dull knife wrote:
> If that's the case, then maybe I should not aspire to "move up" in the
> world by owning a mobile home?

By all means, no! Not 'til you've sold off the 14 bedroom spread first!


> I see the million-dollar rigs roll through, usually with an expensive
> car or SUV in tow. Good for them. My travel trailer has been lived in
> continuously for 25 32 years and, you know, they aren't meant to be
> lived in for so long. They literally fall apart after 20/25 years.
> Better off I am, than I was when I was living in my '67 Volkswagen bus
> (which I still drive, BTW).

How could one possibly be dissatisfied in a VW bus, Alice's Restaurant
and picking up garbage with implements of destruction and all.



>> How can clean up be a snap when your glucking the mixture up in a Viking
>> stand mixer? It would be more of a snap if you'd wash your hand and get
>> it into the mess and mix it up that way:
>
> But I'd still have a bowl to clean.
>
>> no scraping into another bowl
>> with be required,
>
> I scrape into another bowl because I make a second mix to rise o'nite.
> The first will be the recipe I have posted, the second will have a
> tablespoon of finely chopped fresh rosemary from my window planter. If
> I made two loaves without the mixer, I'd have to clean my glucky hands
> twice. With the mixer, I scrape out a ball of dough then add more
> ingredients without cleaning anything. Then the bowl and the
> attachment and the spatula get a rinse in warm water, which is okay
> because I'm not using anything in the recipe that's not water soluble.
> I don't know what you're imagining that I'm doing, but the cleanup, as
> I said, is a snap.

You wouldn't have to wash your hands between recipes if you'd lay it out
right at the start. Just jump from one to the other. Same with the bowl,
as long as you do the plain recipe first. See?



>> no 30 seconds of mixer time requiring 10 minutes of
>> mixer cleaning will be needed.
>
> Really, it's not that hard or time consuming that it puts me off.

Yabbut where does one stow a stand mixer on your teeny hovercraft? Or
does the lack of elbow room forbid vigorous arm movement, necessitating
a huge appliance?



>> Lots of emphasis on ten year old girls and how one might talk. Do you
>> just talk that way naturally,
>
> "Glucky" is one of my favorite words. I also say "geezo peezo" and
> "hokey smokes." However, I'm still struggling with "Who put the ram in
> ram-a-lam-a-ding dong" and why my cat walks all over me at 3 am.

The cat's getting back at your for considering moving to a mobile.

At least you don't say "easy peasy" and junk like that. Does this mean
you've worked out who put the dip in the dip-da-dip-da-dip?



>> or is there a need in you to talk down to
>> your audience,
>
> I don't talk down to people, I don't think. Is that what you got out
> of my attempt to spice up my recipe?
>
>> or do you have a glucky ten year old closeted away to
>> explain things to you?
>
> In this case (breadmaking), glucky is the perfect word.

For heavier yeast doughs, "smucky" and is a great descriptor.



>>> With a plastic/rubber scraper, fold the dough over on itself
>
>> Use your damn hand!!
>
> I don't know why when a spatula makes the folding-over so easy. No
> mess.
>
>> Lard?? On a nonstick pan? Why?
>
> Non sticks even better. Besides, non stick is not always non stick.
> Have you never had anything stick to a non stick pan? It's very simple
> to smear some lard on a pan. I use a paper towel folded up, then scoop
> out a little lard, then throw away the paper towel. Works for me. And
> the loaf never sticks. I simply tip the pan over and it drops out on
> the rack.
>
>> I suppose that, in your imagination, loads of folksy har-har ensues
>> here, before another communal round of hoo doggees of course.
>
> I try not to be too loose with my "hoo-wee-dawggies." I hope you're
> not too loose with your "folksy har-hars."

Yuk-fests are more my speed, but I'll take what I can get.