tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32703368907454756102024-03-05T06:09:47.259-08:00Michelle's Bright IdeasMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13338939311510848332noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270336890745475610.post-90309426665887908522013-05-22T22:59:00.002-07:002013-05-22T23:04:04.565-07:00Rice PuddingYield: 6 Servings<br />
<br />
1/2 c White rice;<br />
1/4 c Water;<br />
2 c Skim milk;<br />
1/4 c Sugar;<br />
1 ts Vanilla extract;<br />
1/2 c Raisins;<br />
<br />
Cook the rice in 3/4 c water over medium heat until tender, about 45
minutes. Add the skim milk and sugar. Cook slowly over low heat
until thickened, about 30 minutes. Cook. Add the vanilla and
raisins and spoon into six serving dishes.
Food Exchanges per serving: 1 STARCH/BREAD EXCHANGE + 1 FRUIT
EXCHANGE + 1/2 MILK EXCHANGE; CAL: 189;
PRO: 4g; CAR: 28g; FAT: 2g; SOD: 283mg;<br />
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<br />
Ingredients: <br />
<br />
2/3 c Butter Flavor Crisco<br />
3/4 c Sugar<br />
1 tbsp Milk PLUS 1 teaspoon milk<br />
1 tsp Vanilla<br />
1 Egg<br />
2 c Flour, all purpose<br />
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder<br />
1/4 tsp Salt<br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes Chill Time: 2 hours Bake Time: 7-9<br />
Minutes<br />
<br />
1. Cream Butter Flavor Crisco, sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl<br />
at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat in egg.<br />
<br />
2. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Mix into creamed mixture.<br />
Cover and refrigerate several hours to overnight.<br />
<br />
3. Heat oven to 375 F.<br />
<br />
4. Roll half the dough at a time to about 1/8 inch thickness on<br />
floured surface. Cut in desired shapes. Place 2 inches apart on<br />
ungreased baking sheet. Sprinkle with colored sugar and decors or<br />
leave plain to frost* when cool.<br />
<br />
5. Bake at 375 for 7 to 9 minutes. Cool slightly. Remove to cooling<br />
rack.<br />
<br />
Makes 3 dozen cookies ( Depending on size and shape ).<br />
<br />
Variations for Cut-Out Sugar Cookies LEMON or ORANGE Cookie Variation<br />
~ Add 1 teaspoon grated lemon or orange peel and 1 teaspoon lemon or<br />
orange extract to step #1.<br />
<br />
*Creamy Vanilla Frosting: Combine 1/2 cup Butter Flavor Crisco, 1<br />
pound ( 4 cups ) confectioners sugar, 1/3 cup milk and 1 teaspoon<br />
vanilla in medium bowl at low speed of electric mixer until well<br />
blended. Scrape bowl. Beat at high speed for 2 minutes, or until<br />
smooth and creamy. Frost COOLED cookies. Note: Frosting works well in<br />
decorating tube.<br />
<br />
1 or 2 drops food color can be used to tint each cup of frosting, if<br />
desired.<br />
<br />
Lemon or Orange Frosting Variation Eliminate milk. Add 1/3 cup lemon<br />
or orange juice. Add 1 teaspoon orange peel with orange juice.<br />
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<br />
4 eggs<br />
1/2 c.flour<br />
1 c.sugar<br />
1 c.coconut<br />
2 c.milk<br />
2 tsp.vanilla<br />
1/4 c.margarine, melted<br />
<br />
Mix all ingredients together well. Pour<br />
into greased 10" pie plate. Bake for 1 hour<br />
or until center is firm.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a silver buckle,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I sewed it on my shoe,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And 'neath a sprig of mistletoe</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I danced the evening through!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I had a bunch of cowslips,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I hid 'em in a grot,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In case the elves should come by night</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And me remember not.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I had a yellow riband,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I tied it in my hair,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">That, walking in the garden,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The birds might see it there.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I had a secret laughter,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I laughed it near the wall:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Only the ivy and the wind</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">May tell of it at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are crocuses, white, gold, grey!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">'O dear me!' says Marjorie May;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Flat as a platter the blackberry blows:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">'O dear me!' says Madeleine Rose;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The leaves are fallen, the swallows flown:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">'O dear me!' says Humphrey John;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Snow lies thick where all night it fell:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">'O dear me!' says Emmanuel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where the bluebells and the wind are,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Fairies in a ring I spied,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And I heard a little linnet</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Singing near beside.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Where the primrose and the dew are,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Soon were sped the fairies all:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Only now the green turf freshens,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And the linnets call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I was sick and lay a-bed,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I had two pillows at my head,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And all my toys beside me lay</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">To keep me happy all the day.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And sometimes for an hour or so</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I watched my leaden soldiers go,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">With different uniforms and drills,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Among the bed-clothes, through the hills.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And sometimes sent my ships in fleets</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I was the giant great and still</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">That sits upon the pillow-hill,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">And sees before him, dale and plain</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The pleasant Land of Counterpane.</span></div>
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There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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the old King, the Prince's father, went out himself to open it.</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
It was a Princess who was standing outside the door. What with the rain</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.</div>
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Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night.</div>
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The next morning she was asked how she had slept. "Oh, very badly</div>
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indeed!" she replied. "I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night</div>
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through. I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard</div>
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under me, and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me so much!"</div>
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Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had</div>
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been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses</div>
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and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a</div>
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delicate sense of feeling.</div>
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The Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he</div>
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had found a real Princess. The three peas were however put into the</div>
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cabinet of curiosities, where they are still to be seen, provided they</div>
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are not lost.</div>
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Wasn't this a lady of real delicacy?</div>
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Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13338939311510848332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270336890745475610.post-82049708038519098162012-04-24T11:39:00.000-07:002013-05-13T22:23:13.665-07:00THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE by the Brothers Grimm<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together. For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores. The bird's duty was to fly daily into the wood and bring in fuel; the mouse fetched the water, and the sausage saw to the cooking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When people are too well off they always begin to long for something new. And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements. But the other bird sneered at him for being a poor simpleton, who did all the hard work, while the other two stayed at home and had a good time of it. For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table. The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served. Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work. Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made. They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now what happened? The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day. But the sausage remained so long away, that they became uneasy, and the bird flew out to meet him. He had not flown far, however, when he came across a dog who, having met the sausage, had regarded him as his legitimate booty, and so seized and swallowed him. The bird complained to the dog of this bare-faced robbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He picked up the wood, and flew sadly home, and told the mouse all he had seen and heard. They were both very unhappy, but agreed to make the best of things and to remain with one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now the bird set the table, and the mouse looked after the food and, wishing to prepare it in the same way as the sausage, by rolling in and out among the vegetables to salt and butter them, she jumped into the pot; but she stopped short long before she reached the bottom, having already parted not only with her skin and hair, but also with life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Presently the bird came in and wanted to serve up the dinner, but he could nowhere see the cook. In his alarm and flurry, he threw the wood here and there about the floor, called and searched, but no cook was to be found. Then some of the wood that had been carelessly thrown down, caught fire and began to blaze. The bird hastened to fetch some water, but his pail fell into the well, and he after it, and as he was unable to recover himself, he was drowned. </span><br />
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