I had forgotten all about this blog ... no-one looks at it so I'll let it sleep for a few more years.
Sunday, 18 December 2022
Thursday, 30 August 2018
The last day of August
So it's now just 19 days till I fly to the UK!
Today I found a recipe that I used to make quite often and it has been missing, despite me searching everywhere.
It turned up in the little book where I handwrite recipes which I use all the time!
It's an old favourite! I use a biscuit forcer to make a nice oval shaped biscuit.
Ingredients:
¾ cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1½ teaspons vanilla
1½ cups plain flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
about 48 pecans
Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy
2. Beat in the egg and vanilla
3. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Halve the dough and on a piece of wax paper form each half into a 15cm log using paper as a guide.
5. Chill for at least 4 hours or overnight.
6. Set oven to 175°C.
7. Cut about 6mm thick and place on baking tray about 7.5cm apart.
8. Press a peacan (half) on each biscuit.
9. Bake about 10-12 minutes.
EMH 31.8.18
Today I found a recipe that I used to make quite often and it has been missing, despite me searching everywhere.
It turned up in the little book where I handwrite recipes which I use all the time!
It's an old favourite! I use a biscuit forcer to make a nice oval shaped biscuit.
Butterscotch Pecan Thins
Ingredients:
¾ cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1½ teaspons vanilla
1½ cups plain flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
about 48 pecans
Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy
2. Beat in the egg and vanilla
3. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Halve the dough and on a piece of wax paper form each half into a 15cm log using paper as a guide.
5. Chill for at least 4 hours or overnight.
6. Set oven to 175°C.
7. Cut about 6mm thick and place on baking tray about 7.5cm apart.
8. Press a peacan (half) on each biscuit.
9. Bake about 10-12 minutes.
EMH 31.8.18
Friday, 24 March 2017
Sophia Stanger
Today I chanced upon a comment about my great-great grandmother, Sophia Stanger, which I had written on another blogging site . - Warrimoo history.
In the process I was reminded that I had set up this blogging space some years ago.
I had completely forgotten about it.
But I may start writng to it again because it does let me write wiithout compromising my privacy like I feel facebook and twitter do - and I don't have accounts there.
In the early 1980s, long before the internet, I bought a Commodore 64 computer. It came with a casset recorder - no floppy disk or hard disks - and no software was available when I bought it. So I made my own - and I soldered up a contraption that I enabled me to hook it up to a modem. - 125 bits one way and 300 bits the other -- we didn't know about Megabytes or Gigabytes then!.
Anyway, I signed up with a service known as fidonet where we discussed how to use our computers and I also found some people interested in genealogy.
The stuff I wrote there is STILL be found on the internet. Much of it is wrong. Much of it identified me and my family and much of it I wish I had never written. It is impossible to delete it now.
That's why I don't use facebook, instagram, twitter - and I'm reluctant to try blogging.
I like personal, one-to-one communication - and that's the only communication I really need.
I'll be interested to learn if anyone ever reads this . It is likely, anyway, that it and my blogging account will soon be deleted.
Bye from Me
In the process I was reminded that I had set up this blogging space some years ago.
I had completely forgotten about it.
But I may start writng to it again because it does let me write wiithout compromising my privacy like I feel facebook and twitter do - and I don't have accounts there.
In the early 1980s, long before the internet, I bought a Commodore 64 computer. It came with a casset recorder - no floppy disk or hard disks - and no software was available when I bought it. So I made my own - and I soldered up a contraption that I enabled me to hook it up to a modem. - 125 bits one way and 300 bits the other -- we didn't know about Megabytes or Gigabytes then!.
Anyway, I signed up with a service known as fidonet where we discussed how to use our computers and I also found some people interested in genealogy.
The stuff I wrote there is STILL be found on the internet. Much of it is wrong. Much of it identified me and my family and much of it I wish I had never written. It is impossible to delete it now.
That's why I don't use facebook, instagram, twitter - and I'm reluctant to try blogging.
I like personal, one-to-one communication - and that's the only communication I really need.
I'll be interested to learn if anyone ever reads this . It is likely, anyway, that it and my blogging account will soon be deleted.
Bye from Me
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Thursday, 12 July 2012
The very first blog
This is just a way of filling in some time and doing something new.
There's something worth looking at where Lindy & Yoshi were - wonder what it was?
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