LOL
A serious matter like:
Should you first pour milk in your cup and then the tea?
Or should you first pour tea in your cup and then the milk?

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A serious matter like:
Should you first pour milk in your cup and then the tea?
Or should you first pour tea in your cup and then the milk?

If it is Thai Tea, tea first!

LOL
A serious matter like:
Should you first pour milk in your cup and then the tea?
Or should you first pour tea in your cup and then the milk?

The reasons for that are historical. When tea became popular in the UK, the quality of drinking vessels was poor, so if you did not put the milk in first, the vessel would very likely break. Just like many drinking glasses today, says he, who last week put a half pint glass in some very hot water and it went, Tink. I pulled it back out but only the top half responded.

LOL
A serious matter like:
Should you first pour milk in your cup and then the tea?
Or should you first pour tea in your cup and then the milk?

The reasons for that are historical. When tea became popular in the UK, the quality of drinking vessels was poor, so if you did not put the milk in first, the vessel would very likely break. Just like many drinking glasses today, says he, who last week put a half pint glass in some very hot water and it went, Tink. I pulled it back out but only the top half responded.

I see. But even today it is a constant argument:)
Whether you put milk in your cup before or after the hot water is a constant argument among British people. Science may say milk first, but many would strongly disagree
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/oct/03/how-to-make-tea-science-milk-first

LOL
A serious matter like:
Should you first pour milk in your cup and then the tea?
Or should you first pour tea in your cup and then the milk?

The reasons for that are historical. When tea became popular in the UK, the quality of drinking vessels was poor, so if you did not put the milk in first, the vessel would very likely break. Just like many drinking glasses today, says he, who last week put a half pint glass in some very hot water and it went, Tink. I pulled it back out but only the top half responded.

I see. But even today it is a constant argument:)
Whether you put milk in your cup before or after the hot water is a constant argument among British people. Science may say milk first, but many would strongly disagree
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/oct/03/how-to-make-tea-science-milk-first

If making tea with a teabag in a cup or mug the milk must be put in last. The water needs to be as close to boiling as possible.

Try making a good cup of tea up a high mountain above 7,000 ft, it doesn't work the boiling point of water is too low.

To our US cousins, please take note of this para from the linked article.

As an aside, having been to America and sampling the weak tea made there, it must be stressed that the teabag should either be in a pot or the mug itself; it is not sufficient just for it to be in the same room.

I went to eat dinner at this place.

The restraunt was nice. The size of the place was bigger than expected but on the smaller Japanese style. Food was good. The tender braised pork didn't need no extra help being broken into small pieces. The chopsticks make short work of it. But being on campus makes me think think I paid a small premium to dine out.

Miso Ramen

And yes. There are noodles hiding under there.

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Miso ramen:)
I haven't tried that but thats really a Japanese classic.
It would take a lifetime to address all the possible variations.
Strange that corn is an ingredient in it.
Whatever. Douzo meshiagare

Looks nice, Admiral. I recently found a new favorite Oriental spot, and it's very reasonably priced and just down the road a couple miles, so I'm a happy camper.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Trader Joe's coffee ice cream makes me happy. :~)

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Sylta:)
A dish we enjoy very much in the countries around the Baltic Sea.
In Estonia it's called Sült but in Russia ХОЛОДЕЦ (Jelly). Whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbnzEJSbRg
But I do think Boris forgot the pickled beets servings...

Darn you, Martha Stewart!!!

The rhubarb in my garden is growing phenomenally well this year, due to the oddly alternating rain showers and periods of warm weather that we've been having out here this spring. I felt like baking this afternoon and decided to surprise Eric with an upside-down rhubarb cake. I found a good sounding recipe by Martha Stewart on-line.

The recipe called for a 9 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides, which I used.

The cake rose well above the pan sides, there is a layer of melted butter now burnt to the bottom of my oven and my kitchen smells like smoke.

I have a 10 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides. Why didn't Martha tell me to use that pan?

You just forgot to factor in the extra rise that you add to things Angela. ;-)

Cheers.

You just forgot to factor in the extra rise that you add to things Angela. ;-)

LOL and thank you kindly.

Oh Martha!

Martha, Martha, Martha.

Ever I saw you as "Her Royal Highness of House-wifery"... my "Majestic Matriarch of Meal Preparation", a veritable "Sultana of Sustenance", an "Empress of All Things Edible".... heck... the very "Dominatrix of Domesticity"!!!

How could she have failed me so? Woe is me!!!

But wait. Could this failure of a recipe been printed as a simple test of my faith?

Oh Martha!!! I should NEVER have doubted you.

Can you find it in your heart to forgive your humble servant?

Angela, please accept my appologeees:
I read this bit

The rhubarb in my garden is growing phenomenally well this year, due to

Then my brain jumped into strange mode and had you disposing of the evidence of some unspeakable act by burying it under the rhubarb patch, which prompted the growth spurt......

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

...Then my brain jumped into strange mode and had you disposing of the evidence of some unspeakable act by burying it under the rhubarb patch, which prompted the growth spurt......

I believe all s@h posters, even the most irritating ones (of which, thankfully, there are darn few!), are present and accounted for...

Pardon?!

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Darn you, Martha Stewart!!!

The rhubarb in my garden is growing phenomenally well this year, due to the oddly alternating rain showers and periods of warm weather that we've been having out here this spring. I felt like baking this afternoon and decided to surprise Eric with an upside-down rhubarb cake. I found a good sounding recipe by Martha Stewart on-line.

The recipe called for a 9 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides, which I used.

The cake rose well above the pan sides, there is a layer of melted butter now burnt to the bottom of my oven and my kitchen smells like smoke.

I have a 10 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides. Why didn't Martha tell me to use that pan?

Always line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil.

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~Sue~

Always line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil.

Good point, Sue.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Always line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil.

Good point, Sue.