Comments on: Advent: Top of the Tree http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/ Where our past is never very long ago Fri, 24 May 2013 02:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark B. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37445 Mark B. Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:15:59 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37445 But, Researcher, I don’t think Hamlet was posing a question of grammar when he asked “To be, or not to be?” So, what’ll it be? With or without? : )

As to the issue you raise, I remember my mother telling of making “Seven Minute Frosting” in which her father would do the honors–whipping/beating it by hand for seven long minutes.

Thirty minutes? Surely she must have enlisted one of the children to help out with that!

]]> By: Researcher http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37410 Researcher Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:03:11 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37410 Whoops. For our friendly local grammar police, should that be “as much as any of us is going to do”??

]]> By: Researcher http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37409 Researcher Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:01:26 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37409 That would be Coffinberry : ) . I imagine that looking at that recipe may as much as any of us are going to do, since it is so involved! I sometimes look in wonder at some recipes from my great grandmother and grandmother that involve stirring for lengthy periods of time, including a rice pudding that is stirred for half an hour, and wonder where they found the time in their busy schedules.

]]> By: Maurine Ward http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37387 Maurine Ward Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:11:46 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37387 I looked at the recipe for the Floating Island, thanks to researcher. I had never heard of this dessert.

]]> By: Mark B. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37382 Mark B. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:44:09 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37382 If only the author had had a sense of humor, the collision of those two boys would have caused a big “Kapow!”

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37347 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:55:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37347 May I just say that once again Researcher lives up to — nay, exceeds! — her nom de keyboard? (I mean, Coffinberry started it, but wow, Researcher!)

]]> By: Researcher http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37346 Researcher Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:51:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37346 Wow. Floating Island does sound like a lot of work with a lot of precise timing.

From a quick look at the Ellis Island site, it looks like Stefan Capowski was probably of Polish ancestry, maybe from Breslau. Here is a website about Polish cookies, and it looks like the most likely options are #11 Cinnamon Cookies (ciasteczka cynamonowe) or #15 Heavenly Stars (Gwiazdki z Nieba) or #16 Sugar Cookies (Amoniaczki, literally ammonia cakes, referring to the use of ammonium carbonate as the leavening agent.)

]]> By: Coffinberry http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37341 Coffinberry Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:24:02 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37341 Awwww. Sweet story.

And I had to go look up what Floating Island was. No wonder Mom was busy in the kitchen and maybe slightly cross. That sounds like a lot of work.

]]> By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/21/advent-top-of-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-37338 Carol Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:04:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9522#comment-37338 This one has a lot of Christmas spirit! Love it.

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