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As its titanic anniversary time I'm going to I'm going to recreate some recipes served aboard the titanic this week.

Today i made a few 3rd class menu items-- currant buns and rice soup. I saw currant buns on this website and used tasting history with max miller's recipe for rice soup.

The rice soup was basically rice gruel but I liked it. Nothing fancy! Not much to this recipe so the cayenne and mace really go a long way, but still it's hard to have bad soup. I liked it enough i just had a big bowl by itself.

But as i understand it it would've been a first course option on the last day before the sinking.

I made a gf version of the currant buns--they were sweet and still yeasted. Again nothing fancy but a totally enjoyable.

If you've ever looked at any of the 1st class menu items you know the 3rd class menu is much much simpler but honestly there's a lot there and I'd be totally happy with the 3rd class food.

BUT as the week goes on I'm gonna try some fancier stuff.

Today I did some 2nd class menu items

I made "cocoanut sandwiches" which are delightful sandwich cookies i would eat any time.

Big success for a coconut fan like me. There was nothing in this recipe that threw me for a loop except nutmeg, but that was nice.

I also made roasted turkey (i did 2 breasts and some drumsticks bc getting a whole unfrozen turkey outside of thanksgiving is um $$) and cranberry sauce and puréed turnips.

The pureed turnips were, um, not my fave lol. The recipe for this and the cookies both is from downton abbey cooks, and I'm unsure of the historical veracity. But it had honey and cardamom which sounded interesting but didn't really compete against the turnip.

No one who's tried it has liked it yet lol. I've had reactions from neutral but wouldn't choose it to weird to spitting it out.

I had to do a bit of research to find a gilded age recipe for cranberry sauce to see if it would even be substantially different. And i found one from 1905 that is basically familiar with the exception of a substantial amount of vinegar.

I liked it a lot! I didn't make as much as listed and i think proportionally used less vinegar (apple cider vinegar) but it added a fun tang. But I'm a huge cranberry fan too.

And the roast turkey is just roast turkey. Altho in trying to nod to baking techniques of the day i used more fresh herbs instead of like a dry rub, which is probably what I'd do on my own. Herbs were thyme, sage, rosemary, and brushed with butter.

I roasted the turnips under the turkey, with celery and fennel (bc i can't have onions and fennel is my main substitute) and and carrots. The carrots were great and maybe the turnips would have been better plain than they were puréed.

Continuing this thing I'm doing now! I returned to tasting history with max miller and recreated his choice for the fanciest of crew meals the captain and purser would have eaten-- sirloin steak with chateau potatoes and bernaise sauce.

The château potatoes were definitely on the menus elsewhere for 1st class and maybe even 2nd. But they're potatoes carved down to a sort of olive shape and size, fried in clarified butter.

Its a pain in the ass and i didn't even try to do a better job. They're fucking delicious but just get teeny tiny baby potats for the same frying experience.

The big complex part, if you're really confident in your steak and potato cooking abilities i guess, is the bernaise sauce.

Which is just like a hollandaise sauce with an herb reduction in white wine and tarragon vinegar. And I'm a freak who makes hollandaise sauce sometimes so this didn't really scare me as much as i thought it would.

If you're not familiar with tarragon its a bit like anise but way less potent which makes it very preferable to me.

Just getting it all done at the same time is the hardest part but it was goddamn delicious. A+++ check out the tasting history for details about the crew which were really interesting. If i wanted to make something more representative of the crew experience tho, it'd probably just be more like the 3rd class menu but i wanted to make things I've never tried before.

And the finale of this little cooking adventure, 1st class recipes from the titanic's final night

I made poached salmon with mousseline sauce and creamed carrots and oysters a la russe, with champagne and sorbet.

I enlisted my sister's help in making and eating this, and in watching titanic 1997

Went to the fresh meat market near my sisters for the salmon and oysters which was an excellent choice. They were very good.

I undercooked the salmon a bit but I've never poached fish before so ☹️ i did recently fry salmon in oregon perfectly tho so I'm gonna blame poaching and not me. The salmon was still tasty tho bc salmon just is and I'd rather undercook salmon than over cook it.

Also salmon's best friend is mousseline sauce, everyone. Holy cow. It's like dilly extra creamy hollandaise. If you know how hollndaise sauce is made, do yourself a favor and make salmon with mousseline sauce. You don't even need to poach it.

As a side for this i picked creamed carrots which were surprisingly cinnamon heavy and surprisingly good.

And oysters a la rousse was an appetizer on the titanic but we had them last. The a la rousse is a relish with tomato, vodka, lemon juice, and horseradish and it is dope. I know oysters are divisive but this tomato relish would be good on any seafood i think.

And i just didn't have the energy in me to make the actual 1st class champagne punch, punch romaine, since you make a champagne sorbet which sounds great but. Like. Ive done so much already.

So we had some cheap ass korbel champagne with a store bought raspberry sorbet and it fucked.

Anyway, i rewatched titanic for like the 30th time and still cried. My heart will ho on etc. What a great night.

Like what is trump gonna do worse? Make snarky tweets?

Comments in the vein of OP's also show a very little interest in how even today, not as president, Trump's 'snarky tweets' lead to almost any individual citizen he trashes being stalked, doxxed, and threatened by his followers. (And haven't considered how he might go beyond snarky tweets considering he once made a big deal out of how as President it was 'legal for him' to have enemies assassinated.)

Also it shows a very short memory as to how his 'snarky tweets' last time he was president, about how BLM protesters were terrorist thugs and putting down other minorities also led to increasing pushback and violence against them by white nationalists who figured he was giving them a wink, nod, and get out of jail free card.

When someone has followers like Trump's, 'snarky tweets' are not just harmless internet trolling, and when he is in a position of power it is a bigger problem.

Hukin & Heath, Toast rack, 1927. Silver. England. Via artsmia

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I LOVE this!

putting butter on toasted bread is so good has anyone else tried this shit

intersring dish. drop the recipe

Im so glad you asked! In my family, we’re a little different. For generations, butter has been a staple ingredient in all of our recipes. It all started in 1943 when my great grandfather Jo discovered cows. As a youngster he used to churn milk while watching the family of mourning doves on the neighbors land fight over the plumpest worms each morning. The doves feeding their children inspired grandpa Jo so much throughout the years that an idea sparked in his head. He then started the family business we all know as Bo’s kitchen (changed it to Bo for the letter B from butter.)

One day a young woman named Margeryne came into our shop and excitedly declared she also enjoyed making food in the shape of a rectangle. Upon hearing this grandpa Jo almost called his lawyer to file a lawsuit, assuming if anyone else found a way to make food in the shape of a rectangle it must be a stolen copy of our one-of-a-kind melt-in-your-mouth butter recipe. But he stopped dead in his tracks when he heard her call this rectangular food a “Loaf.” We stared in awe at her creation for what felt like hours. That’s when I tried bread for the very first time. It was shockingly delicious and wonderfully fluffy.

But, even then, I had never thought about putting butter on top of bread before. In this recipe I will show you how two rectangular foods combine to make something even greater, something that will make you say Mmmmm! like you’ve never said it before.

Ingredients:

- butter

- bread

Directions:

Toast 2 slices of bread, spread a pad of butter on the tops of each, serve warm.

2 stars. it was terrible. idk what went wrong, i replaced the bread with a brick and the butter for cement paste to cut back on carbs (im on the curbs diet) and it just tasted like rocks. WTF. 😡😡

There is absolutely nothing you could make up about American politics. Imagination is dead. It's useless.

my favorite thing about Corporal Carrot is that he’s a romantic hero plopped right in the middle of the greediest cesspit of a chaotic neutral city ever to debase the pages of literature, and yet instead of having his shining idealism destroyed by an uncaring reality, he makes reality embarrassedly put down the weapons and agree to make nice, and then mutter an awkward “Good morning” whenever it passes him on the street.

And conversely, Vimes is a noir hero in a noir setting (Ankh-Morpork) but instead of an acceptance of the unstoppable awfulness of people in power, these are stories about Vimes dragging them in by their neck and saying, I’ll arrest you, yes, even you.

I love a genre breaking story, and always loved that Terry Pratchett wrote them, but hadn’t considered that these break genre in two very different directions. (For those who haven’t read them, the two characters work closely together and Mr Fantasy, Destiny’s Chosen Polite Refuser of Awfulness and Destiny, really looks up to Mr Screw You Nihilism and Also The Monarchy as a shining example he will follow.)

I also love tumblr because here I can find long-form text analyses of media, either that I already love or gain new appreciation for by seeing their love. I’ve gone on sprees of meta reading on various tumblrs just to bask in that love for story, and celebration of its meaning. I’ve also been asked after panels for more exact citations of that extremely insightful scholarly article I was quoting from… I do of course direct them here. They don’t realise treasures await!

Carrot and Vimes are an especially fun dynamic due to Carrot being the One True King of Ankh-Morpork by heritage… who is happily subordinate to Vimes, a scion of a king-killer and a devoted anti-monarchist and egalitarian. Carrot doesn’t want to be in charge or on a throne, he just wants to be Some Guy Doing Good; meanwhile, Vimes gets bestowed with title upon title and as ennobled as Vetinari can possibly make him without actually bedazzling him wholesale, like an extremely grumpy cat shoved into an elaborate Halloween costume. It’s fantastic.

Vetinari gives Vimes fancy titles for safekeeping like a spy entrusting coded messages to a messenger who can’t read

Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations

yeah that’s super important. 

This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.

Be kind. 💜

“friend of Dorothy” was used to say you were gay discreetly for fucking years. Where did it come from?

“You have some queer friends, Dorothy”, and she replies, “The queerness doesn’t matter, so long as they’re friends.”

Like, it was popular enough for it to be a thing in ww2.

This is a distance of roughly 625 miles and we are going to assume that the speed does not include the time penalty of Spain having a different Rail Gauge than France.

At 890 miles of rail you can get New York to Chicago which would be the ideal first route, but what can you get with 625 miles that makes more since than Columbus?

Well at that distance you can get Raleigh-DC-Philadelphia-NYC- Boston

With intermediate stops in Richmond, Baltimore, New Haven, and Providence

That is a route that is not only good, but has potential to be one of the most used rail lines in the world if it were at high speeds and a cheap price

How about putting some more rails, especially high speed, out here in the midwest, so those of us stuck out here can travel without hours in a car or spending hundreds on a plane ticket?

I guess another route of equivalent length would be St.Paul-Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago- -Indianapolis-louisville

I remember when Obama put aside the money for a rapid light rail system from Chicago to Minneapolis. And the loathsome then Governor of Wisconsin gave the money back, and blocked the project.

Wake up, Alex Krokus

Well he already has plenty of money there, so he has no incentive to have the trolley run us over!

@ltleflrt you wanted a nose boop here u go

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