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Last time I went to the Uki looked at gas (petrol) prices and thought how cheap they are. Then I realized it is now sold by the liter!!!!!!!!
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U R a B R A T!
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In 1948, The name Centigrade was changed to Celsius
to further confuse everyone.
It's not you Countrymouse.
We have jars of marshmallow creme here in the U.S. and easily make our fudge out of that without any softball stages. heh heh.
But thanks so much for your efforts to pass on that evil recipe!
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I've spent the last hour reading up on cookery - specifically methods of measuring ingredients - and OMG I've just discovered that the american cup is smaller than the canadian one. I suppose it makes sense, given that liquid measures here are (were) based on the imperial gallon vs the american gallon. It certainly explains why so many recipes gleaned off the internet don't seem right when I go to make them, cookbooks published here probably have been adjusted for the difference.

I found a whole discussion about "why" we refuse to learn to use a kitchen scale in north america. I think the answer is incredibly simple, the recipes aren't written that way. And the thought of converting old recipes... not gonna happen.
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Sorry, wasn't thinking - just wanted to get it down and out of my head! Gourmetsleuth-dot-com does a good quantities converter.

I'm part of the awkward in-between generation, CW - I can cope with metric, if I have to, but I think in imperial (250g of tuppenny rice, 250g of treacle doesn't quite have the same swing to it, somehow, does it?). As, I might add, do even most young Brits when it comes to their height and weight or distance from home or shoe size... But almost all recipes get published in just metric nowadays, there's probably an EU regulation about it. Cups I never did get the hang of properly, though.

I actually prefer weighing honey and syrup to using a volume measure, because so much of it clings to the spoon or cup that I'm never sure how much is going in the bowl and how much gets "rinsed off" (i.e. eaten) before I put the spoon in the dishwasher. It's easy, anyway - you just put your mixing bowl on the scales and keep adding.

But any system is better than none. There was the new bride trying to learn how to make lokshen noodles by watching her grandmother:

B - Now go slow, and I'll write it down.
G - Oo-kay. Ready? So you take your flour...
B - Flour, how much flour?
G - ??? As much as you'll want lokshen.
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I might add that although we are officially metric - have been for a very long time - there are some things that just never caught on, our milk may be sold by the litre but although butter says 454 grams, we all know it really equals 1 lb. In fact converting lbs to grams and kilos in almost anything is really an afterthought and gives me a headache.
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I've been doing a little web surfing trying to convert that recipe to north american measurements, the problem of course being that grams to cups is different depending on what you are measuring. Do you brits all honestly have to weigh every ingredient in every d*** recipe? And why oh why isn't golden syrup measured in mls, it is a liquid after all. Bah, my hips don't need that fudge anyway!
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Need an interpreter, CM.
100 g = 3 1/2 0z. butter by weight
550 g = 19.4 oz. Sugar by weight (need cups)
200 g. (by wt.) = 7 oz. (by liquid volume?) golden syrup 
350 ml. = 1 1/2 cups heavy cream (by liquid volume)
1/2 tsp.  (or grams) = 1/2 tsp. 
100° C (Celsius) = 212° F
116° C = 240° F
I cannot do this....
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Perfect Fudge (according to the Guardian newspaper online, who researched the subject exhaustively and from whom I shamelessly nicked this recipe)

100g butter
550g Demerara sugar
200g golden syrup
350ml double (heavy) cream
1tsp vanilla extract
¼-½ tsp sea salt flakes, according to taste

Using a medium-sized high-sided heavy-based pan, melt the butter, sugar, syrup and cream together, stirring until the sugar has dissolved.

Line a 9-10" square tin with greaseproof or non-stick paper.

Bring your ingredients to a simmer over medium-low heat without stirring. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until it reaches 100ºC, then stir more frequently until you get to soft ball/116ºC - make sure it doesn't catch.

Take off the heat, beat in the vanilla and salt, then continue beating the mixture until it thickens and loses its shine. Pour into the tin and leave it to cool.

After about an hour, mark it into squares then leave it to get cold. Best kept in the fridge after that.

This recipe is evil. Like the plot in The Ring, I think passing it on might be the only way to break free from it.
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Well, not exactly. Dh was the scooper. He misinferodetsd
(love my new word typo) what big bowl meant, so I went back, added a banana. Lol.
It aas sl good! (Also a new word typo), looks Norwegian or
Swedish, yah?
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Klondike ice cream sandwich
All is right with the world again - ha ha
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Great! An ice cream buddy! Tonights menu is a hard won quart of 31 Flavors, vanilla, with hot fudge drizzled over, served with 1/2 brownie.

What are you having?
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Good news, Send !

Just home from hoca and the house is still too hot so I'll join you in some ice cream
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Whew! An 870 acre brush fire threatened the area today
viewed from my front window, is now 50% contained.
Not much to burn after the fire met up with last year's Sand Fires burned out areas.
Going to have that huge bowl of ice cream now.
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Thanks everyone- Heard Alabama Shakes sing online, watched trailer of Hamstead-definitely want to see it!
Then, saw the water dancing gorilla at the Dallas zoo-
all accesible online.
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Wish I had the time and energy to go to the Rose Bowl - big music festival this weekend
I read Alabama Shakes is there
If you've never heard them look up the song, hold on
The lead vocalist sounds like Janis Joplin
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If you can find the video from the Dallas zoo if a gorilla dancing in a wading pool take the time to watch - pure joy
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CM
There's always Baywatch

I'm thinking of taking in a movie to escape the heat - John Lithgow in dinner with ... or maybe book of Henry or bossy underpants
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On the grounds that you can't say you don't like something if you've never tried it, and given that 'Hampstead', Diane Keaton's film, has been cruelly savaged by the critics but I'd still quite like to go to a movie this weekend, I have just read the ten column inch review of 'Transformers: The Last Knight' to see if it might be fun. I like a good pacy robot story as much as the next middle-aged female film-goer.

I know what the words mean. But...

I read it through again, slower and more attentively.

If you have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, and you're none too confident that the reviewer quite knows either - '... the film's peppy pre-teen heroine Izzy appears in the middle of a military sortie: Wahlberg's character asks her what on earth she's doing there, and she replies, with commendable honesty, "I don't know."' - what are the odds of being glad you bought a ticket?
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Very funny MsMadge, missed that bit of news, knock on wood.
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Hey Send,
Wash that you on the evening news out on the freeway on your motorcycle kicking a car and causing a multi car pile up?
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Exemplary silent dog wins a special chicken treat all to himself. Today all I heard was the creak of his wicker basket as I opened the front door - I think he was secretly glad to be left in peace in the kitchen, far too hot to go out. Hope this will be a new start!

Either that or he's lost his voice... :/
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CM, there are those toys you can fill with treats and as the dog moves the toy around, they get a treat. It is a way to keep them occupied when alone. Leave an old shirt you no longer wear in his bed or crate with your smell on it. When you return, give him a different treat.  
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Oh my word, lol!! MsMadge, that is funny.
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As I was wheeling mom out for a cup of tea after her shower this evening we passed a resident who for the most is always cheerful - mom didn't hear him say hello and he said under his breath - that one always gives me trouble - at least she didn't threaten to tie his wienie in a knot
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The radio's not a bad idea - it's on most of the time when I'm home, so it might just fool him. And any passing burglars, of course, so that's a plus too.

He gets a big treat to tide him over, he's got his basket, his bed (he likes to swap round), water, his box of toys and his special cuddly toy puppy; and he's confined to the kitchen in case of bathroom accidents (not that there've been any); and sometimes he's fine, but sometimes I get back and find that he's howled himself hoarse. I have to go to my volunteer job this afternoon and it's far, far too hot even to think of taking him in the car. I'll try the radio and cross my fingers.

But he's going to be twelve this year, a bit long in the tooth for new conditioning. Plus, it may not be so much a maladjustment in his training as bitter experience seared on his doggy memory. I've no idea if he was always a worry-wart, though, of course.

I have considered getting a cat to keep him company. But no - no more pets.

He would really like his own cat...🙄
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Well, if I were a dog, and you were torturing demons in the kitchen, I woukd be scared too.
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Sorry I missed your post addressed to me earlier CM.
There is a special technique to train your dog, found on the internet. Poor big baby, he misses you.
Have you tried crate training, a radio with talking instead
of music? Pet that big dog from me, hug him tight.
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CM, you can google some techniques to work with him to reduce his anxiety. It is a common problem with dogs.
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He has, Sharyn, and he's got good reason, too - he was abandoned by his first family, tied up and left at the side of the road at the age of about seven years. I still wonder what made them do such a wicked thing to such a good, loving dog. Eviction? Prison? Divorce? Bankruptcy? He'd been so well brought up and was so healthy that they'd obviously loved him a lot (until they did that to him, anyway). In less charitable moments I hope they still have nightmares about it, though.

But all the same! He's been with me for nearly five years now so you'd have thought he'd have figured out that I *always* come back! Plus I never, ever leave him on his own anywhere except in our house, apart from the Dog Park at the supermarket where there's CCTV and a bowl of water. He never seems to mind that so much, probably because of all the shoppers who stop and make a fuss of him. Maybe what freaks him out most is being anywhere there aren't people.
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