I so enjoyed your write-up, Susan….it brought back so many memories of the first time I saw Dogspell. That seems like about a thousand years ago (and yet, you can still remember all the words to “Nap by Nap”!….amazing!)
As both sheep and mint are mentioned in the human book of Matthew, here’s a recipe.
From:
The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
By: Ruth Hutchinson
Illustrated by: Tim Palmer
Published by: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK 1958
Earlier edition published as: The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book (1948)
Library of Congress catalog card number 58-8873
ROAST LAMB WITH MINT SAUCE Credited to: Mrs. Edward S. Shepherd
1 6-pound leg of lamb
Flour
Fat
1cup cold water
Butter
Salt and pepper
Dredge the lamb with a little flour, place in pan with hot fat, and sear quickly.
Roast it in a 350° oven, adding the cold water to the roasting pan and basting
frequently with butter, as lamb needs fat. Roast 3 hours, season toward the end of
the roasting, and serve accompanied by mint sauce:
1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup water
Chop the mint and mix with the vinegar. Boil the sugar and water for a few
minutes, to make a syrup. Add the mint and vinegar.
Notes from me:
That mint sauce sounds really good! I’ll be using it for lamb chops now that I’ve discovered its existence; but I’ll keep a very close eye on the boiling water and brown sugar. I very much doubt it needs “a few minutes” to thicken to syrup.
I’m glad you like this version, at least, Plods! Thanks.
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Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.
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Now you’re singing my kind of musical…. It was the first stage play our kids did in High School.. They were part of the stage crew and had a blast working on it.
As always, superb job with the poster, Stel. Loved the music titles!
I can’t help thinking I see Hitchdog in the drawing.. TeeHee.
I didn’t mean to post that red-faced cussing emoji.
and that taught me that one emojis are chosen and clicked on
there’s no turning back—no editing, no deleting
I can’t believe I did the same thing as NH, and accidentally clicked on that ugly red-faced emoji.
Count me in as another one who would love to see those damned things GONE for good!!
Sorry, JP Steve….that was totally unintentional. I was just looking for the meaning behind that one (which the chart IDs as “face_with symbols”, which is kind of stupid anyway).
Hey. NH. Somebody put a whole mess of those dumb emojis on my last post, and I’m not liking it! Is there an individual “opt out” on that function? Because I sure would love to opt out.
Congratulations. I hope your reactions to them are few and mild. Just about everyone that I know says the Pfizer vaccines seem to have a good track record with reactions.
Second Pfizer – I had chills, then headache, followed by muscle aches – at bedtime, of course. Daughter felt nauseous. Son and hubby nada! I’ve heard that females tend to have more side effects, so you should be fine, JP Steve.
Glad to hear you got your appt.! Appts. were difficult to schedule in Massachusetts, as well, but after many nights of getting up in the wee hours to look for one, I was finally lucky, as well. My 2nd shot is 4/18.
Mine was a twofer. first day 71 yr olds (like me) could book an appointment and the grand opening of the province-wide on-line booking system at 8 am. I was on line at 7:45 and had my appointment booked by 8:20.
Got my first dose of Pfizer through the state at the Hynes this past Sunday. Scheduled to get shot again on Saturday the 24th. Sore arm for about 36 hours, mild nausea for about 18.
The last time I hugged a chicken (it was more of a tackle than a hug) it was followed by my dad wringing said chicken’s neck and chopping off its head.
No, fortunately. I didn’t word that very well. My daughter was in FFA and raised pigs. We had the butcher out to the house when it was time to do them in. My son, 5 years younger than her, watched some of it. He hasn’t eaten ham or any part of a pig since then…..not even bacon!!
Ooooh, you made me look it up. Sounds tasty, although I’d have to cut out any chile and possibly half the onion to accommodate my lady’s delicate digestive tract. Not a problem, I’m always having to adapt and overcome such minor difficulties. Minor things like reducing milk production for those who are lactating, or dealing with those who are allergic to beef or garlic, or whatever challenge the day brings. It keeps things interesting. {^¿^}
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I’m not sure the aaarooos would do these songs justice, just sayin. I’ve never known a basset who could hit a note, first time, every time.
Ahh…but you should hear them sing “All for the basset…”
Perfection.
Nice one, Stel!
Thanks, Dennis!
There’s a face only a mother could love. Does that creature have three lips?
No…there are not 3 lips. Check it out:
I did edit the featured picture up above. Hope it’s easier to NOT see 3 lips! LOL
I think Dennis means the ugly green fish, not your basset!
At least, I know I did when I thumbed up his comment.
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It’s not obvious that it’s even a fish, so he called it a creature…
And its bottom jaw seems to have a double lip.
Susan Sunshine is exactly right. I refer to the fish. Anyone could love a basset face.
Oops… I meant Liverlips, of course.
Sorry… I lost track for a moment, cos Dennis left the comment just before yours.
Ok……NOW, I see it! It didn’t occur to me before that you were talking about the fish!! Sorry.
Oh, well…….I wanted to edit the Basset J.C. anyway, so at least that got done.
Thank you both, Liverlips and Susan! I appreciate that clarification!!
Well, since you so kindly clarified the basset hound…
I went ahead and clarified the fish.
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Here she is in her Dogspell makeup…
You did know she had a role in it, right?
Why else would her picture be up there?
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I mean, we don’t fill up our posts with totally unrelated stuff, right?
…right?
Oooh… a revival of Dogspell! I loved Dogspell!
I wasn’t supposed to… being, you know, Jewish and all…
but I can’t claim that I’m observant anyway… and who can help loving “Dogspell”?
I saw it live, in San Francisco, in an early touring company production….
and a couple of years later, the movie, as well…
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“Nap by Nap” ….. besides being so descriptive of a dog’s reality….
it’s a beautiful song…
I remember it well….
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la da dah…. ♪ ♪ ♫ la da dah…….. how does it go?
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“Nap by nap,
Nap by nap… ♪ ♪ ♫
Oh dear Dog….
Three things I yap…..
♪ ♪ ♫
To see thee more clearly
Love kibble more dearly ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫
Follow rabbits more nearly
Nap by nap… ♪ ♪ ♫”
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sigh……
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The cast looks so wide-eyed and devoted, as they paint themselves up with pink cheeks and bits of clown makeup…
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Oh…. and Victor Guard-dog…. wow…
I’d almost forgotten…
Nowadays he plays tough guys and smooth talkers….
clean-shaven and well dressed….
Hard to connect that image to when he was a sweetly hippie-ish, curly-eared, basset-puppy Jesus.
You have such a great singing voice, Susan! You should go on the stage.
Yea, I’ve heard that one before…
LOL
I keep telling her that, ML!
I so enjoyed your write-up, Susan….it brought back so many memories of the first time I saw Dogspell. That seems like about a thousand years ago (and yet, you can still remember all the words to “Nap by Nap”!….amazing!)
I just knew you might remember it!
I was a long time ago!
As both sheep and mint are mentioned in the human book of Matthew, here’s a recipe.
From:
The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
By: Ruth Hutchinson
Illustrated by: Tim Palmer
Published by: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK 1958
Earlier edition published as: The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book (1948)
Library of Congress catalog card number 58-8873
ROAST LAMB WITH MINT SAUCE Credited to: Mrs. Edward S. Shepherd
1 6-pound leg of lamb
Flour
Fat
1cup cold water
Butter
Salt and pepper
Dredge the lamb with a little flour, place in pan with hot fat, and sear quickly.
Roast it in a 350° oven, adding the cold water to the roasting pan and basting
frequently with butter, as lamb needs fat. Roast 3 hours, season toward the end of
the roasting, and serve accompanied by mint sauce:
1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup water
Chop the mint and mix with the vinegar. Boil the sugar and water for a few
minutes, to make a syrup. Add the mint and vinegar.
Notes from me:
That mint sauce sounds really good! I’ll be using it for lamb chops now that I’ve discovered its existence; but I’ll keep a very close eye on the boiling water and brown sugar. I very much doubt it needs “a few minutes” to thicken to syrup.
Good idea! Always plenty of mint in the garden. A real thug.
Well, so far, it looks like I’m the only one who thinks it’s amusing that Mrs. Edward S. Shepherd came up with a Roast Lamb recipe.
I’m laughing on the inside.
🙂 Broadway musicals must be a theme today.
Here’s “Broom Hilda.”
Holy Pentecost, Batbasset! That’s sacribasset!
whooooosh!
(my first woosh in the new site!)
Good morning, Cleomaniacs! Q Date: 389.98862.02 T – 8D 3H 17M
Day by Day was one of my favs in 1972. Based my going to the play on that. Turns out? Not really a phan.
But you wanna know what I am a phan of?? DOGSPELL! Even the poster is better than the original. Out of the park again.
25 – 30 degrees above ‘normal’ today. I’m going outside later to see how much I can sweat.
Y’all keep kewl. (((((HUGS)))))
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I’m glad you like this version, at least, Plods! Thanks.
Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.
Now you’re singing my kind of musical…. It was the first stage play our kids did in High School.. They were part of the stage crew and had a blast working on it.
As always, superb job with the poster, Stel. Loved the music titles!
I can’t help thinking I see Hitchdog in the drawing.. TeeHee.
Hmm……I think Laughbasset and Hitchdog have a bit more in common than J.C. Dog, but the jowls are in the eye of the beholder!
LOL
Take it for what it is. Phunny
Totally understand!
I finally got an appointment! First vaccine a week Thursday!
I didn’t mean to post that red-faced cussing emoji.
and that taught me that one emojis are chosen and clicked on
there’s no turning back—no editing, no deleting
I’ve noticed that!
Personally, I wish you’d get rid of them.
I can hardly see them, so i rarely know what the posted ones mean anyway, and clicking the wrong thing when giving one is inevitable.
They confuse the issue, when we already have thumbs,
and like the early set of those you eliminated, the main issue to me is that they’re anonymous.
FWIW, I can right-click an emoji and “view image” to get a screen filling image of what was sent.
Me too… but a pain if there are several… especially on my slow internet….
it can take forever to reopen the page for each one, even though it theoretically hasn’t left.
Anyway, anonymity is a bigger problem.
Yeah, I knew that wasn’t going to be a fix. I don’t like the anonymity either. Notice I’ve stopped using them since your post…
I can’t believe I did the same thing as NH, and accidentally clicked on that ugly red-faced emoji.
Count me in as another one who would love to see those damned things GONE for good!!
Sorry, JP Steve….that was totally unintentional. I was just looking for the meaning behind that one (which the chart IDs as “face_with symbols”, which is kind of stupid anyway).
yeah well, too bad for you guys this isn’t a democracy.
and even if it was , you’re not allowed to scream voter fraud
Hey. NH. Somebody put a whole mess of those dumb emojis on my last post, and I’m not liking it! Is there an individual “opt out” on that function? Because I sure would love to opt out.
Here is a larger version of “Face with Symbols”
Rotifer has had some of these as “favorite parts”™
Yay!
Congratulations. I hope your reactions to them are few and mild. Just about everyone that I know says the Pfizer vaccines seem to have a good track record with reactions.
Yep, absolutely no reaction with second shot, was not even sore like I was for the first one, ask for a lollipop, LOL
that matched my experience with the two shots
Second Pfizer – I had chills, then headache, followed by muscle aches – at bedtime, of course. Daughter felt nauseous. Son and hubby nada! I’ve heard that females tend to have more side effects, so you should be fine, JP Steve.
Glad to hear you got your appt.! Appts. were difficult to schedule in Massachusetts, as well, but after many nights of getting up in the wee hours to look for one, I was finally lucky, as well. My 2nd shot is 4/18.
Mine was a twofer. first day 71 yr olds (like me) could book an appointment and the grand opening of the province-wide on-line booking system at 8 am. I was on line at 7:45 and had my appointment booked by 8:20.
Got my first dose of Pfizer through the state at the Hynes this past Sunday. Scheduled to get shot again on Saturday the 24th. Sore arm for about 36 hours, mild nausea for about 18.
if it’s not National Hug a Chicken day,
then it should be
The last time I hugged a chicken (it was more of a tackle than a hug) it was followed by my dad wringing said chicken’s neck and chopping off its head.
Ahhhh ~ happy memories.
It wasn’t so happy for the chicken.
I wrote that facetiously. It wouldn’t be happy for me. My husband’s mom used to do that when he was little.
Facetiously — that’s how I read it!
Not to HIM, I hope.
No, fortunately. I didn’t word that very well. My daughter was in FFA and raised pigs. We had the butcher out to the house when it was time to do them in. My son, 5 years younger than her, watched some of it. He hasn’t eaten ham or any part of a pig since then…..not even bacon!!
your dad must have really been mad at that chicken
He hated that chicken more than Susan hates your emojis.
Impossible! Impossible, I say!
Doing my best Foghorn Leghorn here…
But it loses something in the posting.
I love to quote Foghorn Leghorn. Funny!
I really could have gone on forever without that image stuck in my head, R.T.
Not to mention that my chicken just started to drive for Uber, so she’s earning her keep now.
Building a tidy nest egg, no doubt.
That chicken’s a keeper. She’s got some mad skillz.
and if you don’t have a chicken to hug,
you can substitute by hugging a pack of boneless chicken thighs in the grocery store
This is even better:
There’s no emoji for a standing ovation. And I thought Stel Bel’s chicken had mad skillz.
Just don’t let anyone see you.
Sorry, I’m a breast man myself!
Hugging those boneless thighs isn’t gonna cut it. I’m gonna simmer them in a nice Masala cooking sauce with some veggies.
Ooooh, you made me look it up. Sounds tasty, although I’d have to cut out any chile and possibly half the onion to accommodate my lady’s delicate digestive tract. Not a problem, I’m always having to adapt and overcome such minor difficulties. Minor things like reducing milk production for those who are lactating, or dealing with those who are allergic to beef or garlic, or whatever challenge the day brings. It keeps things interesting. {^¿^}
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