The Bluestocking Inn, cocktails and cocoa and all

[DeanElderberry]

Opening soon in a salubrious location.

And thanks to the miraculous qualities, although we will indeed have

One-steps and two-steps and the divil knows what new steps
We know that we never would be dull again, bedad
We'll have wine, porter and lemonade.
We'll have cocktails and cocoa and all
We'll have champagnes tonight
But NO real pains next morning
Tonight when we dance at the Bluestocking Ball

slight apologies to Frank Harte

I enjoy hot Weetabix from time to time. 🙂Our mother used to give it to us on cold winter mornings to "warm our stomachs" before the walk either to primary school in the village or the bus to secondary school in town.

Never tried hot weetabix or marmite.
But somehow Weetabix sets like cement if allowed to harden anywhere.

Although I heard a weetabix advert on radio earlier tonight.

I had just about acclimatised to metric when I moved to the USA, and was promptly sent back to imperial measurements. I think of measurements and weights in imperial, though I now have to mentally convert British pints and gallons to American pints and gallons. I can, however, happily cook in metric, imperial or American cups thanks to a good pair of electric scales for the former two and measuring cups for the latter. I am now back to thinking in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius for temperatures, though I can readily convert one to the other if I have time to think about it and exact accuracy isn't important (from F to C subtract 30 and divide the answer by 2). Ditto miles to kilometers and vice versa.

Life has, in fact, since I moved here, become a constant exercise in translation one way or another, including linguistically.

46 posts from the move. Any volunteers?

I am a bit worried that the gerbils will be more chaotic and ill-discipline than usual because Maud is away. Grünhilde hasn't managed a move before.

@Boiledbeetle, will you keep Maud updated with our location? I think she'll be gone for a few weeks so it may be the thread after next when she returns.

I remember things that were sold by the dozen were sold at the same price but in 10s instead of 12s 'because of decimalisation, innit'. 🙄

Sausage soda? What is tha ?

Not related to sparp, thank goodness.
(and if you don’t know what that is, be grateful)

It's basically a hot dog but with soda bread instead of a bap.

What I'd really like now is a chocolate gravy ring, but that's another story.

suddwn craving for saveloy dip

tries womanfully to stick to diet

Oh God, yes, sparp...

As for weights and measures, someone mentioned upthread to having a Marguerite Patten cookbook - not 1000 Favourite Recipes by any chance? Purchased in Smiths in the early 1990s iirc, and very good for timings for roast meat.

I was taught to cook and sew by DM, and have never succeeded in going metric. I have problems remembering numbers, and find lower ones easier than higher ones, so when I was last measuring out lengths of fabric for curtains, I could cope with 98" but would have lost the plot with whatever-huge-number-of-cm that would have been. 248.92, call it 249. Not a bloody hope. I'd have rounded to 2.5m and then wondered why I had too much left for the hem.

Oh, and congrats to @PastaAllaNorma - hope it can be provided quickly and you haven't got a massive lead time on the order.

Also, can someone (Fuzzy?) please keep tabs on Gillian during the move? She is still expanding Gerlinde's knowledge of English, and not in an entirely positive direction.

Shall I start the next thread?

New thread here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5501404-the-bluestocking-best-pub-on-the-internet

I have a Marguerite Patten cookbook- step-by-step I think?
It talks of lard and 'whipped up cooking fats' but has some great basics and some nice photos

£42 on amazon 😯

Oooh! Thanks for the new thread @EdithStourton

Grünhilde appears to be managing the gerbils well so far........

I can't believe how much cooking was done with lard in my younger days. I can feel my arteries hardening at the mere thought 😬

Thank you for the new thread, Edith, and Damson for the image of the reassuringly orderly removals.
I'm a bit concerned about the inn sign though - it looks like it's been hacked by the capybaras, and Gerlinde who hopes that no-one will notice that it actually says 'Bluesf*ing Pur'😦

Hmm, well Grünhilde may have the gerbils under control, but that clearly doesn't apply to the capybaras. She has been trying to boss them around and they are obviously taking their revenge. 😁

Not long after I married, I tried to make DH Aberdeen butteries [aka 'heart attack on a plate'] from a recipe in The People's Friend.

They were as hard as nails. I chucked them on the back green for the birds. The birds would not touch them.

I crept out under cover of darkness to retrieve them and chuck them in the bin.

As sold by CMOT Dibbler as "sossige inabun" but containing actual animal flesh.

Vegetarians like me can have an 'egg soda' instead of a sossige one

Explaining CMOT Dibbler to my son when he was a toddler the first time I read him "where's my cow" was challenging. To be honest, that went for most of the characters. The first few days the book took a very long time to read allowing for his questions.

I am so pleased that Grünhilde has things in hand. Very organised, as expected.

Many thanks to @EdithStourton for the next thread. Please fill up this one, first.