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Skriven 2007-08-14 10:18:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BURTON FORD
Ärende: Friday cotd. 987
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 ml-> Of course, unless it started a chain reaction that led to
 ml-> the end of the world.
 BF> Imagine a world up to the tree tops in Root Beer foam because DD used
 BF> too much Triple Chocolate.

Indeed. The reaction of ice cream and root beer has always
fascinated me. 

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

      Title: Divine Triple Chocolate Pie
 Categories: Chocolate, Pies, Desserts
      Yield: 6 servings

----------------------------CHOCOLATE PIE SHELL----------------------------
      1 c  Unbleached Flour; Sifted          1/2 oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate;
Grated
    1/4 ts Salt                                2 tb Cold Water
    1/3 c  Vegetable Shortening

------------------------------------PIE------------------------------------
    1/4 c  Sugar                               3 oz Baking Chocolate; Cut Up
      1 x  Unflavored Gelatin; 1 Env.        1/2 ts Vanilla
    1/4 ts Salt                              1/4 ts Cream Of Tartar
      1 c  Milk                              1/4 c  Sugar
      3 ea Eggs; Lg, Separated                 1 c  Heavy Cream; Whipped

----------------------------------GARNISH----------------------------------
      1 x  Sweetened Whipped Cream           1/2 oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate

  CHOCOLATE PIE CRUST:

  Sift the salt and flour into a bowl and cut in the shortening, using a
  pastry blender, until coarse crumbs form.  Add the chocolate and water,
  tossing with a fork, until the dough forms.  Press the dough firmly into a
  ball and then roll out on a lightly floured surface into a 13-inch circle.
  Loosely fit the dough into a 9-inch pie plate and trim the edge so that
  there it reaches 1 inch beyond the rim of the pie plate.  Fold the extra
  under the edge of the crust to from a ridge.  Flute the edge and prick the
  entire surface of the pie shell with a fork.  Bake at 400 degrees F for 12
  minutes or until a golden brown.  Cool on a rack.

  CHOCOLATE PIE:

  Stir the 1/4 cup of sugar, the gelatin and salt together in a 2-quart
  saucepan.  Stir in the milk and slightly beaten egg yolks.  Add 3 (1 oz)
  squares of unsweetened chocolate and cook over low heat, stirring
  constantly, until the chocolate melts and the gelatin dissolves.  Remove
  from the heat and stir in the vanilla.  Chill in the refrigerator, stirring
  occasionally, until the mixture is the consistency of unbeaten egg whites.
  Remove the chocolate mixture from the refrigerator and set aside
  Immediately beat the egg whites and cream of tartar, in another bowl, until
  foamy, using an electric mixer set on high speed.  Gradually add the 1/4
  cup of sugar, 1 Tbls at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue
  beating until stiff, glossy peaks form when the beaters are slowly lifted.
  When the chocolate mixture mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon, beat
  until smooth, using an electric mixer at medium speed. Fold the egg white
  mixture into the chocolate mixture; then fold in the whipped cream. Chill
  in the refrigerator until the mixture mounds well when spooned. Turn into
  the chocolate pie shell.  Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours or until
  set.  To serve, decorate the pie with puffs of sweetened whipped cream.
  Grate and sprinkle the chocolate over the whipped cream.

  Source unknown

-----

 BF> What a sticky way to go.

But more amusing than being vaporized by hydrogen atoms
butting heads and becoming helium or something.

 -=> Burton Ford said to Joan Macdiarmid <=-

 ML> These dissolve to leave little hard bits
 ML> in the mouth - simulated shell?
 BF> It tickles me that we have a friend who would think this was a made on
 BF> purpose  addition like that!  And it fills me with awe that there may
 BF> be a whole culture who would find it reasonable to add crunchy stuff to
 BF> mimic bits of crab shell.   [g]

I dunno, that was just the way I saw it. I thought this was
amusing, as well. It's nice to be amused.

 ml-> The beans were from a can, the dumpling from a glue factory.
 jm->  Well, I had the dumpling and liked it, 
 jm-> but it was a thing well suited to sauerbraten's gravy, so
 lm->  appropriate to the main dish.
 BF> Dumplings _are_ well suited to Sauerbraten gravy.   But those were not
 BF> dumplings, they were most like tennis balls, as someone already said.
 BF> I could only take two bites of mine and then I gave up.  Rare for this
 BF> Eat.  I manage to enjoy most foods.    [g]

Agreed here. Though I was kind of put off by some of the food,
and though the band was seriously loud (you don't get that kind
of amplification in German beer halls, where the conversation
is louder than the music), I found the Blob's experience kind
of amusing, too. Carol thought it a bit much, though, and my
reportage was colored by that fact - and that the knackwurst
smelled as though it came from the knacker's.

 ML> The band - three pieces tonight - was hideously loud. Someone
 ML> suggested that I should have brought my violin. I countered that
 ML> perhaps I should have brought my M-1 Carbine.
 BF> [grin]  

I actually 1. said that and 2. have access to an M-1 Carbine. But
not being a postal worker, I wouldn't actually do such a thing.

 BF> No polkas.  Shirley loves to jitterbug, but I have no idea how to move
 BF> to the jitterbig, so she jitterbugs and I vibrate a little.  One dance.

ntf lol rofl gbihaetist

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