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  1. since this year's batch was probably the best i've made i'm going to put some notes for next year.

    i use alton brown's ratios (12 yolks, #1 sugar, pint and a half each whole milk and heavy cream, 1 cup each jamaican rum, bib evan williams, and cognac), with josh weissman's spice mix (tablespoon vanilla, 2 tsp cinnamon, heaping 1/2 teaspoon clove, 3+ tbsp ginger powder, 1 tbsp nutmeg). 

    i slowly added the sugar into the yolks which made for a very thick mixture, very stiff ribbons.  i whipped the cream a bit, not all the way to whipped cream but enough i could tell some air was getting into it.  think i dumped the eggs into the cream.  then blended hard with the hand mixer, added booze and spices, and into the jars. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Voldemort86 said:

    Not sure where else to ask this,  but I’d really like for Biden to catch up to Trump on judge appointments.  How are we doing on that front?  I wish we could end the blue slip policy or whatever. It’s holding up a bunch of nominations.

    biden is at 170 through the end of the year.  trump finished with 245.  obama, bush, and clinton had 334, 340, and 387, respectively.  elder bush had 197 and carter 262. carter was helped along by a 30% expansion in the number of district and appellate judges in 1978, and there were 72 positions added in 1990 (not sure how many the elder bush appointed).  

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  3. iirc there wasn't a whole lot to it, mostly cheese and squash, but i wasn't in the truck when sjj was putting it together for the houston charity events. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    Federal courts are moving to seize 31 parcels of land in Texas, Washington, Maryland, Colorado, and New Mexico, which Mello allegedly purchased using ill-gotten proceeds. Also sought for forfeiture are 78 personal cars, pickup trucks, and motorcycles, among them a 1978 Toyota FJ-40 Landcruiser, a 1954 Maserati 124 GT Racer, and numerous Ducati and Harley Davidson motorcycles.

    Over $10 million held in various bank accounts are also being eyed by the feds.

     

    https://www.guampdn.com/news/former-guam-resident-pleads-not-guilty-to-100m-fraud-charges/article_f95e24fc-9f01-11ee-a878-b782438e9100.html

    That mazerati is fucking hot

     

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  5. 3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    Would. Moms for Liberty, to steal!

    https://www.rawstory.com/keri-blair-moms-for-liberty/

    A right-wing Tennessee school board member backed by the Moms for Liberty group has been arrested on shoplifting charges.

    Keri Blair, who was elected in November 2022 following a campaign against tolerant "social agendas," is accused of stealing items from Target seven times between Nov. 25 and Dec. 20, reported WATN-TV.

    The 43-year-old Blair was booked Jan. 5 and charged with theft of property less than $1,000, and she was released on $7,500 bond.

    Police say Blair stole nearly $730 worth of merchandise by "skip-scanning" items at the store's self checkout.

    She resigned Wednesday from the Collierville school board, citing "family reasons."

    Shelby County school board races are nonpartisan, but Blair received contributions to her mostly self-financed campaign from Patricia Woodard, the treasurer of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, and mirrored that far-right group's complaints about educational materials that did not reflect a conservative social agenda.

     

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  6. On 1/9/2024 at 8:19 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I probably should've kept them but we moved a number of times and so I ended up keeping the Betty Crocker cookbook that belonged to my spouse's grandmother but let go of some real gems w/respect to wtf recipes. The regional and/or church cookbooks or the ones the natural gas companies used to hand out are rather enlightening when one considers historical events of the time period, food supply chains, locale, social aspirations, food science and nutrition, and so on.

    To continue your theme, here is something BC labels as "Mexican Ambrosia" circa 1956: Heap snowy shredded coconut over slice of fresh or drained canned pineapple on each dessert plate.

    I give the Betty (as we call it) some credit where credit is due, however. For the young person starting out on their own, it was a nice supplement to whatever one picked up at home--techniques and tested recipes that were very basic and easy to read. Not intimidating in the slightest. While THE Julia was an entertaining and educational cook, so too was the BC brand (aligned with the products mainly General Mills) as it morphed from a radio program to a television show and the pamplets and cookbooks. Maybe a little bit of hokey capitalism but for cooks in areas where certain kinds of ingredients were nonexistent or barely heard of, at least one could become a capable enough provider of meals.

    max miller answers the question:

     

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