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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:46:13AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble said: > How did you find a Yorkshire tray? We've been hunting for one to give > to the brother-in-law for Xmas here in Australia. (Fortunately I > brought mine from the UK, so I'm alright :) I think it was just a muffin or fairy cake tin. As a backup I was going to use a round pie dish and make a big one (oooerr, missus). > What's so different about American milk? They pasteurise and homogenise > it, don't they? And the grades are broadly similar: full fat is the > same, half-and-half = lite, skim = skim? It seems to be a bit ... hmm, creamier. And not in a nice way. I love my full fat milk (although for the past 6 years I've been using green lidded semi-skimmed) but, after having bought out some PG Tips for my morning and afternoon cuppas (all previous attempts at using English and Irish Breakfast having failed to produce the desired brew[*]) I've noticed that even half-and-half just wasn't the right 'texture'. I've taken to using skimmed which I would never consider back in Blighty since it magically turns all tea in to something horrifyingly akin to dishwater. Oh dear, I shall just have to practice. Woe is me. :) Simon [*] I am, of course, oblijed to quote the late, great D. Adams Esq "He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."There's stuff above here
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