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Skriven 2010-02-06 18:03:57 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 34322 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: caffeine  was: Horseradish
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-=> Quoting RUTH HANSCHKA to NANCY BACKUS on 03 Feb 10  16:15:30 <=-

 ->  -> since neither aspirin nor acetaminophen nor the other NSAIDS etc do
 ->  -> anything for pain for me...  But apparently the caffeine does do
 ->  -> something... 
 ->  RH> I'm an Ibu ranger myself.  
 -> That stuff doesn't do anything for me either... mostly my body manages
 -> to push threshholds up way too high all on its own...  to touch pain I
 -> need a narcotic... and I mostly leave them alone anyway...
 ->
 RH> Oddly enough, I tend to be immune to the narcotic ones, except for the
 RH> side effects.  It doesn't seem to be an MS side effect, according to
 RH> the doctors, but I'm not sure what else it could be.  
 
It may just be the way your body reacts, MS or no MS...  The biggest
misconception about medications is that one type fits all...!

 ->  -> it doesn't change things too drastically, but I'll use real sugar or
 ->  -> honey or molasses, etc... :)
 ->  RH> I can't cut it in cookie recipes; it ruins the cookies.  You can do
 ->  RH> it with fruit pies, but not cakes as far as I can tell
 -> Haven't done much baking other than the occasional batch of bread for
 -> quite some years now... but that's about what I remember...  For
 -> cookies, I may substitute a different sort of real sweetener (brown for
 -> white, or molasses or honey for either), but not really scant them. 
 -> Haven't done cakes from scratch anyway...  And breads don't seem to mind
 -> a little less usually, as long as there's enough for the yeast to feed
 -> on.  I usually scant the salt for them, too... ;)

 RH> For bread, you don't need much sugar beyond a teaspoon or two; yeast
 RH> likes a little sugar and ignores the fake stuff.  I usually cut the
 RH> salt in bread in half, especially rye.  Those are generally oversalted
 RH> to begin with 

Quite true on the sugar/yeast...  :)  I agree on the salt, too... but
there are times that others think my bread isn't salty enough... ;0  As
long as the bread has enough taste on its own, though, the salt really
isn't missed.

ttyl      neb

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