2018 archive
Shoo-Fly Pie 0
This is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch desert. The name comes from the legend that, when you set the finished pie on the windowsill to cool, you must remain there shooing away the flies that swarm it.
This version comes from the Neffsville Mennonite Cookbook, which was compiled by the Women’s Missionary and Service Commission of said church, in Lancaster, Pa. There are three shoo-fly pies in the cookbook, but this one’s so good I haven’t bother to try the other two . . . .
I’ve had this cookbook for 35 or 40 years. Many years ago, when I worked for Amtrak, we held residential (meaning that the trainees stayed over for several days at the training site) training classes at various hotels in the Lancaster area, as Lancaster was central in the terms of Amtrak geography, convenient to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Chicago. Shoo-fly pie became one of my favorites.
When I was purchasing the frozen pie shells (making your own pie crust is not worth the effort), I mentioned that I was planning to bake shoo-fly pies. The lady behind me in the check out asked, “What’s in it?” I said, “Sugar.”
Frequently, if someone has never had it, he or she is told, “Imagine pecan pie without the pecans.” Frankly, that is a comparison of desperation, because there really isn’t anything else quite like it.
In Their Own Words 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., lets Trump supporters have their say.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
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The incident happened while the deputy was bowling, the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said.
Left unclear is whether the deputy was wearing his sidearm while making his approach.
The Grift in the Gift 0
Josh Marshall thinks he has figured out the “White House Gift Shop,” recently in the news in relation to the Trumpled North Korean summit “commemorative coin.”* A snippet:
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*AFAIC, the coin mostly commemorated hideous in design.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s no politeness like stray politeness.
A bullet struck Donna Warren, 51, before she could reach the store where police believe she intended to buy something. She collapsed in the parking lot, said Police Commissioner Thomas Carter.
The people who had been arguing then fled.
Just another day in NRA Paradise, where daily carnage is a given.
We are a society of stupid.
Flagging Interests 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, wonders just what was the NFL thinking?
Confusing: It’s not clear to me why the owners are so united behind a rule that passes the buck to individual teams to decide how or whether to discipline demonstrating players. It’s a recipe for placing owners in the middle of a public conflict between their athletes and fans. That’s no place they should want to be.
Meanwhile, El Jefe highlights the hypocrisy.
Stray Thought 0
Republicans no longer have a “political party.”
They have a hate group, and the sad truth is that hate sells.
Droning On 0
Of course this happened in Florida.