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rave on.... I love making bread... I imagine the person I want to hurt (usually a duhveloper) is what I am beating on as I knead the dough
>From: Henry Poras <Henry.Poras_at_ctp.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: why is short bread "short"? / Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Or
>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:22:10 -0800
>
>If I can remember back to what I read in a book by Bernard Clayton Jr. (if
>anyone is in to breads, pastries, ... get his books immediately. I can rave
>more later), pie crust can be made short or long. When making the crust,
>you
>mix the butter and flour, often using two knives to cut up the butter. The
>idea is to coat small pieces of butter with flour, not to mush it together.
>When baking the crust, there are little explosions of the butter kernals
>releasing water vapor which is held in by the flour. This is what gives you
>a flaky crust. Larger pieces of butter (a long crust) is flakier, more
>delicate, and more likely to get soggy than a short crust. I am assuming
>(for no real reason than I feel like it) that short bread is similar in
>this
>respect to short crust.
>
>I can check The Science of Food and Cooking when I get home and see if
>there
>is anything there.
>
>Henry
>
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>Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:57 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>I still like the elegant and decorous christmas holiday
>chocolate pastries they have in spain (catalunya) that are
>designed to look exactly like t*rds (feces), sometimes
>including exquisitely crafted little flies made from sugar
>crystals.
>
>Anyway, instead of sending any more "cultural enricment
>friday" stuff, I would instead like to ask why is short
>bread "short"?
>
>I can't RTFM since my old, worn out "Joy of Cooking" is at
>home, somewhere in a box in the garage... we just moved.
>
>thanks,
>ep
>
>On 29 Mar 2001, at 11:00, Ruth Gramolini wrote:
>
>...
>
> > I love shortbread. Bring it on!
> > Ruth
>
>
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