BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 02:33 AM

Sometimes I live in the city; An' sometimes I live in the town. Sometimes I take a great notion... To chow Caitrin's cookies down.

Goodnight, Caitrin McGillicuddy, wherever you are! Farewell ,sweet Aine, until the morrow; When cookies shall dispel all mortal sorrow.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 04:45 PM

I've got a recipe for 17th Century cakes (actually they're big soft cookies like Easter biscuits) that have cream and sherry in them. Ran out of sherry once and used madiera instead...... MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....! anyone interested?

LTS

(I've made them with my home made beetroot wine for lack of any other alcohol, the beetroot wine had fermented twice - that was interesting!)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM

Go for it, Liz!! These sound wonderful!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 04:23 PM

Please share, Liz!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 04:46 PM

Shrewsbury cakes? whatever, yes, let's see the recipe!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:27 PM

Caitrin, you invisible silent sorceress! We send you praise; look on our cookie fest pigout session here in real-time and accept our thanks for your most Delicious Blessings. These Great Big Cookies are the cat's pajamas!!

(Try running that through an AI translator!)

With gratitude,

Amos

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:44 PM

We are pleased to hear that you enjoyed our blessings. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:48 PM

Amos - if that's a challange, I can't REACH the blasted translator from here....but I'm willing to try from home!

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:56 PM

Dear Caitrin,

If you haven't seen it already, please check out Amos' song, 'Gastronomic Passions' on the Mudcat Songbook -- It mentions you a *few* times (hahaha).

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:57 PM

Well, I'm not convinced, being a professional wordsmith, that we'll see AI do anything very poetic with language for a long time to come, if ever. My personal secret opinion is that AI is an oxymoron.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Micca
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:59 PM

Heath and Safety warning,
Those of us who know think it only fair to warn you that anything involving Liz the Squeak and alcohol is to be treated with great care cf the permanently burning Christmas pud, the Chocolate mousse that were stronger than 3 double whiskys,and her capacity for consuming madeira. but i can vouch for the recipe, all we have to do now is get her to publish it,COME ON LIZ.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 06:50 PM

Do we need to get a "Cheerleader Thingie" going here?,
Yeah, Liz,Yeah, Liz
Bake 'em Up Bake 'me Up!
Post it!Post it! Post it!!!
GGOOOOO, LIZ!
I need a recipe for a gather next week pretty please?:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 07:30 PM

Pretty please Liz, please, please, please, please, pleeeeeeease!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 07:36 PM

I, too, humble myself before the Liz -- please, please, please Liz, do not keep us in such agony any longer! Post the darn recipe or I'll be callin' up my friends with the crooked noses and cauliflower ears . . . (just kidding -- the guys I know that look like are the sweetest fellas in the world, if truth be known).

Come Liz, arm wrestle that madeira away from Micca and start typing!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:54 AM

okay - the tranlators don't like that paragraph. Oddly enough, the word most of them had the most trouble with was "cat's"

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:57 AM

Thread creep galore, Mario! What did the translator say "the cat's pajamas" meant?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:18 AM

Caitrin and the Geeks (Tune: Bar'bry ellen)

When Caitrin to this thread appeared,
Her cookies were appealing!
And soon the galley in my house
Was a mess from floor to ceiling!

I stirred and poured and measured out, And ruined several aprons!
I broke my wristbone stirring dough
Designed by charmin' Caitrin!

And when the over doors had closed
And I was done with messing!
I said a prayer to the Cookie God
And asked for Caitrin's blessing.

And when the baking smell arose
I thought it most auspicious
I gobbled down the first one out!
That cookie was delicious!

I ate another few just then
And kept on madly baking!
And soon the counters were all full
And the table nigh to breaking!

Then slowly, slowly, I stood up
My awe for Caitrin mounting!
So many cookies, ne'er I'd seen,
Too many far for counting!

I stacked them up on platters high
When my own waistline was dragging.
And staggered with them to the door
They filled my station wagon.

Then to the office I repaired
All carbo'd out and laggard!
And down the hall, to a table there,
With Caitrin's cakes I staggered.

'Twas early early, in the morn
When first I brought such plenty!
But before noon, I swear 'tis true
The platters all stood empty!

So if you have too many made,
Ye need not trash or bail them!
Just bring them to a Software House
And let the geeks inhale them!!

Thanks for the yummie cookies!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:24 AM

Amos,

How do you do this so early in the morning? May I add this, yet another Amos Wonder, to the Songbook, please?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:34 AM

Amos - the translator I was using just puts the english into brackets if it doesn't have a correspondence. it was "cat's" rather then "pajamas" that didn't translate the most....maybe because possessive? I'll have to try again using "the pajamas of the cat"

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:55 AM

Anything I post here of a creative nature that has any value is yours forever, Texas Lady. As the Keeper of the Tome, consider it yours. If you can fix the line where I missed putting in the break it'll look better!

And early morning after the first assault on the beaches of reality is the best time to dredge up doggerel!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:58 AM

I wish I had time to do things in the morning....

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:07 AM

Mornings are Time, too, Mbo! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:45 AM

But time to wake up at 6:30 every morning and getting a runny nose and freezing my freckled cheeks off because of the nasty ol' wind is not good time! Goatee keeps the chin warm--but the cheeks don't have no hair--maybe I need a ski mask! Ha! I'd rather be writing songs anyday! Especially on "pullcart" day!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:53 AM

Mbo, lad,

You can come to San Diego; we have rain that's warm enough to walk in, beaches long enough to walk on, it never freezes (hardly ever) and February, cruelest month, is light jacket weather. Outstanding universities, high-tech jobs, and glad to have ye, too!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:03 PM

I know all about San Diego! I lived in Oceanside for 3 years and San Clemente for another 3. We sure went to a lot of museums in San Diego! Not to mention Scripps Aquarium! And my mother still has nightmares about the tortuously hilly San Diego Zoo! Wait....what about The Santa Anna Winds? Then your cheeks MELT off!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:16 PM

Caitrin, 'ch 'n anwel 'n dawedog ddewines! Anfonasom 'ch arawd; drem ymlaen 'n chog yl bwyta debyced dyrchod 'ma i mewn 'n sylweddol-adeg a chymer 'n ddiolch canys 'ch 'n fwyaf 'n bêr Bendithion. 'n hyn Gymaint Gymaint Chog ydy 'r cysgu ddillad chan 'r cath!

back to english this gives....

Cait, do bow; assembled debyced hogs here confound I may be used conjuring Blessings. I have connected the cat!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:29 PM

Laughing out loud MM!!

Confound indeed I may be used conjuring Blessings!! Heee hee! AI, my royal Irish funnybone!!

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:33 PM

your Irish majesty I bow to your superior knowledge if not to your debyced hogs. Is debyced english? what does it mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:37 PM

Hey, I'm no debyced hog! BTW Mario, what in the world WAS that?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:42 PM

Debycing is what that translator did to the English paragraph we fed it. Debyced it all to hell, it did. Never saw such debyced prattle in all my years as a Bycer!

(Oops! That's suposed to be a secret known only to the Royal Order! )

AI poop! Hee hee!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:46 PM

Doesn't the guy in "The Orange & The Green" say "Me being strictly neutral, I byced everyone in sight"? Captain Mario, I think we need Geordi to take a look at that universal translator!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 07:33 PM

ALRIGHT!!!! I get the message, I will post the recipe tomorrow, when I don't have anything else to do, so far this week I've done one church meeting, one sewing evening, one church service and a birthday party, and it is only Wednesday!!! Tomorrow is Thurs, and I'm not doing anything (yet) so I will sort out the recipe. They aren't Shrewsbury cakes, that is a much flatter, biscuit (cookie) recipe. These are just 17th Century, and have raisins in them.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 07:44 PM

Oh thank you! Goody, goody, goody!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Bert
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:09 PM

They sound great bubbles(Liz) the Squeak. I want that recipe. Hurry up.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:12 PM

Thank you, Liz!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 05:55 PM

I don't do the cup thing....... Orthe metric thing, heck, I've only just stopped counting the sticks of firewood out for the stove!

8 ounces (oz) plain flour
4 oz unsalted butter
2 oz brown sugar
2 oz caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg or cinnamon
8 oz currants or raisins - these can be soaked in sherry if you like......
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon cream
1 small measure sherry, sweeter the better. Any sweetish, fortified wine can be used, like Madeira, white port... it is supposed to be sack, an old English drink that was sweetish and quite alcoholic. Anything than drink the water....

Rub the butter and flour together until crumbly. Add sugar, spices and currants. Mix well. Add the other ingredients and mix to a stiff dough. If it is too sticky, add more flour. On a floured board, roll out to about half an inch thick (the thickness of the average wooden spoon handle - a use for the one that broke making Caitrins' cookies earlier....) and cut into rounds with a large cutter or the wide end of a pint glass. Prick with a fork and bake in a moderate oven - gas mark a5, 350f or 180c. Turn out to cool on a rack and dust with caster sugar before cool.

Enjoy - they can be used as Easter biscuits if you like, they are similar in construction, but a bit richer with the cream and sherry and that.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:00 PM

yay Squeak!

I'll do 'em this weekend.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:09 PM

So who is going to produce the Mudcat cookie book.....

Have I just talked myself into a job?

What the hell, if people are interested.........?

Anyone want to send me cookie recipies do so at:
[e-mail]

I've already got a few......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:48 PM

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Liz!!!

Do the recipes for the book have to be for cookies? I make a mean apple, raisin and cinnamon pie -- ends up tasting like mince meat, only *much* better! Will your take that one?

-- Áine

(P.S. If we keep this up, we'll have to take up a contribution for a personal trainer for Amos!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 07:53 PM

OK, Big Red! Let's see it!!

A