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Fudge recipe
Dec. 21st, 2007 10:12 amAs an aside, I hate AOL. Am posting from my parents computer in HH and they have AOL and Verizon DSL - both are incredibly slow, and annoying. Makes me appreciate earthlink and Time Warner's high speed connection - granted more expensive, but also a lot more efficient. [Left lap-top at home, too much to bring down and I have high-speed not wi-fi, so didn't make sense to lug it with me. If I come up with anything to write storywise - will do by long hand.]
Have discovered my mother's Fantasy Fudge recipe, which she wisely copied off the back of the old Marshmellow Fluff ages ago - sometime in the 80's. This is the same recipe I was discussing in an earlier post.
Fantasy Fudge
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup magarine
2/3 cup (5 1/3 fl onces can) evaporated milk
One 12 once package semi-swee chocolat chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar, magarine and milk in saucepan, bring to rolling boil stir constantly, 238 degrees candy therometer, remove from heat, stir in chocolate, marshmellow creme, nuts and vanilla. Beat. Pour into greased 13 x 9 inch pan.
Cool.
On the book front - still enjoying Blood and Iron - read or rather skimmed a negative review on it online. Actually it wasn't really a review so much as a critique. So I stopped reading really quickly because I sensed spoilage.
A "REVIEW" is meant to tell you just enough about the book to determine if you want to read it. What might turn you off or turn you on. IT is not meant to tell you whether the book works on a subjective level or what problems you had with it. The majority of reviews I've read and written online aren't reviews they are critiques. Which are really only useful to people who've read the books themselves or have no desire whatsoever to do so, or the author that wrote them and desires feedback. In other words if your review contains serious spoilers regarding the work in question - it is NOT a review, it is a critique. [Had a lengthy discussion with my father about this recently - he writes book reviews for the Hilton Head Island Magazine and told me that he makes an effort not to critique and/or analyze the book he is reviewing. Personally, I find critiques more interesting than reviews, but only if I've read the book or have no interest in reading it. Otherwise the critique - be it for film, book or play is bound to spoil me and make it difficult for me to enjoy it in my own way without the pollution of the other person's pov clouding the experience.]
Also from the get-go, I disagreed with the writer. Blood & Iron may be working for me partly because I'm familar with the mythology that the writer is basing her story upon. I studied Celtic mythology in undergrad and wrote my minor thesis on the Mabinogi - or a comparison of the Mabinogi with the Welsh oral tradition - circa 1987. Bear's book focuses more on the Irish take on these myths, but the two are pretty similar in character. We have Queen Medb as opposed to Queen Mab. And then there's my favorite character from the Mabinogi- Rhinannon, who I rarely see referenced in fantasy stories based on this mythos. Mostly people just talk about Arthur, Lancelot and Gwen.
She does too, but not quite in the same way. At any rate, I'm finding her use of ballads and music as magic and a means of evoking emotional response in characters who tend to hide it intriguing and very different from other works I've read in this particular nitch.
Have discovered my mother's Fantasy Fudge recipe, which she wisely copied off the back of the old Marshmellow Fluff ages ago - sometime in the 80's. This is the same recipe I was discussing in an earlier post.
Fantasy Fudge
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup magarine
2/3 cup (5 1/3 fl onces can) evaporated milk
One 12 once package semi-swee chocolat chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar, magarine and milk in saucepan, bring to rolling boil stir constantly, 238 degrees candy therometer, remove from heat, stir in chocolate, marshmellow creme, nuts and vanilla. Beat. Pour into greased 13 x 9 inch pan.
Cool.
On the book front - still enjoying Blood and Iron - read or rather skimmed a negative review on it online. Actually it wasn't really a review so much as a critique. So I stopped reading really quickly because I sensed spoilage.
A "REVIEW" is meant to tell you just enough about the book to determine if you want to read it. What might turn you off or turn you on. IT is not meant to tell you whether the book works on a subjective level or what problems you had with it. The majority of reviews I've read and written online aren't reviews they are critiques. Which are really only useful to people who've read the books themselves or have no desire whatsoever to do so, or the author that wrote them and desires feedback. In other words if your review contains serious spoilers regarding the work in question - it is NOT a review, it is a critique. [Had a lengthy discussion with my father about this recently - he writes book reviews for the Hilton Head Island Magazine and told me that he makes an effort not to critique and/or analyze the book he is reviewing. Personally, I find critiques more interesting than reviews, but only if I've read the book or have no interest in reading it. Otherwise the critique - be it for film, book or play is bound to spoil me and make it difficult for me to enjoy it in my own way without the pollution of the other person's pov clouding the experience.]
Also from the get-go, I disagreed with the writer. Blood & Iron may be working for me partly because I'm familar with the mythology that the writer is basing her story upon. I studied Celtic mythology in undergrad and wrote my minor thesis on the Mabinogi - or a comparison of the Mabinogi with the Welsh oral tradition - circa 1987. Bear's book focuses more on the Irish take on these myths, but the two are pretty similar in character. We have Queen Medb as opposed to Queen Mab. And then there's my favorite character from the Mabinogi- Rhinannon, who I rarely see referenced in fantasy stories based on this mythos. Mostly people just talk about Arthur, Lancelot and Gwen.
She does too, but not quite in the same way. At any rate, I'm finding her use of ballads and music as magic and a means of evoking emotional response in characters who tend to hide it intriguing and very different from other works I've read in this particular nitch.