As I said, I’m not totally up on basset history… but it’s possible that if the bassets had kibble, they also had human providers, even back in those days.
A dog who would cry over kibble doesn’t seem qualified to live “wild”.
Therefore, even if wild bassets were fairly sophisticated, they probably had human owners, ie masters and mistresses, even back in historical times…
and that’s his master, setting limits for Alexander.
…
As for that Ming Dynasty villain…
I really really want to say “Ming the Merciless“, of course.
But as he is a fictional villain from “Bucky Rogers”, a basset space serial, and we’re talking about real bassets… (right?)…
I’ll only note that the Ming Dynasty was full of warring factions, conquests, including competing emperor wannabes..
Father/son/cousin plots and takeovers abounded, complete with murderous neighboring villages harboring conflicting loyalties and ethnicities, even among supposedly purebred bassets… never mind the mixed breed vandals that roamed in packs.
For the title of nastiest, you can probably take your pick.
Recently was soooo happy that I had saved my kids Erector set so my granddaughter could use it for a robot project. That and a few scrap electronic parts that I’d saved for 40 years in my garage (you guys will understand), were the guts of the project that SHE put together (with a little help from Dad and Grandpa, teaching soldering, voltmeter, etc.).
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Absolutely love this one, Nighthawks! So funny and so clever!! Ghengis-confound It cracked me up!
It’s cream puff day today.
I changed the formatting a bit in the instructions because the puff and filling instructions were run together (I clearly separated them / also see “Notes from me:”).
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
” CREAM PUFFS “ Credited to: Mrs. Abram Samuels
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
3 eggs
Filling
2 cups milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs separated (my italics / See: “Notes from me:” below.)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (real not artificial)
PUFFS
Melt butter in saucepan, take from stove, blend with flour and salt. Return to stove, add
water gradually, stirring to a smooth paste. Remove from stove, beat in eggs one
by one. Drop from spoon to greased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. Place in
preheated oven, 400°, bake for 30 minutes. (Reduce to 350° during last 5 minutes of
baking.) Cool, slit sides, fill with custard or whipped cream. FILLING
To make filling, scald the milk. Sift together cornstarch, salt and sugar, add and blend.
Place in top of double boiler over hot water and cook until mixture thickens. Cool, add
egg yolks lightly beaten and vanilla. If you prefer, beat egg whites stiff and fold in, but
they can be omitted. Makes 10 or 12 large puffs.
Notes from me:
From the instructions above, the 4 eggs in the filling ingredients list should have been
listed as “separated.” The eggs for the puffs themselves are added whole.
Scalded milk is milk that has been heated to just below boiling.
“Melt butter in saucepan, take from stove, blend with flour and salt. Return to stove, add water gradually, stirring to a smooth paste.” Nononono!!!
Bring the liquids with fat and desired spices/salt to a boil, add flour at once, remove from the heat while stirring until the dough separates from the bottom. Let cool a bit and add the eggs then one by one until it forms “Spitzen”.
What is in your recipe is a bechamel sauce which is never going to thicken up to the desired consistency to make cream puffs. While the ingredients may be the same, it’s in the chemistry of how they are combined that make a HUGE difference.
Dogs having fun in mud. Leave the sound off is my suggestion (poorly chosen music, not George Carlin).
I left it as a “raw” U.R.L. because its site’s programming won’t let it post elsewhere as a video.
Open in a new window, or you’ll lose this page if you forget to back click.
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Rover is asking himself if he can jump that high.
Your toys have to be washed once in awhile. You will get them back, I’m sure.
Looks like a youngster. I feel sorry for him/her.
patience! patience!
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So cute!!
Aaargh! Let me shake off and dry out! I’m much bigger than I look here!
Who is talking to Alexander the Great Basset?
And just who is “the nasty”?
As I said, I’m not totally up on basset history… but it’s possible that if the bassets had kibble, they also had human providers, even back in those days.
A dog who would cry over kibble doesn’t seem qualified to live “wild”.
Therefore, even if wild bassets were fairly sophisticated, they probably had human owners, ie masters and mistresses, even back in historical times…
and that’s his master, setting limits for Alexander.
…
As for that Ming Dynasty villain…
I really really want to say “Ming the Merciless“, of course.
But as he is a fictional villain from “Bucky Rogers”, a basset space serial, and we’re talking about real bassets… (right?)…
I’ll only note that the Ming Dynasty was full of warring factions, conquests, including competing emperor wannabes..
Father/son/cousin plots and takeovers abounded, complete with murderous neighboring villages harboring conflicting loyalties and ethnicities, even among supposedly purebred bassets… never mind the mixed breed vandals that roamed in packs.
For the title of nastiest, you can probably take your pick.
You wouldn’t be smiling so big if you had a mirror. Cute, though.
Hey, it makes her look bigger, so that’s a PLUS!
It’s a unicorn!
shampoo time….
What a great picture!
The family that naps together, does laps together.
how comfy is this!
Watching the granddogs now. 2 goldens for a week or so. Total torture for us. {^¿^}
Recently was soooo happy that I had saved my kids Erector set so my granddaughter could use it for a robot project. That and a few scrap electronic parts that I’d saved for 40 years in my garage (you guys will understand), were the guts of the project that SHE put together (with a little help from Dad and Grandpa, teaching soldering, voltmeter, etc.).
Absolutely love this one, Nighthawks! So funny and so clever!! Ghengis-confound It cracked me up!
Infamous rather.
So you’re telling us that Michael Dorn based Worf on the Basset Ming dynasty?
uhhhh…..yes?
Wow… nice drawings!
Very helpful, too, as I’m afraid I’m not completely up on my basset history… an embarrassing lack, on my part.
…
Alexander was apparently not as great a basset as I thought… the crybaby!
Genghis Kahn-Found It‘s memory apparently lives on, in the phrase still used today, by dogparents, to scold their canine pets or offspring.
The things you can learn from historical comics.
It’s cream puff day today.
I changed the formatting a bit in the instructions because the puff and filling instructions were run together (I clearly separated them / also see “Notes from me:”).
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
” CREAM PUFFS “ Credited to: Mrs. Abram Samuels
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
3 eggs
Filling
2 cups milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs separated (my italics / See: “Notes from me:” below.)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (real not artificial)
PUFFS
Melt butter in saucepan, take from stove, blend with flour and salt. Return to stove, add
water gradually, stirring to a smooth paste. Remove from stove, beat in eggs one
by one. Drop from spoon to greased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. Place in
preheated oven, 400°, bake for 30 minutes. (Reduce to 350° during last 5 minutes of
baking.) Cool, slit sides, fill with custard or whipped cream.
FILLING
To make filling, scald the milk. Sift together cornstarch, salt and sugar, add and blend.
Place in top of double boiler over hot water and cook until mixture thickens. Cool, add
egg yolks lightly beaten and vanilla. If you prefer, beat egg whites stiff and fold in, but
they can be omitted. Makes 10 or 12 large puffs.
Notes from me:
From the instructions above, the 4 eggs in the filling ingredients list should have been
listed as “separated.” The eggs for the puffs themselves are added whole.
Scalded milk is milk that has been heated to just below boiling.
“Melt butter in saucepan, take from stove, blend with flour and salt. Return to stove, add water gradually, stirring to a smooth paste.”
Nononono!!!
Bring the liquids with fat and desired spices/salt to a boil, add flour at once, remove from the heat while stirring until the dough separates from the bottom. Let cool a bit and add the eggs then one by one until it forms “Spitzen”.
I’m with Tigressy on this one.
What is in your recipe is a bechamel sauce which is never going to thicken up to the desired consistency to make cream puffs. While the ingredients may be the same, it’s in the chemistry of how they are combined that make a HUGE difference.
The range map is a link to the Wikipedia article about the greater blue-eared starling.
Dogs having fun in mud. Leave the sound off is my suggestion (poorly chosen music, not George Carlin).
I left it as a “raw” U.R.L. because its site’s programming won’t let it post elsewhere as a video.
Open in a new window, or you’ll lose this page if you forget to back click.
https://fb.watch/hwaLm2hwXY/?mibextid=v7YzmG
loved today’s history lesson. the things you learn by reading the comics!
Comics!!! Nothing you see on C&C could be anything other than the truth! Blasphemer! {^¿^}
you ALWAYS crack me up!