Pigs and Penny Buns: Retro Recipe Challenge #10

 
The Pigs and Balloons Puzzle (Lewis Carrol, Symbolic Logic)   
    (1) All, who neither dance on tight ropes nor eat penny-buns, are old.
   (2) Pigs, that are liable to giddiness, are treated with respect.
   (3) A wise balloonist takes an umbrella with him.
   (4) No one ought to lunch in public who looks ridiculous and eats [...]

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Festival of Lights (more like Festival of Heavy, Actually)

It’s Chanukkah.  And for us, Chanukkah means latkes.  And latkes mean The Argument.
In some homes, when latkes are served, applesauce is served with them.  Homemade applesauce, for example, all steamy and redolent of nutmeg and cinnamon.  Mmmm.  Applesauce.
In other homes, homes in which I might presently live, it is SICK AND WRONG to serve applesauce [...]

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Totoro, Totoro!

My very dear former colleague Karen–from whom I learned more than anyone else I have ever worked with, hands down–is now a proud grandmother.  So I’ve finally gotten a chance to try this completely irresistable bonnet from the incomparable Hello Yarn.  It worked up in a hurry, has some extra-nice shaping in the back, to [...]

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Another New Hat

Hat madness still prevails . . . this is my new hat, a cloche by MK Carroll which gave me a fair amount of trouble in getting the gauge just right (3 tries on the brim, 4 tries on the crown!), and which doesn’t look as nice in my leftover wool from the back of my [...]

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Chocolate Chip Cookies: A shocking confession

I just don’t like chocolate chip cookies.
I know, I know.  One more way in which I am un-American (that makes, what, 72 and counting?).  I hear that there are more chocolate chip cookies made in the U.S. than any other kind of cookie.  But I’d rather have no cookie than chocolate chip.
I like molasses spice.  [...]

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