Posted on 08/31/2006 5:21:11 PM PDT by snugs
Today the President addressed the 88th Annual American Legion National Convention in Salt Lake City
He also met with with the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Later on he attended a fundraiser for the reelection campaign of Sen Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Today Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne celebrate their 42nd Wedding anniversary.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Personally I do not like salad dressing apart from a little salad cream on my lettuce the rest I like as is.
How about condensed milk sandwiches that was an old fashioned favourite in Britain.
Youngsters nowadays would turn their noses up at that in favourite of some sticky coloured greasy looking cake that has no flavour but is the latest craze. Not wishing to affend any one but I think we have imported some of the worst aspects of American cooking rather than some of the lovely dishes that there are out there.
Will freep you shortly.
I must admit apart from Yorkshire Pudding I do not have recipes in my head and alway refer to cookery books.
I think you are right. We corn on the cob or the tinned or frozen sweetcorn but cornbread has not caught on we continue with our yorkshire pudding. Probably with ham years ago we would have served a suet pudding.
Yes that is something I have had to get used to in doing US recipes cups and spoons whereas I was always bought up to weigh everything.
I use imperial weights in fact I only have a decent imperial scales the metric one is a cheap plastic thing that I only use if I cannot successfully convert the recipe to "English".
Another thing I had to watch if the term quart was used because in Britain 40 oz = one quart not 32 oz.
Eleanor, I doubt you'd need it by now but I had this stored on my PC and with all the recipes being exchanged am going to post it. Perhaps it might be useful for us on the west side of the pond.
Much more info here (VERY useful link)
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/tips/british-measurements.html
Cheat sheet:
* To convert US fluid ounces to British fluid ounces - multiply by 1.04
* To convert US pints to British pints - multiply by 0.83
METRIC EQUIVALENCIES
1/4 cup 60 ml
1/3 C. 80 ml
3/4 cup 180 ml
1/2 C. 125 ml
1 C. 250 ml
2 C. 500 ml
2+1/2 cups 675 ml
3 C. 750 ml
1/4 t. 1 ml
1 t. 5 ml
2 t. 10 ml
8 oz 225 g
2 T. 30 ml
4 C. 1 L
9 x 5 inch = 22 x 12 cm
CENTIGRADE EQUIVALENTS to FARENHEIT
Farenheit Centigrade Gas Mark
80 30 -
100 40 -
240 115 1/4
265 130 1/2
290 140 1
300 150 -
310 155 2
325 160 -
335 170 3
350 175 -
355 180 4
375 190 -
380 195 5
400 200 6
425 220 7
450 230 8
470 245 9
A Note on Butter and Margarine
When a US recipe calls for "half a stick of butter", it is referring to the fact that butter and other fats are sold in "sticks". You normally buy butter in packs of a pound, consisting of four sticks, and they're usually marked in quarters (sometimes also in eighths), making it easy to measure off, say, 2 ounces of butter, or "half a stick".
Salad cream never made it on this side of the Atlantic. When I lived in England and Ireland, that was one taste I definitely did not acquire.
Even one commercial mayonnaise tastes different from another here, and as with Coke vs Pepsi, people stick with the one they like.
How about condensed milk sandwiches that was an old fashioned favourite in Britain.
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I've never heard of that. Condensed milk is widely used in countries with a British (colonial) heritage. Here I only use it to make fudge or pumpkin pie.
In Jamaica, workmen used to make a drink with Guinness, condensed milk and oatmeal, before they did a day's labor in the tropical sun.
I'm going to try to go.
My answer is
Not were my Dad comes from! :o)
He's on a commercial here with "mini me" from the Austin Powers flicks. He's called Fat Bastard, and is huge and Scot. Drooling - looks at mimi me and says "Get in my belly" It's funny!
The only mayonnaise to my knowledge I have tasted (apart from what is in shop bought sandwiches and salad dressings) is Hellmann's and I find that too thick and too rich and also bland.
I prefer the sharpness of salad cream but that is loosing its popularity to mayo mainly I think with more and more American type salad recipes being used.
Interesting
What are turnip greens? I assume I know them as something different.
We have white turnip and yellow turnip (swede) but I have never heard of green.
Thanks Gretchen - saved to my Recipe directory on computer.
I have recently invested in cup measures so that I can use the American recipes but the other measures will help.
You are right, the consistency and the sharpness are very different. It all has to do with what we taste as children.
Cool!
You met the DC chapter of FR,did you meet Kristinn and TSgTakoma?
And less prone to earthquakes.
Link to take a peek at Fat Bastard -
http://www.answers.com/topic/fat-bastard
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