic.
 RH> He's even worse off than me then.   Your little brother sounds like a
 RH> product of D.A.R.E. or something.

Probably. He's also quite a literalist. When the Catholic Church
says something, he tends to believe it ... but he goes back through
the Councils and Convocations through the centuries to see if the
doctrine being promulgated is somehow heretical. And he believes
the narrowest, most anti-commonsense, anti-freedom interpretation.
And that goes for everything. Pain in the butt, he is.

 ->  -> I don't see how anyone could cheat people in the short run
 ->  -> and ignore the possibility for long-term relationships. But
 ->  RH> A lot don't worry about it.
 -> That's SOOO dumb and SOOO nasty.
 RH> There are always more dumb fish in the sea.

We have a bit of (not a great) responsibility for the
helpless. 

  The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can
  they talk? but, Can they suffer?
  -- Jeremy Bentham

Of course, if they're malignantly clueless and don't take cues,
all bets are off.

 RH> Baskin Robbins, when we had them around, made a good Daquari Ice
 RH> frozen sherbet thing too.  The chain wasn't much of a loss, except for
 RH> that.

I believe it still exists some places. As the ice cream was
nowhere so good as that of the local creameries in New England
(or the fancy parlors, either), there's no reason why it should
survive there.

There is one flavor of theirs that I just loved, though -
Mandarin chocolate sherbet. Jamoca almond fudge wasn't
bad, either.

Last-minute chocolate cake
cat: dessert, celebrity
servings: 6 to 8

1 c flour
1/2 ts soda
1/4 ts salt
4 oz unsweetened chocolate
6 Tb sweet butter
3/4 c strong black coffee
2 Tb orange liqueur
3/4 c sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 ts vanilla

Oven at 300F. Butter and flour a 9x5" loaf pan.

Combine flour, soda, and salt. Set aside.

Combine chocolate, butter, and coffee. Stir over
lowest heat until nearly melted. Off heat, keep
stirring until melting is complete. Let cool 15 min.
Add liqueur, sugar, egg, and vanilla and mix well.

Add dry ingredients. Pour batter into prepared pan
and bake 30-40 min or until cake tests done. Cool
on a wire rack. Serve warm or at room temp, each
slice topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires

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