Darienne

I could use a recipe for spiced wafers please. Where is this recipe you were led to please. Thanks.

Yes, it's too bad. What else can one say? I actually wrote to Waterbridge yesterday. I'll post what they say when and if I get something.

Being far down on the scale of 'expert' when it comes to this sort of question...as I read your post I immediately settled on the second pan solution.

Just to close this topic off. I wrote to Wal-Mart and received two messages back and a phone call also. They offered to give me back the purchase price of the bars I had not used yet with the store receipt. I told the caller that I had figured out how to use the bars, using half the liquid, and did not want my money back. I had mentioned in posts above that the bars were now of poorer quality and that the gold cardboard was missing. To those you may now add a cheapening of the outer wrapper. It now rips very easily, as do some potato chip and nacho bags, whereas before it did not do this at all. That's it. I hope. What next can Waterbridge cheapen?

Had no idea of the Navel orange situation. Fascinating. Thanks Smithy

So many reassuring posts...I did feel a bit edgy about it. Now I don't.

You can't beat those Champion juicers. We are on our second one in 59 years.

Three years later and many tasteless oranges later also. About a month ago, Ed bought some oranges..'Midnight' from South Africa...and miracle of miracles they were so good, so tasty, so yummy, I could scarcely believe my mouth. Then last week, he bought another batch of the same. Tasteless, flat, the usual. I guess the good ones simply got in there one time by mistake. And now some lowly worker has been fired from his or her job for allowing tasty oranges to get through the regular practice and now all is normal again with dreadful oranges. Right. I am ranting.

Which, of course, brings to mind one of the cookie varieties we exchanged this afternoon at the Cookie Exchange...Moose Farts. Have to say that I think my Fannie Farmer Viennese Crescents were the most popular of all. Went home with nary a one. Not that I am a good baker, but rather that you cannot go wrong with butter, sugar, pecans, chocolate...shortbreads. Is there anyone who doesn't love them?

Fanny Farmer has them rolled in confectioner's sugar before baking and after. I can't remember where I read the accompanying text to the 'crescent' part of the name...the crescent shape represents the repelling of the Turkish army by the Viennese in 1529. I am just too lazy to make the crescents. I hope the Viennese will forgive me.

This cookie is the one in my photo with the chocolate squiggles on it (my take). My very favorite cookie. And yes it is the Russian Tea Cake and Mexican Wedding Cookie (Polvorones) and a dozen other names depending upon the country. It's in the Fanny Farmer cookbook as Viennese Crescents and other online websites credit her with the recipe. Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook lists it twice: Nut Crescents and Mexican Wedding Cookies. I make it with pecans and have never tried it with almonds. And it does melt in your mouth. Five dozen go to my Cookie Exchange...can't believe I am a Virgin Cookie Exchanger at the ripe old age of 77.

And here they are...and no, I am not much at the decorating part. Much better at the eating part. Hmmm...sorry the photo is a bit fuzzy. I'm not much of a photographer either. Much better at ice cream and toffee.

Recently on another topic, there's been a lot of discussion about that wonderful Greek dessert, Baklava https://www.wimp.com/baklava/

Thanks to Heidi for sending me to this thread. Wow! I am going to do this very thing. I just happen to have two boxes of Phyllo in the freezer and orange blossom water and the nuts and all. Such an interesting thread. Thanks all.

The sad face is for the pecans.

Vietnamese and Israeli cooking. A great combo. Welcome to the forum Bryan. Coming here was one of the best things I have ever done.

But what about this aluminum getting into the food issue?

I'm not much of a cookie maker either. Funny how so many of us can really make some or many different kinds of dishes...I'm a whiz at ice cream. Cookies? Not so much.

I used to use my Mother's pressure cooker pot for deep fat frying. I don't know what metal it was made from but it was really heavy. Now my friend has given me an aluminum pressure cooker and I thought I could use the pot the same way...except that it's aluminum and although heavier than your average aluminum pot (of which I have none), it's not as heavy as my Mother's pot was. The information I can find on deep fat frying in an aluminum pot is contradictory and I don't have a very good sense about it. Can I burn a hole in this pot with the heat? Will the aluminum get into the food? Who knows about this one, please.

You are flying, my dear. I am in my very first Christmas cookie exchange next Saturday. I'm making Fanny Farmer's Viennese Crescents with added chocolate squiggles. my favorite cookie. So here I am, Christmassy after all. Hard to believe....I have no photos of them in my albums.

The batter filled two loaf pans for me. 5 1/2 by 9 1/2. Oh, I doubled the nuts called for.

I'm not Arey, but I have much experience with this cake. Never misted it with booze...but what a good idea. It does cut better the second day and yes it freezes very well.

Where's the icon for super yummy - potato latkes?

Now that's something I would love. I remember buying pecans in NM and being so thrilled with how delicious they were. And there was a pecan tree in Moab near a store we frequented and I often just pulled the nuts off the tree. Yummy. Lucky you.

We have a friend from South Africa who works in Ontario now as a PSW (Personal Care Worker) and she receives from her elderly clients the most wonderful 'gifts'. Mostly things which they have never used or can use no longer. Wonderful things. Now our friend is not what you would call a dedicated cook so I have been the lucky recipient of many of these items. To whit, today's haul: a never-used pressure cooker and several stainless steel containers with locking tops. Could not believe the containers...looked them up on Amazon...was stunned by the prices...they start in the mid-$30.00 ...that's apiece. And truth be told, I am a container enthusiast. Added: The locking dishes are from Zebra Thailand. Printed on their bottoms.