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Post by Chuckie on Dec 21, 2017 23:43:32 GMT -5
I THOUGHT I'd posted this out here MANY MOONS ago, but--alas!!--guess I hadn't!! Here it is though. I doubled the spices per the suggestion from the original link--and said changes are reflected below--as that's the way WE like it! Hope you enjoy!! allrecipes.com/recipe/7322/favorite-old-fashioned-gingerbread/OLD FASHIONED GINGERBREADIngredients:
1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup butter 1 egg 1 cup molasses 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup hot water Directions:1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan (we used a bread pan, and cooked just shy of an hour, BUT check @ 45 mins.)2. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg (we used a duck egg), and mix in the molasses. 3. In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the creamed mixture. Stir in the hot water. Pour into the prepared pan. 4. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan before serving. We cooled in pan approx. 20 minutes, then turned out onto rack w/no sticking problemos!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by Chuckie on Dec 23, 2020 12:50:01 GMT -5
I THOUGHT I'd posted this out here MANY MOONS ago, but--alas!!--guess I hadn't!! Here it is though. I doubled the spices per the suggestion from the original link--and said changes are reflected below--as that's the way WE like it! Hope you enjoy!! allrecipes.com/recipe/7322/favorite-old-fashioned-gingerbread/OLD FASHIONED GINGERBREADIngredients:
1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup butter 1 egg 1 cup molasses 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup hot water Directions:1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan (we used a bread pan, and cooked just shy of an hour, BUT check @ 45 mins.)2. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg (we used a duck egg), and mix in the molasses. 3. In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the creamed mixture. Stir in the hot water. Pour into the prepared pan. 4. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan before serving. We cooled in pan approx. 20 minutes, then turned out onto rack w/no sticking problemos!! CHEERS! Chuckie Home for the day--prolly the WEEK!!--so made this today, house SMELLS of Christmas now!!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Dec 23, 2020 16:37:21 GMT -5
Merry Christmas, and tell 2020 not to let the door hit it in the ass on the way out!!
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Post by Chuckie on Dec 23, 2020 17:07:49 GMT -5
Merry Christmas, and tell 2020 not to let the door hit it in the ass on the way out!! Well said nana!! Or in the words of the Irish:
This was the t-shirt they sold for the ( cancelled!) KC Irish Fest. It was THEE best t-shirt year they ever had!!! Everybody loved it, had to have it, and they SOLD OUT!!! Monkey & I are going to wear ours New Years Eve-- NOT that we're going anywhere mind you!! And for those unfamiliar, "feck off" to the Irish means about the same as our "buzz off" or "pi$$ off"--a very mild expletive made popular on the Father Ted sitcom. At any rate, ti's fitting to be sure!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by karitx on Dec 23, 2020 17:19:49 GMT -5
That shirt is awesome! Although I am ready to go well beyond a mild expletive at this point.
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Post by nana on Dec 23, 2020 17:44:23 GMT -5
It just can’t end soon enough!
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Post by pooka on Dec 23, 2020 18:04:35 GMT -5
Now that's a slogan I can get behind. I've heard it said, the Irish invented swearing, although the Scottish might have something to say about that. Or maybe it was the other way around. I've also heard Germans have all the best curse words. Another anecdote is that a Norwegian wedding isn't considered a good one unless at least one person gets killed, so maybe they might have a dog in this fight too. In any event, this is one year I think we'd all like to forget, but we wont be able to. In future history books when you get to this years, it should simply say, "You Don't Want To Know. "You Wouldn't Believe It If I Told You."
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Post by nana on Dec 24, 2020 9:38:56 GMT -5
Something my dad used to yell at us in Russian when we were particularly on his last nerve roughly translates to “come here and I’ll show you where the lobsters hide in winter.” We figured it had something to do with receiving a good pinch, and stayed far away from him. Which was probably the intended effect!!
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Post by mach12 on Dec 24, 2020 20:50:17 GMT -5
Something my dad used to yell at us in Russian when we were particularly on his last nerve roughly translates to “come here and I’ll show you where the lobsters hide in winter.” We figured it had something to do with receiving a good pinch, and stayed far away from him. Which was probably the intended effect!! Wow - I never heard anyone say that except my grandfather on my mom's side. He immigrated from Bodo, Norway during WWI and I figured it was a Norwegian thing. I asked my mother what it meant and she said that lobsters hibernate, so it meant the same as getting your lights put out. I have no idea whether that was correct and never pushed it to find out lol.
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Post by pooka on Dec 25, 2020 1:24:21 GMT -5
I had to look this one up. I found the answer here.
Где раки зимуют [gde raki zimuyut]
This idiom is translated as ‘where crawfish hibernates’ and is usually used in the following context: “I will show you where crawfish hibernates”. What a Russian person means by saying this is that they want to punish you cruelly for something or teach you a lesson. Originally, Russian landlords considered shellfish to be a delicacy, especially when caught in winter. Because crawfish are hard to catch (the water was freezing), they sent peasants who had committed a crime to catch them. That’s how the idiom came about.
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Post by nana on Dec 25, 2020 9:10:48 GMT -5
Thanks Pooka! I always thought it was a weird thing to say. I still think that, but at least I now have some context! Merry Christmas!
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