Subj : Re: except for alice
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Tue May 05 2020 00:08:26

-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 01-May-2020 18:35 <=-

 NB>> I've done a fair bit of baking

 MK> I do all the cooking and have for many, many, many decades now but
 MK> every attempt at baking on my part has been a dismal failure. 

I've not done all that well at cakes or pies... but cookies and bread
seemed to go well enough for me... :)

 NB>> Sounds like it was an interesting diversion

 MK> Yes it was (is?).  There is a farm on the Trans Canada highway between
 MK> Ladysmith and Duncan that has hazelnut trees.  They are around 15-20
 MK> feet tall and I've never noticed if they are producing any nuts but
 MK> given their size I assume they are.  The wild ones I seen in my youth,
 MK> usually when I went mushroom picking, were small bushes no more than
 MK> 10 feet at best.  Those were all on the flatlands and could be found
 MK> in depressions where there was more moisture and less plowing
 MK> happening farm-wise.  They were never in season whenever I encountered
 MK> them so I never tried them.  I am regretting that now. 

Can't do everything... Have you had the commercially grown hazelnuts...?

 NB>> Amazon seems to be a bit like Alice's Restaurant

 MK> There is something I haven't thought of in around 50 years.  I wonder
 MK> how she is doing these days. 

Probably passed on, like Woody and Arlo.... But lives on in memory and
song...  ;)

ttyl       neb

.... Never interrupt when you are being flattered!

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