Writer's Block: Sweet Tooth
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When I was young, my mother used to make a candy at Christmas, from the Joy of Cooking, 1944 edition. (Another wedding present.) It was called Maple Cream, though it contained no maple. It was a mixture of brown sugar, cream and butter that came out like a hard fudge - a little like Scottish tablet. I loved it with a passion. I've never been able to make it myself, though I've tried, and I've used the same recipe, with my mother's notes in the margin. My ex-husband was able to make it.
In the last few years I've been enjoying sweets less and less. I like creamy things, not sweet things. Popcorn (with butter and salt) is my weakness, not chocolate.
There are no particular treats I associate with Easter. When I was a kid we'd visit my mother's German friend and her family, and I didn't like the German Easter treats at all.
I wish I could be nine years old again, though. I'd love the chocolate Spider-Man figures.
When I was young, my mother used to make a candy at Christmas, from the Joy of Cooking, 1944 edition. (Another wedding present.) It was called Maple Cream, though it contained no maple. It was a mixture of brown sugar, cream and butter that came out like a hard fudge - a little like Scottish tablet. I loved it with a passion. I've never been able to make it myself, though I've tried, and I've used the same recipe, with my mother's notes in the margin. My ex-husband was able to make it.
In the last few years I've been enjoying sweets less and less. I like creamy things, not sweet things. Popcorn (with butter and salt) is my weakness, not chocolate.
There are no particular treats I associate with Easter. When I was a kid we'd visit my mother's German friend and her family, and I didn't like the German Easter treats at all.
I wish I could be nine years old again, though. I'd love the chocolate Spider-Man figures.
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Speaking of sculpted chocolate...
Date: 2009-04-12 06:00 pm (UTC)Re: Speaking of sculpted chocolate...
Date: 2009-04-12 06:05 pm (UTC)Re: Speaking of sculpted chocolate...
Date: 2009-04-12 06:09 pm (UTC)Re: Speaking of sculpted chocolate...
Date: 2009-04-12 06:12 pm (UTC)Like doing the 3-D jigsaw puzzle on the Millennium Falcon I once assayed. It was terrible. I ended up swearing I'd never try to do a 3-D jigsaw again. But it was a fascinating experience while it lasted.
Re: Speaking of sculpted chocolate...
Date: 2009-04-12 08:23 pm (UTC)I've got one of Notre Dame, which is cool, and a clock which actually works, which is awesome.
Re: Speaking of sculpted chocolate...
Date: 2009-04-13 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-13 02:20 am (UTC)I far prefer salty snacks to sweet, myself. OTOH I do love sour-sweet, like lemon meringue pie (my m-i-l made that tonight -- yumm!) or sour jellies.
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Date: 2009-04-13 02:54 am (UTC)I do love caramel-covered popcorn, too. And Poppycock. And... well, altogether too many things.
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Date: 2009-04-13 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-13 02:57 am (UTC)