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Grizzly Bear Coins from Canada
They have some very nice collector coins. It is worth just viewing them.
blackspanielgallery, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
I love them too. We also get fresh produce, cheeses, preserves . . . and some pastries, but no pies.
Mira, on 08/22/2015
Make Homemade Hair Gel Curly Hair Girls Love
I've seen that, but I haven't tried it yet.
AbbyFitz, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
I love the food fayres and farmers' markets . Speciality cheeses, pies, sauces, jams and jellies.
Veronica, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
MY fault for not explaining fully. I do apologise. We use a mix of white and yellow fat ( lard and butter or margarine ) with more white than yellow , very cold from the fridge and not roughly handled, ice cold water from fridge . some people ...
Veronica, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
Oh, butter and margarine -- of course! :)
Mira, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
Frank and Veronica: Next time I visit London I'll go to a gastropub that serves game pies. I'll do a research online now that I know that that's where I can find them (as I'm not sure I'll be able to attend fairs, even though I'd like that very ...
Mira, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
So sorry Mira, Yellow fat would be butter or a very good quality hard cold margarine. I do think it is the lard that does it. Keep everything cold.
Veronica, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
Thank you, Veronica! It's the lard that makes it so good. But what exactly do you mean by yellow fat? Oil? Or is it something else (as well)?
Mira, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
Game Pie is always available at our food fayres and at certain gastro -pubs in England. It is too strong for me but many like it . I do sometimes make Venison Pie at New Year, Venison and Plum Pie usually.
We laugh about it being the "wrong " ...
Veronica, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
My mother's and mother in law's "wrong" recipe.
Both these remarkable ladies used self raising flour as we call it in the UK ,and then they used more white fat than yellow. They then used just less than 1 tbsp. of ice cold water than the ...
Veronica, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
I buy my game pies from farmers' markets. I cannot identify a particular restaurant that sells it . I like going to country shows, flower shows and specialist farmers' markets, and at these times and places there will be stalls selling ...
frankbeswick, on 08/22/2015
Montsechia vidalii: World-Oldest Flowering Plant From Northeast Spain
Wow! What a nice fossil!!!! And what a great book about flowers. It's on my list of books to read. Thank you for this article!
Mira, on 08/22/2015
Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners
And where is it served, Frank? If I visit the UK, where can I eat game pie?
Mira, on 08/22/2015
St. Nicholas Abbey: Jacobean Great House of St. Peter Parish, Barbados
I did wonder whether Benedict Cumberbatch was related to them :)
The story about how Abbey came to be incorporated in the name of this house is plausible but not convincing. But not knowing much about this house and the topic, I don't have other ...
Mira, on 08/22/2015