[lace-chat] food, glorious food!(lace-chat)

2004-11-18 Thread Helene Gannac
Tamara wrote: My step-daughter-in-law, who's Chinese, took me (and my DH, and my DS, and her own DH) to a China-town restaurant in Boston (MA, US) for a Sunday dim-sum brunch one time. We all hugely enjoyed it, but I was the only one who liked the desert... :) It must have been the Asian answer

Re: Re: [lace-chat] Looking for dust ruffles in the UK

2004-11-18 Thread Avital
Thanks very much! I was wondering whether it might be a terminology problem. I'll try some of the links you and Jenny sent me. Best wishes, Avital Hi Avital - I think it might be a terminology problem. Here in the UK they are called Valence(d) sheets and are usually a fitted sheet with the

[lace-chat] ice-cream (lace-chat)

2004-11-18 Thread Helene Gannac
Lynn wrote: Take 600 ml of pure cream (please don't ask conversions I don't know, probably a pint)whip it up, then add one can sweetened condensed milk (you can use the skim), just make sure you don't beat it into butter then flavourings, then chuck it in a suitable size container and freeze.

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] First Snowfall

2004-11-18 Thread Scotlace
Pene If you had remained in Mass. you would also have had snowfall. My Concord friend tells me they had 5 - 6 of snow last Friday. I can't imagine you would have had any less. Patricia in Wales who met you in Mass. some years ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace-chat] Fwd: push-pin

2004-11-18 Thread Janice Blair
My daughter asked if I had ever heard of an old English game called push-pin. I guess it was waaay before my time. It came up at college. Has anyone else heard about it and how to play it? Janice Judy Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:41:10 -0800 (PST) From: Judy Blair

[lace-chat] Push pin

2004-11-18 Thread Jean Nathan
There's reference to it on the following web page. Seems to be some kind of board game: http://www.fullbooks.com/Manners-Custom-and-Dress-During-the-Middle4.html Amongst the games comprised under the name of _tables_, it is sufficient to mention that of draughts, which was formerly played with

Re: [lace-chat] Push pin

2004-11-18 Thread Linda Walton
I think I remember my philosophy tutor telling us that push-pin was a gambling game, too. Linda Walton, (in wet and windy High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace-chat] Re: ice-cream (lace-chat)

2004-11-18 Thread Joy Beeson
At 07:43 PM 11/18/04 +1100, Helene Gannac wrote: Maybe I could try icecream cubes? Try a small loaf pan or cake pan. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne,

Re: [lace-chat] food, glorious food!(lace-chat)

2004-11-18 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Nov 18, 2004, at 8:15, Dearl Kniskern wrote: I just googled coconut milk and came up with the recipe for it at the top of the list and there were more down the line But I hate coconut, while I adored the almond-flavoured desert :( There's nuts, and then there's nuts... :) --- Tamara P

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Thanks!

2004-11-18 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
I've been e-connected for about 10 yrs (9 at home), and the followng sums up a part of the experience very well indeed... g I'm leaving in all the mis-spellings, bad punctuation, bad paragraph breaks, capitals in wrong place, etc - they add to the authentic flavour :) From: C.B. 2  I want to

[lace-chat] Cattern Cookies

2004-11-18 Thread Pene Piip
As Helen Bell has already mentioned, there is the recipe in the Jones Deer book which I prefer to use. Last year I made cookies instead of cakes. So I'll post my cookie recipe as a variant to their recipe. CATTERN COOKIES Combine in a large bowl 1.25 cups of plain flour with 1/4 teaspoon of