Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving
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In article <3caa8119-5c4e-4cb1-98d8-e9a43a936209@googlegroups.com>,
nuny@bid.nes <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 4:15:03 PM UTC-7, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>
>> (One year. long ago, we made a Mock Dragon's Tail as chronicled
>> by Tolkien in _Farmer Giles of Ham_.  It was four feet long.
>> Never again, unless I acquire a dozen sturdy kitchen wretches to
>> do the baking and grinding for me.)
>
>http://ponderedinmyheart.typepad.com/pondered_in_my_heart/2016/04/a-treat-for-the-feast-mock-tail-for-st-george.html
>
>  The prayer at the end of the article sounds straight out of Monty Python.

Well, that's nice.  Ours, as I said, was four feet long and had
some complexities to it: the meat was made of fruitcake baked in
many disks of varying sizes, each with a hole in the middle.
When they were assembled, they were glued together with (IIRC)
plain white frosting, but the spinal column running through the
segments was marzipan; so were the bright green scales that covered
it.  We borrowed somebody's great shield to carry it in on.  There
were only about a hundred people at the feast, so there were lots
of leftovers for people to take home and dream of dragons on.

So it was not only dessert, it was a subtlety.  Subtletys are
hard work, so they don't happen very often (modulo the Mock
Boar's Head appearing every fall at the Boar's Hunt).  Karen
Anderson made an elaborate gingerbread castle one Twelfth Night,
with figures from _The Incomplete Enchanter_ welcoming Cambell
(gyronny of eight, sable and argent) to the castle.  (John W.
Campbell Jr. had just died.)  I did a ring-mold of forcemeat
once, covered with pastry (sculped by my artistic son) and filled
with saffron rice decorated with bits of candied fruit: the
dragon guarding his treasure.  And both my daughter and I, at our
respective weddings, had a cake of many small layers,
representing that medieval concept, knights attacking the Castle
of Love and ladies defending it with flowers.  (We got
professional bakers to do those.)

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-07 14:05 -0500
  Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 13:19 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-07 15:29 -0500
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 13:36 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:23 -0700
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:20 -0500
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:53 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:02 +0800
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:30 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-11 10:57 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 05:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:45 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 23:34 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 18:05 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 22:17 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-08 05:43 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 07:44 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-08 14:12 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 13:18 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 13:33 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:01 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 00:21 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:04 +0800
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:31 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:49 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 06:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 17:10 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:49 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 03:15 -0600
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 21:24 -0400
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:28 +0000
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 06:48 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:52 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 07:16 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 08:20 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:57 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 10:27 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 13:54 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:56 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 03:17 -0600
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:20 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-07 22:32 +0000
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:49 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 02:55 -0700
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:25 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:54 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 10:44 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 13:57 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-08 17:26 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 15:00 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-08 18:48 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 00:08 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 18:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 03:31 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 02:48 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:22 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 10:15 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 18:24 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 20:15 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 04:26 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 06:03 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-11 07:19 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 15:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 13:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 23:39 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 18:08 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-12 04:33 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-13 14:17 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 15:01 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-14 00:22 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 02:30 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-12 14:17 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 14:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 00:23 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 06:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 15:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 08:50 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 16:58 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-13 17:22 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 04:54 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-13 22:40 -0600
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-14 03:35 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 06:07 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-14 06:51 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 14:38 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving leif.roar@dimnakorr.com - 2016-06-14 10:07 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 16:30 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Jesper Lauridsen <rorschak@sorrystofanet.dk> - 2016-07-07 00:16 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 14:37 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 14:25 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 23:13 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-15 02:03 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 03:37 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-15 13:53 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-15 14:06 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-15 22:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-10 03:36 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-10 14:28 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 19:09 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:14 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 07:00 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:23 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 18:28 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 18:57 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 03:35 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 14:16 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-10 02:31 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:32 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 21:34 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 21:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2016-06-09 18:00 +1200
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 23:32 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:25 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-06-08 23:51 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 07:08 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:12 +0800
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:52 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 12:05 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:00 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:22 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-08 18:50 -0400
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 19:21 -0500
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 04:14 -0600
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-09 03:29 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 08:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-10 02:29 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:33 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-06-11 06:11 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 18:26 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 11:49 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 12:42 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 18:10 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-10 02:31 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 09:01 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-09 18:56 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 05:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-11 07:27 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-09 07:04 -0500
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:23 +0000
  Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-06-07 20:14 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 20:37 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 21:16 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:55 -0700

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