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> "Peter-Lucas" > wrote:
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>> "Giusi" > wrote in
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>> > "Peter-Lucas" ha scritto nel messaggio > "Pandora"
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>> >>> You have speak of this pie and I thinck I would like it very much
>> >>> because I like lemon and I like meringue. Have you got a good recipe
>> >>> and a pic of it? TIA
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>> >> Pandora, this one is *fantastic*. Very simple recipe, no weird
>> >> ingredients, and very easy to make.
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>> >
>> > This may very well be a lovely pie, but it is not what I meant when
>> > I called it my favorite.
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>> When did you say that??
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>> > It's way more elaborate and not at all the
>> > homey favorite I love.
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>> Then don't make it. I was posting this for Pandora, not you.
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> You're getting prickly again, Peter.
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> When you post anything that the whole world can *see*, whether it was
> directed to the world at large or to a specific individual, you pretty
> much have to expect that you've opened yourself to commentary from
> anyone with a keyboard and web access.
>
> Critiquing recipes (often solicited); e.g., "I might have done thus and
> such instead; it would have produced a different sort of whatever," and
> criticizing recipes (unsolicited); e.g., "I can't imagine why anyone
> with half a brain would use this or that in a recipe for thus and such;
> it simply has no place < and besides, I don't like it" happens here all
> the time. You know that.
>
> Sometimes the latter is done good-naturedly (I'm thinking of boiled dirt
> chunks), sometimes not so much. And often the nuances and inflections
> of spoken conversation do not translate well to paper, leading to some
> to get their panties and their chute straps all knotted up for no
> reason. (That'd be you.)
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>> > Plus, it has a sweet crust, which to me removes the magic.
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>> OIYO.
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> What does OIYO mean?
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>> >
>> > I don't even know what icing sugar mixture is meant to be!
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>> Google it. I did. It took all of about 2 seconds.
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>> zucchero a velo
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>> http://dictionary.reverso.net/englis.../icing%20sugar
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> (That's for icing sugar, not icing sugar mixture.)
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>> > Icing sugar is usually sold in tiny envelopes here,
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>> First you say you don't know what icing sugar is "meant to be" and then
>> you say it's sold in envelopes there. Make up your mind!!
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> No, she said she does know what "icing sugar mixture" is meant to be.
> To me, it means icing sugar mixed with something else. Then the
> instructions refer to it only as icing sugar when it is used in the
> recipe. I think it's a bit confusing, too.
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>> > Caster sugar does not exist AFAIK.
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>> zucchero semolato
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>> http://dictionary.reverso.net/englis...caster%20sugar
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> And if you click on the " zucchero semolato" in the translation (it's a
> live link), it says that zucchero semolato is granulated sugar, that
> zucchero in polvere is caster sugar and zucchero a velo is icing sugar.
> Interesting. Those rascals.
>
> My guess is that Judith has a better grasp of what's available there
> than you do. I could be wrong.
>
> Since the link was for Pandora, maybe you should have emailed it to
> Pandora instead of posting it.
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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Oh! Doesn't matter. I have perfectly understand the recipe. We will see when
I'll make it. Perhaps during these days. I 'll tell you. I must try also
Wayne's a zbob' recipe.
cheers
Pandora