Newbrassky

[gophergrease]

Del, do you have a good Russian rye bread? If so make up a load and I'll be makeing super tonite.

[Trinity]

Trinity climbs to a sitting position.  Wondering why his head is so sore he looks and realizes that he had fallen at the door.  Someone or several someones must have hit him in the head when entering and exiting the house.  He wonders if it had been done intentionally.  "Ah jest kain't 'magine no one doin' sump'in like that a-pupous sept mebbe Delmonico!"  Then a mental image constructs itsself of Delmonico repeatedly bashing Trinity in the head all in the name of "waking him up".

Trinity slides into the swing and hopes that the rythmic motion will help ease his headache.

"<sniff><sniff> What's that smail? <sniff><sniff> Ain' no good whatever it is."

[gophergrease]

The smell of Beef Stognoff drifts from the kicken. The dark Rye Bread sits cooling on the table.
The Pachlava are just going in the oven.
Draning the boild tatters, GG call out for all " SUPPERS READY, GET SOME NOW OR I"LL THROW IT TO THE HOGS!"


With that siad he makes a plate and sits down to eat.

[gophergrease]

Pachlava recipe
Ingredients

2 c flour
1 ea egg
150 g sour cream (1/2 c)
150 g butter       (1/2 c)
1/2 ts baking powder
1 c walnuts finely chopped
1 c sugar


Method
Make a dough with 1 yolk, baking powder, soft butter, sour
cream. Divide in three parts and roll out three rounds (size of
your baking pan). Make a filling with chopped walnuts, egg-white
and sugar.
Put one round in the pan and cover with a half of filling. Put
another round on the top and cover with the rest of filling. And
then another round again. Bake in the oven about a half an hour.

[Trinity]

Out on the porch Trinity had fallen back asleep.  He is sitting straight up in the swing and his head is back at 90 degrees as if he were looking at the ceiling.  He is snoring loudly.  As the smell of beef drifts from under the kitchen door and reaches Trinity's nostrils he jerks awake causing him to fall from the swing with a loud thud.

Trinity dashes into the kitchen to make sure that he is not dreaming where he finds Gophergrease sitting alone. 

<sniff><sniff> "What's that dee-lectible smail, Gophergrease??  MMM, Boy!  Ah see Beef stew an' berled taters.  All the thangs that's good to eat!  What's that black braid there?"

[Delmonico]

Delmonico, comes in sees the Rooosin food and goes out and locks up the barn and keeps the key.

"If Trinity eats too much of that he's gonna want to make that stuff that I was readin' about one time in Natiooonall Geo-grafic, a drink made out of fermented mares milk thats been dee-stilled,  I just don't know how I'd splain it to the horses."

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

With a rather unladylike gesture toward Delmonico, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother also joins in. "This is wonderful, thank you, Gopher Grease! And I always wanted the recipe for Baklava."

Meanwhile, the glass windchime now gives off the faint scent of jasmine.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico sits on the porch, but he can't stand to drink coffee there no more.   He don't think the FFg knows the differance between the smell of jasmine and steamed dog urine, cause that's all Delmonico can smell on the porch.   Going into the house he steps on yet another piece of sharp glass.

He's glad he moved Trinity off the porch and down into the cellar where there is no glass.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Margarine!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[Delmonico]

Delmonico comes out of his office with a coffee cup and runs right into Slim's


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And goes back and sees how GG upset Slim.

"Don't worry Slim, I'll have a talk with him."

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Thanks, Del. He needs to be set straight on this issue." 

[Delmonico]

Just a thought Slim, since that is a European recipe, it might be more correct to use margerine than butter.  Remember the lack of real butter is what cause that little fellar with his hand in his coat of offer the rewards for developing fake butter.

Margerine was popular in europe before it was popular here, because our farmers produced enough butter for everyone at a fair price.  But in Europe things were different.


But on the other hand I will have to 'gree with you.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Europeans are a bit weird anyway." 

[Delmonico]

Delmonico goes in to his office with a cup of coffee.  He don't want to be a witness when The Marshall and others who's only sin in live is to be from an area of the world that don't have enough butter for everyone.  With a lack of treess they will most likely hanf Slim from the ridge pole in they hay loft of the barn.   

[gophergrease]

Pachlava recipe
Ingredients

2 c flour
1 ea egg
150 g sour cream (1/2 c)
150 g butter (1/2 c)
1/2 ts baking powder
1 c walnuts finely chopped
1 c sugar


Method
Make a dough with 1 yolk, baking powder, soft butter, sour
cream. Divide in three parts and roll out three rounds (size of
your baking pan). Make a filling with chopped walnuts, egg-white
and sugar.
Put one round in the pan and cover with a half of filling. Put
another round on the top and cover with the rest of filling. And
then another round again. Bake in the oven about a half an hour.

Slim it reads butter to me.

[gophergrease]

Pachlava is Russian some what like Baklava from the middle east.
Pachlava has a crust that is softer. Baklava is made with fillo dough, that is very flacky and all most dry.

BAKLAVA

Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
40 sheets Athens Fillo Dough, thawed
1 cup butter, melted
Combine walnuts, sugar, cinnamon and cloves. Brush 12" x 16" baking pan with butter. Overlap 8 sheets on bottom of pan, buttering each sheet as you place in the pan, covering the bottom. Sprinkle with 1/3 of walnut mixture. Overlap 8 more buttered fillo sheets on top. Spread 1/3 additional walnut mixture over the fillo. Overlap with another 8 buttered fillo sheets and the remaining walnuts. Finish baklava by overlapping the remaining 16 sheets, buttering the sheets as you fit them in the pan. With sharp knife, score fillo into 1 1/2" diamonds or squares. Brush with remaining butter. Bake in preheated 350°F oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until golden brown. Cool slightly and pour warm syrup (recipe below) evenly over baklava. Cool completely, cut and serve.
Yield: 80 to 88 small pieces
SYRUP
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
1 cup honey
1 lemon peel
Bring all ingredients to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Strain and cool slightly.

This one came from the Athens foods, makers of a very good fillo. Haveing made fillo from scatch I now buy the frozen.

[gophergrease]

Tonite we will have a nice roast leg of lamb. tomato and basil salad with fetta chesse. baklava for dessert.

[Trinity]

Trinity's mouth is already watering.  Maybe it has something to do with the Pachlava and Bachlava he has crammed in his mouth, maybe it's because he is excited about the idea of leg of lamb!!!!

"MMM Golmmfmergmrmmsh, M Lmmmff femma chmmms!!!

Trinity crams another piece into his mouth in fear that it may run out. 

[Delmonico]

Delmonico sits out on the porch swing tryin' to drink coffee, but between the pain in his feet from the broken glass and the smell of steamed dog pee, he decides to go in the house.    As he comes in he hears the part about Trinty bein' exited about a lamb's leg.

That is just to much, so he grabs the coffee pot and goes into his office and locks the door.   After a minute or so, he thinks it over and places a chair under the door knob.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

From a place far, far away, where the mice have ears like big dinner plates, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother scowls. She knew all the glass had been cleaned up and that her wand was working just fine, so windchime smelled like Jasmine, not dog urine. She remembered something a redheaded young man suggested to her and her face brightened. Picking up her wand, she gave it a twirl...

And somewhere in Newbrassky, behind a locked door with a chair under a knob, Delmonico turns into a Spud.