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  1. "Skeet" McD

    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    Uh: that would be called "Company D, fall out. First rank: shovels. Second rank: picks." ;) It's easier if you can whip 'em if they don't want to :eek: "Skeet" Late Lieut., Co. A, 5th N-H Vols.
  2. "Skeet" McD

    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    Dear BBB: Yes, you really DO...so do I :eusa_doh: Now, actually BUILDING it: that's another matter. It looks like, if you have sufficient time and willing hands (and don't mind a few failures after all that work!)...it can be done fairly easily. The best book in English that I've found is Kiko...
  3. "Skeet" McD

    Books on Depression Era Life?

    Dear FFG, Interestingly, the first thing that came to my mind was...a cookbook. A good third of it, however, is quotes of various lengths--usually pretty short--from informants about life during the Depression, most of them food-related in some way. The book is very Midwestern and heavily rural...
  4. "Skeet" McD

    Books on Depression Era Life?

    Dear FFG, Are you looking only for fiction, or are you interested in history and/or autobiography as well? "Skeet"
  5. "Skeet" McD

    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    Dear Betty, by all means, do try again. Starters do need--if not love and attention at all times--good handling practices. And it's important to make sure you've really got them revved up and going before you use them (if you want to eat bread THAT day, that is :rolleyes: ). But, if you've had...
  7. "Skeet" McD

    Is there something you really want to wear but are chicken?

    Hey, Talbot: thanks for the encouragement, and congratulations on your good luck. Send some this way, OK? ;) Cheers, from a happy little Vegemite, "Skeet"
  8. "Skeet" McD

    What the heck does Jughead wear?

    Hey, Goose...I think you just added a strengthening point to the issue raised by ReetPleat: I'm guessing your beanie was exactly that: a beanie, no brim. Once upon a decade...back before WWII....such headgear was the distinguishing feature of college freshmen. I doubt they were worn much after...
  9. "Skeet" McD

    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    To take the last first, as we have on good authority ;) : Thanks! It WAS good. Haven't finished the SRB yet....and I honestly do think it is an acquired taste. I believe the unique taste becomes more prominent as the loaf ages; when eaten fresh, it was my impression that (if you hadn't been...
  10. "Skeet" McD

    What the heck does Jughead wear?

    I think you are dead-on, RP. Young kids always like to "be older"...and children tend to be very, very conservative, in that they keep on doing things long after others give up...childhood is the ultimate bastion of folklore and folk practice. "Skeet"
  11. "Skeet" McD

    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    Two-fer... Spent the end of last week trying out salt-rising bread, using an 1881 receipt as the basis: very strange stuff, in that it is leavened neither chemically, nor with yeast...but with a bacterium: Clostridium perfringens (which is a toxin, and leads to unfortunate intestinal results if...
  13. "Skeet" McD

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    That's what I thought: many happy memories. That was MY first pocket watch, back in the day (the mid-60s) when I was a young teenager with exceptionally...odd tastes and interests. I still have that watch; I carried it for several years, until I was lucky enough to meet an old Railroad man in...
  14. "Skeet" McD

    A Gentleman knows when he's had enough to drink, when...

    Arrah: easy there, lad: easy! It's only Thursday, you know! (says "Skeet" with several IPAs in HIM!) :rolleyes: Faith: if you've got a keyboard in front of you, you can't get into TOO much trouble, right? We won't have to take your keys away from you.... Prosit! "Skeet"
  15. "Skeet" McD

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Waiting impatiently... Dear CLM, I expect you've already noticed you posted the wristwatch twice....sure would like to see your pocketwatch! Faith, don't worry about what it cost...or, for that matter, what it IS...if you like it, and it's something you've wanted a long time...I'd like to...
  16. "Skeet" McD

    Is there something you really want to wear but are chicken?

    Exactly. But...I think a lot of the "fear" expressed here might well be put in that category as well...in other words, counfounding "fear" with "desire tempered with thinking better of it." However, we can ALL convince ourselves of things we would prefer...so I think there is some point in...
  17. "Skeet" McD

    Ruffed Grouse

    Speaking for myself, if using I crush a few and add them to the pan sauce. They are quite pungent, so with a delicate bird like a pa'tridge, less is more IMHO. The faint perfume, however, is wonderful and evokes the outdoors delightfully. "Skeet"
  19. "Skeet" McD

    Is there something you really want to wear but are chicken?

    Where's the line? A lot of the issues appearing were tackled, rather well, I think, over here: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=39885 in respect of the "how much you believe in what you're wearing sorts out whether it's a costume or not" angle. But there's more here, I...
  20. "Skeet" McD

    The Occult, are you a believer?

    Ahhh...you speak in....parables! Do you happen to have a few loaves, or fishes? I'm getting hungry....;) "Skeet" PS: remember: the thing that makes them "pies" is....the outer shell. We must look beyond the superficial! :rolleyes:
  21. "Skeet" McD

    The Occult, are you a believer?

    Amen, Brother! And, unlike some scary movies...there might really be reason to be scared. (See also: The Exorcist) :eek: On the other hand, I'm not so worried about a 400-foot-tall lizard stalking up out of the sea to nibble on cities. Should I be? [huh] :rolleyes: I sense another zig of the...
  22. "Skeet" McD

    The Occult, are you a believer?

    Dear John, I'm pretty sure I know what you MEAN...but, Heaven knows, there's enough chance to misunderstand each other--and enough differing opinions that there will be plenty of opportunity to do so:rolleyes: --it seems you are a Christian of an Evangelical persuasion? As Christians, we (and...
  23. "Skeet" McD

    What the heck does Jughead wear?

    From the Land of Archie and Jughead... I live next door to Haverhill, MA...which is where Archie and Jughead is set; the cartoonist started the strip, apparently, when he was a student at the local High School...and the school in the strip is HHS. But all of that is ancillary...my father was...
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