Apricots: I bought some fresh ones at the store yesterday... I bet they are full of all sorts of essential goodness that a growing fetus would demand, so I'm not surprised that pregnant women would crave them (makes more sense than pickles, I think). And they are the right shape and size for a certain part of the male anatomy...
Badger Ben: Hee! I'd like to see a Ben Jonson/Weebl (badger! badger!) crossover
Coney catcher: "Roaring Girl" just makes me smile
Doctorate: Sounds to me like you're doing the right thing.
Edward IV: I really like your icon!
Flapjacks: I'm not very well practiced at making them, either. But watching my father do it, he was insistant that the griddle be hot enough before he even put the butter down on it. He'd test it by dropping a drop of water on the griddle. It was the right temperature when the droplet "jumped."
In order to plead clergy, you didn't actually have to be literate--they would hand you a copy of the "Neck Verse" (it was part of a psalm, although I can't remember which one) and reciting it from memory was good enough. Of course, like the password to the local speakeasy, it was pretty rapidly disseminated.
I think of Edward IV as the Bill Clinton rather than the Jack Harkness of the 15th Century.
I believe you're right about the strictness of Orthodox observance of Lent, but pretty much all Lenten observances literally made a virtue out of necessity, because the stored food supplies were running out around then.
Any discussion of flapjacks must begin by defining terms, because I confess that I think of flapjacks as being thicker-than-crepe-type pancakes, in British parlance they're sort of like big oatmeal cookies.
My last paper of my undergraduate career was all about horseshit in Duchess of Malfi (seriously! and I am tempted to revisit it, it was good!) and a section was all about those dung-ripened apricocks. I wish I could remember what my claims were. Instead, I mostly remember sitting at my computer giggling, because I have never grown up.
Yay alphabet meme! I love the apricocks, and Ben the Pirate King.
Oh, but there are flapjacks in Pericles. And as it happens, that reference is also all about what to eat when. Fishermen pick up a shipwrecked Pericles, saying: "Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome."
I was thinking of the oaty British flapjack, but given the choice I'd much rather have pancakes. I don't know "The Shoemaker's Holiday", but it sounds as though they meant pancakes there, too? I don't know when the oat kind got invented, or when the British decided that was what the word meant.
Well, in the Shoemaker's Holiday they actually say "pancakes," so they do mean it. And this is what I get for not double-checking the text of Pericles. D'oh.
According to OED flapjack is used as synonymous with pancake in 1620
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Oooh, educational OED pancake goodness! Thank you. Not completely convinced by the Camping and Bushcraft recipe, but pleased to see that American breakfasts were already awesome in 1883.
Am I the only one worried by the idea of a Radiation Cookery book? It sounds like something from Protect and Survive. Perhaps, in 1942, they were trying to evoke Marie Curie-ish modernity?
I'm growing more fond of Ben Jonson myself, lately, though "cantankerous bastard" is right on the money. Someone once said that he wrote comedies because he had a theory about why comedies ought to be written, if I recall correctly.
And I keep asking myself, who the Hell is this guy to be offering moral instruction to me, with that cute little "T" on the thumb in front of his face as he's writing.
Do we know _which_ thumb would have been branded? I can't resist the idea of him holding that didactic quill with that very thumb...
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Badger Ben: Hee! I'd like to see a Ben Jonson/Weebl (badger! badger!) crossover
Coney catcher: "Roaring Girl" just makes me smile
Doctorate: Sounds to me like you're doing the right thing.
Edward IV: I really like your icon!
Flapjacks: I'm not very well practiced at making them, either. But watching my father do it, he was insistant that the griddle be hot enough before he even put the butter down on it. He'd test it by dropping a drop of water on the griddle. It was the right temperature when the droplet "jumped."
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SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE
...man, I totally wish I knew Flash now. ;)
Also, you can read The Roaring Girl here.
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Hooray! *bookmarks*
SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE
STAGE! AAH! IT'S A STAAAGE!!!
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I think of Edward IV as the Bill Clinton rather than the Jack Harkness of the 15th Century.
I believe you're right about the strictness of Orthodox observance of Lent, but pretty much all Lenten observances literally made a virtue out of necessity, because the stored food supplies were running out around then.
Any discussion of flapjacks must begin by defining terms, because I confess that I think of flapjacks as being thicker-than-crepe-type pancakes, in British parlance they're sort of like big oatmeal cookies.
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Oh, but there are flapjacks in Pericles. And as it happens, that reference is also all about what to eat when. Fishermen pick up a shipwrecked Pericles, saying: "Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome."
I was thinking of the oaty British flapjack, but given the choice I'd much rather have pancakes. I don't know "The Shoemaker's Holiday", but it sounds as though they meant pancakes there, too? I don't know when the oat kind got invented, or when the British decided that was what the word meant.
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According to OED flapjack is used as synonymous with pancake in 1620 ( ... )
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Curses!
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Am I the only one worried by the idea of a Radiation Cookery book? It sounds like something from Protect and Survive. Perhaps, in 1942, they were trying to evoke Marie Curie-ish modernity?
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And I keep asking myself, who the Hell is this guy to be offering moral instruction to me, with that cute little "T" on the thumb in front of his face as he's writing.
Do we know _which_ thumb would have been branded? I can't resist the idea of him holding that didactic quill with that very thumb...
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