Category: Hallothanksholinewyear
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Irene Lord’s Candied Fruit Cakes
This is my paternal grandmother’s fruit cake recipe. In contract with other fruit cakes which so many deign to be doorstops, this recipe is in a class by itself since it has none of the nasty doorstop fruitcake items like citron, citrus peels and the like. The doctor always makes 3 or 4 batches to…
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250 (More) Ways to Annoy Your Roommate
Make brown-bag lunches for your roommate every morning. Give them to him/her before s/he goes to class. Every time you enter the room, sit in a chair, lean back too far, and fall over backwards. Laugh hysterically for about ten minutes. Then, one day, repeat the falling-over exercise, but instead of laughing, get up, look…
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The new holiday
Last week, we stopped in the Radio Shack near our house to see if they had some doodad or other that was necessary for life. While the rest of the family went in search of the doodad, I was standing near the Virgin Mobile phone display; and noticed that apparently there is a new holiday…
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Can you name this animal?
Don’t know huh? It’s a “Dill-Doe.”via email from John Treworgy, Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:04:53 +0000
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‘Tis the season (Near Boston)
The supermarket has yams and canned pie filling on sale, Haverhill traffic is all jammed up ’cause of the Christmas Parade featuring Santa with a very seasonal Dixieland Band, every fire truck within a 25 mile radius and the Pequossette High School Marching Gnomes playing “The Devil went Down to Georgia” with a rousing brass…
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Christmas Fruitcake
1 cup of sugar4 large eggs2 cups dried fruit1 teaspoon baking soda1 teaspoon salt1 cup brown sugarlemon juicenuts1 gallon whiskeySample the whiskey to check for quality.Take a large bowl.Check the whiskey again to be sure it is of the highest quality.Pour one level cup and drink.Repeat.Turn on the electric mixer; beat 1 cup butter in…