We have two delicacies for you today. First, another entry from that peripatetic adventurer from OldPort.
The second is from the usual source:
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday Crab Blogging (late)
We have two delicacies for you today. First, another entry from that peripatetic adventurer from OldPort.
The second is from the usual source:
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I was so fixated on the red claws that didn't notice until looking closely at the picture that they're "silicone cake cases". Even ignoring the side thought that this might be a euphemism for brassiere, I really can't intuitively believe in them. I was brought up with any flexible plastic turning melty and toxic at oven temperature; even though I know intellectually that silicone cookware is real, my gut feeling is that it's an impossible abomination.
You can bake gorgeous, scrummy muffins and cupcakes without the need of a muffin tin by simply filling with cake mixture and placing on a baking tin.
Scrummy?????? That would be Rugby talk for something indelicate
"Scrummy": surprisingly old. Earliest OED citation is:
"Excellent, fine, ‘smashing’; enjoyable, delicious: 1915 MRS. H. WARD Eltham House i. 14 You've got to change and rest..before dinner!.. You've got to put on a scrummy frock too!"
But these days Google Books easily tops that: 1844.
And if you read down the page of "Evenings of a Working Man" you would find that "Tom 'tabbers his crabs' a moment longer..". You see, crabs always appear at the most opportune time.
Now "tabbers" is an interesting word. It appears in the following bawdy ballad:
With hammer on kettle he tabbers all day,
At night he will tumble on strumil or hay;
He calls me his jewel, his delicate duck,
And then he will take up my smicket to -
This way etc.
I wonder if that is a lemony smicket
Mr. Crabs is visiting Stonehenge? Or is he being attacked (or admired?) by a pack of green squares (the bane of all very cool crabs)?
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