Tuesday, September 30, 2003
more Willefordiana: Susan Waggoner ("Pepper")'s Vinegar Pie Recipe from "Miami Blues"
pastry for a 9-inch pie crust
1 Cup seedless raisins, all chopped up
1/4 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar (granulated)
1/2 teaspoon cinammon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice
4 large eggs, separated
3 tablespoons 5 per cent vinegar
1 pinch of salt
Cream the butter well with sugar. Add spices and blend well. Beat in yolks with a beater till smooth and creamy.
Stir in chopped raisins with a wooden spoon. Beat egg whites with a dash of salt until they are soft, then slide onto sugar mixture. Cut and fold lightly but well. Turn into pastry-lined pan. Bake fifteen minutes in preheated 425 F. oven. Reduce heat to 300 F. and bake for twenty minutes longer, or until top is beautifully browned and center of filling is jellylike. Cool on a rack for two or three hours before cutting.
pastry for a 9-inch pie crust
1 Cup seedless raisins, all chopped up
1/4 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar (granulated)
1/2 teaspoon cinammon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice
4 large eggs, separated
3 tablespoons 5 per cent vinegar
1 pinch of salt
Cream the butter well with sugar. Add spices and blend well. Beat in yolks with a beater till smooth and creamy.
Stir in chopped raisins with a wooden spoon. Beat egg whites with a dash of salt until they are soft, then slide onto sugar mixture. Cut and fold lightly but well. Turn into pastry-lined pan. Bake fifteen minutes in preheated 425 F. oven. Reduce heat to 300 F. and bake for twenty minutes longer, or until top is beautifully browned and center of filling is jellylike. Cool on a rack for two or three hours before cutting.
Whitstable Museum and Gallery: Photo Gallery
Spent an odd melancholy couple of days alone on the Kentish coast after I'd done readings in London and Cambridge. Whitstable a grand little ship shape town, famous for big skies and various seafood/beer combos (oysters and Guinness, or what I had, potted prawns on toast with the local St. Augustine Ale) and paradise after the depressing and slightly scary Margate, where I convinced myself that I'd gotten Verlaine and Rimbaud's old room in the unfriendly, windows-painted-shut b & b.
Spent an odd melancholy couple of days alone on the Kentish coast after I'd done readings in London and Cambridge. Whitstable a grand little ship shape town, famous for big skies and various seafood/beer combos (oysters and Guinness, or what I had, potted prawns on toast with the local St. Augustine Ale) and paradise after the depressing and slightly scary Margate, where I convinced myself that I'd gotten Verlaine and Rimbaud's old room in the unfriendly, windows-painted-shut b & b.
Hollywood super-hunk Andrew Jackson: "In one of several joint marketing efforts between the Treasury and consumer goods companies, the bill's design will grace bags of Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers, and the crackers themselves will be colored to match the new bills. "
Louis Menand on the Chicago Manual of Style: "The notion that the personal computer has eliminated the bone-crushing inefficiency of the typewriter, and turned composing The End Matter into a drive in the word-processing park, belongs to the myth that all work on a computer is “fun”—one of the Digital Age’s cruellest jokes"
Monday, September 29, 2003
more from David Perry: "We were meeting in the tree house to plot our escape from wage slavery at the pencil testing facility. We didn't know enough to keep the new kid away and he kept coming back.... "
Sunday, September 28, 2003
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