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Skriven 2015-03-06 09:45:04 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Jim Weller
Ärende: Re: morels
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-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 JW> we are in for a bumper year for morels
 JW> retail prices are $40 per pound

 DD> I've never seen what all the hoo-hah is about. Perhaps my
 DD> palate is too coarse or something.

 JW> They are quite tasty and worth a bit of a premium but I could never
 JW> bear to bring myself to ever pay more than a dollar an ounce for any
 JW> kind of mushroom. But I can find a Sunday to go for a drive to a
 JW> burn out.

I can't argue on the tasty. But, $40/lb. Really?
 
 JW> I vividly remember the last really good harvests. We took Neekha
 JW> with us in a backpack baby carrier. She was 8 months old. She got
 JW> bit on the top of her head by a horse fly and instead of crying she
 JW> made two fists and tried to hit it while it buzzed around her.

 JW> The next year when she was 20 months old we went out with her again.
 JW> She was walking on her own by then of course. I showed her a morel
 JW> and a false morel (there were lots of them too) and told her only to
 JW> pick the good ones. When she spotted a false morel she shouted "toad
 JW> stool" and jumped on it to crush it! I checked her little basket out
 JW> later and her picks were all perfect. I was impressed.

Never met Ms Neekha in person - but from following her reported exploits she is
quite a renaissance teen. Isn't she about husband high these days? Or have I
credited her with physical age that her mental age indicates? Hang in there
great-grandpa.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Grandperes (Grandfathers)
 Categories: Desserts, Snacks, Dairy
      Yield: 6 servings

      2 c  Pure maple syrup
      2 c  Water
      2 c  Sifted flour
      4 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Salt
      2 tb Butter
      1 c  Milk

  Combine maple syrup and water in a wide saucepan with
  tight-fitting lid. Bring to the boiling point.

  Sift and measure flour, sift again with baking powder and
  salt and cut in shortening. Add milk all at once, mix
  rapidly and drop by Tablespoonfuls into the boiling syrup.

  Cover pan and cook over slightly lowered heat for about 15
  minutes. Serve at once.

  Makes 6 servings.

  From Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery

  Recipe from: http://www.recipelink.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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