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Skriven 2008-10-07 22:50:59 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: sauerkraut was: ratatouille
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-02-08 20:06 <=-

 RH> Hi Nancy,

Hi, Ruth.  :)  I think you should have really sent this to Carol (who
may not see it for quite awhile if she's far enough behind to not be
reading anything recent except for personal)... 

 RH> On (01 Oct 08) Nancy Backus wrote to Carol Shenkenberger...

 CS> did like!).  I remember her first time with a daikon and all we could
 CS> translate was 'sugar horseradish' and she wasnt amized at home mild it
 CS> was ;-)  She found many uses for it later though.  One was based on
 CS> something obscure she knew of, which was to roll slices in eggwash then
 CS> powdered sugar and fry it.  Strange but quite good.  Maybe GA Ruth can
 CS> think of what she was recreating sorta?  It was definately a fusion of
 CS> something she knew and it wasnt a potato treated like that.

 RH> The only thing I can think of is that it could be she just wanted some
 RH> sort of sweet vegetable dessert type thing. I've no recollection of
 RH> any thing like that in Germany; I'll look thru my German cook books
 RH> when I get back to GA in about 3 weeks.

So far, most general concensus has been that it might have been a way to
fix parsnips?

 RH> ... A truly wise person knows that he knows not.

So true...  :)

ttyl        neb

... Breakfast in Paris, lunch in Greece, luggage in Japan...

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