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[Wat_Tyler]

Attn US Spoonies:
UK corn flour = US corn starch

Terminology and language differnces strike again

That is all...

Two countries separated by a common language.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Distant cousins separated by a common language…I think Sir Winston spoke that…

His momma was from the US…we got dibs on half of him!

George Bernard Shaw.

 

[Wonderer67]

George Bernard Shaw.

Bernie Shaw? That guy owes me twenty bucks!

 

[Missk_2022]

Thank you for the recipe, @Greylag

So we have it all in one place:

Shortbread Recipe (US Conversions)
INGREDIENTS

• ¾ cup Superfine Sugar (150 g)
• 1 ⅓ cups Butter, at room temperature (300 g)
• 3 ⅓ cups All-purpose Flour (400 g)
• 6 tbsp Cornstarch (50 g)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (or 320°F for a convection/fan oven) and grease a couple of baking trays with a little butter.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl until it becomes light and fluffy.
3. Sift in your flour and cornstarch and mix to form a stiff dough. Tip the dough onto a floured worktop and gently knead until smooth.
4. Roll your dough to around ⅜ inch thick (1 cm) and cut into your desired shapes. Transfer each shortbread to your pre-greased baking trays and prick each one with a fork on top.
5. Bake in your pre-heated oven for around 15–20 minutes until the edges of the shortbread are golden.
6. Remove from the oven and sprinkle a little sugar over each shortbread. Leave to cool on their tray for around 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

I knew if i only waited

 

[likes2watchU]

And, I'm current... for the moment
Catching up...

I have a shortbread recipe but i dont think a good recipe because it just is meh....i love shortbread and my mom does too

If you are a Shortbread Person, the right recipe is essential!!

https://www.creedmoorsports.com/wr-super-smoker-sight-smoker

Thanks, Wat - answered my own question looking at this just by thinkering it with my inside voice

Fucking old house idiosyncrasies.

Best wishes to the old dog. He reminds me of my last couple of years with Geezer Cat. He came up in conversation just yesterday. Still miss him, and Willow, too.

If we're lucky, they keep us company forever in cherished memories!

I need to make grub - breakfast grub.

For you... or them?

Get a torch and burn it off

I get this jasmine rice in 25lb bags at Costco business.

The jasmine acts like a scented item and I react. If a restaurant makes really fragrant rice I can't eat their food or even sit with friends while they eat.

My mom got an early programmable Amanda Radar range back in the late 70s and my sibs used to program it to explode an egg just as she got in the kitchen door from work.
She’d make them clean it up

Outrageous!! Sounds like our shenanigans - but we knew not to (knowingly) with mom. Mess up the kitchen? We would be so dead!

I woke up to pee a little while ago. It says 8 here. The house feels temperate so the heats working. I got back in bed and found the warm spot.hopefully doze off for a few more zzz

Hope you got some additional sleep today

That's outrageous.
I bet it was fun, too.

Me too... i cant sleep in even if i want to
I get up.so early for work
There will be naps

My mom would have beat me dead

Oh, there would have been beatings.

Fatal Beatings?

All of a sudden I’m headachy and getting a sore throat…just great. Maybe hit the Medac today before the big freeze.

Get a few nights of good, solid sleep, too!
It's good medicine.
I felt the start of a sore throat and feared I was getting sick, too. Turned up the humidity on my CPAP and got a couple of nights of solid, uninterrupted sleep. No more sore throat. Amazing! YMMV

Nothing wrong with naps

I don't understand... why are "wrong" and "naps" mentioned in the same sentence?

Naps are wonderful

Much better!

I had 3 days of indiscriminate eating last week and i am fighting to lose what i gained.... what a pain

You've got this!! Marathon not a sprint... and it's a zig-zag, not a straight line

Gotta make wood while the snow falls!

Wood doesnt last forever

I have always been of the impression that canned goods are good very far past the "expiration" dates, which are really "sell by" dates to chump you into tossing them and buying new when they "expire." Everything is about treating the consumer like s/he's a moron and tookening her/his money.

Do you remember when they started putting expiration dates on beer and soda/pop? My whole family laughed themselves silly

It may help if you will all adopt Scots terminology.... we say "sticks". That way I will know you are referring to something you will put in a fireplace rather than....

Oh never mind I am embarrassing myself now! Goes back to his cup of pissy tea mumbling to himself....

Here you are... tuck in with that and maybe some of your shortbread biscuits or a hobnob

In other news, Wat bought some better-than-average stuff while shooping for this fiasco. Bread pickings were slim, so there was mostly Pepperidge Farms stuff remaining. Got a loaf of sandwich stuff and some "sandwich rolls" - basically hamburger buns. Them damn things good yo. Just whipped up a couple of fried egg sammiches and it's some damn good eatin'. May have to continue doing this.

Have a friend who swears by the Brioche bread and buns at Aldi

I have a brain that does conversions, but most of mine are distances and not mass.

My brain... does not

There is an old show on You Tube called "Is it a good idea to microwave this?" I highly reccomend it..

Links for quicker viewing
Jogwheel: Can you microwave this - full archive 339 videos

The Microwave Channel link

I made some dip for chips-n-dip. I may make some tuna salad, too, since I have enough onions.

No onions if doing sharesies with the clouder... IDK about yours, but mine? Anytime there was tuna - there was Sharesies IYKYK

White Bread (even though I’m not supposed to be eat’n that anymore), one slice you put yer nut butter, the other slice mayonnaise (in my case now VeggieNaise,) slice yer Nanner, smash it all together.

This is another reason why I tend to pack Essential Foods when I travel
White bread - no, sweet? fuck no
nut butter - ok... sometimes
Mayonnaise - never on a nut butter sandwich (for me)
Nanner - No Fly List
Fucking Food!!

Are you ready for this mess? I want spring ASAP!

Mother Nature says what?

23/15. It's fucking cold out there.

Sounds like a football play
23-15
23-15
Hut
Hut
Hike

You said prick . . . .

He started it!

 

[Oldermom935]

12° here feels like 4° expecting snow to start overnight into Monday. Expecting 12" to 18" of snow. Boston expecting 24" in 36 hours. Expecting 30-40 mph. Winds.

 

[dkak001]

This is perfect!!! Next time I have a microwave to destroy, I'ma do this.

Naah, do this instead.

Learn how to cast iron in your kitchen!

Imagine all the goodies you could make for old cars and Pew Pews if you could cast your own iron!

 

[dkak001]

I am used to mass to weight conversion... which only works on earth.

You can just take your slugs and stones and go elsewhere!

 

[dkak001]

There is an old show on You Tube called "Is it a good idea to microwave this?" I highly reccomend it..

I'll have to look that up.

Sounds like it might be similar to the Hydraulic Press Channel on youtube?

 

[AlexAtNight]

You can just take your slugs and stones and go elsewhere!

YOU WILL USE MY FURLONGS PER FORTNIGHT AND ENJOY IT!

Hehehe... sorry.

 

[dkak001]

Suffer is right. I was brought up on imperial and still think that way .. worked in a butchers and no way could I have coped with the buggery of metric

Just remember that 1um is nearly twenty millionths of an inch, and you'll be fine!

 

[dkak001]

I knew if i only waited

It's like fishin', fish where you know the fish'll bite!

 

[Missk_2022]

I want to eat cookies

I want to lose weight

These 2 ideas are not friends

 

[dkak001]

YOU WILL USE MY FURLONGS PER FORTNIGHT AND ENJOY IT!

Hehehe... sorry.

You can just keep your Furlong to yourself too!

There might be children present!

 

[AlexAtNight]

I did have a great moment in a class, because I teach 3d printers and most are based on European designs, so... metric... but someone asked what imperial was better at, implying nothing...

Until I told them we were racing. You tell me what half of .3795 mm is, before I tell you what half of 7/16ths of an inch is. 7/32nds.

 

[Nightbird]

I'll have to look that up.

Sounds like it might be similar to the Hydraulic Press Channel on youtube?

I dont know anything about that channel..

 

[likes2watchU]

I want to eat cookies

I want to lose weight

These 2 ideas are not friends

Unless you make Chocolate Laxitive Cookies... which, for reasons, I do not recommend. IYKYK

 

[likes2watchU]

I'll have to look that up.

Sounds like it might be similar to the Hydraulic Press Channel on youtube?

Hydraulic Press Channel

Link for ease of finding/watching
All y'all sciencey, engineery types do the comparison

 

[Wonderer67]

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Such great looking dogs!!

 

[Wonderer67]

Shortbread you say:

INGREDIENTS (sorry it’s metric)

• 150 g Caster Sugar (Superfine Sugar)
• 300 g Butter (at room temperature)
• 400 g Plain Flour (All-purpose Flour)
• 50 g Cornflour (Corn Startch)

METRIC (UK) | CUPS (US)

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat your oven to 180°c (160°c for a fan assisted oven) or Gas Mark 3 and grease a couple of baking trays with a little butter.
• Cream together the butter & sugar in a large bowl until it becomes light & fluffy.
• Sift in your flour & cornflour and mix to form a stiff dough. Tip the dough onto a floured worktop and gently knead until smooth.
• Roll your dough to around 1cm thick and cut into your desired shapes. Transfer each shortbread to your pre-greased baking trays and prick each one with a fork on top.
• Bake in your pre-heated oven for around 15-20 minutes until the edges of the shortbread are golden.
• Remove from the oven and sprinkle a little sugar over each shortbread. Leave to cool on their tray for around 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

I might want to try this!

 

[Wonderer67]

I am gonna have to de metric it
But thats ok...
I jave never used corn flour maybe that is why mine werent what i wanted. Dont get me wrong it tastes good but texture was odd. Do u ever do anything to it or is that blasphemy?

I believe the technical term is
demetriculating it.

 

[Wonderer67]

Pennsylvania always was an old whore.


In other news, Wat bought some better-than-average stuff while shooping for this fiasco. Bread pickings were slim, so there was mostly Pepperidge Farms stuff remaining. Got a loaf of sandwich stuff and some "sandwich rolls" - basically hamburger buns. Them damn things good yo. Just whipped up a couple of fried egg sammiches and it's some damn good eatin'. May have to continue doing this.

Sounds yummy!

 

[Wonderer67]

I have a brain that does conversions, but most of mine are distances and not mass.

I have one innate skill.

I can estimate weight, distance and time (metric or imperial), like its no one’s business.

It took me 27 - 30 seconds to type this.

 

[Wonderer67]

Attn US Spoonies:
UK corn flour = US corn starch

Terminology and language differnces strike again

That is all...

Aaaah. I get it!

 

[Wonderer67]

12° here feels like 4° expecting snow to start overnight into Monday. Expecting 12" to 18" of snow. Boston expecting 24" in 36 hours. Expecting 30-40 mph. Winds.

Are you back home, OM? Your weather report sounds like it…