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Post 'em here! 
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Perfect, Anna. Now I have a place for this:
My calendar says that today is Australia Day. So, Happy (or Solemn, whichever is appropriate) Australia Day to all the good folks in the land of Oz.
What, please, does Australia Day denote?
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Great idea AnnS!
Here's a New England winter treat.
Slice and toast a doughnut, butter, drizzle REAL maple syrup over it.
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my favorite breakfast treat is stale pound cake, toasted, buttered, and spread with raspberry preserves! A little slice of heaven!
(the hard part is keeping pound cake in the house long enough for it to stale--) and in french--pound cake is 4 quarters- the basic ingredients are 4 oz of butter, 4 oz of sugar, 4 oz of eggs, 4 oz of flour-- and allegedly, the English liked it so much, they took the same recipe and uses 1lb butter, 1 lb sugar, 1 lb eggs, 1lb flour...
It one of my son's favorite cakes--
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Dear of troy: Right now I wish I could turn the clock back and have one of my wife's snickerdoodles and a glass of milk. Which reminds me, did you hear the joke that went around a year or so ago, about the dying man smelling his wife's cookies being baked? He crawled down the stairs to steal one, but got a sharp rap from spatula, because they were for the funeral.
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Sparteye,
My calendar also indicates today as Australia Day. Wonder if it celebrates the arrival of Capt. Cook? (linking pun on recipes fully intended). Guess we'll have to wait for the Wizards of Oz to finish celebrating and clue us in.
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How many eggs in a pound?
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Well ideally, you weight them-- but as i recall Joy of Cooking (great cookbook) has a guide based on USDA grade size-- (x many medium eggs = 1 pound, y many large, etc.) If you are in a more rural area you might have a coopprative extention office of USDA, and they should be able to give you a clue-- I think for pound cake its 7 to 8 USGrade A large eggs to a pound--more if using medium, fewer if using extra large or jumbo eggs.
pound cake can be made by creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs (in about thirds)beating well after each addition, (adding vanila or lemon flavor) and adding Flour in thirds. (fold in last third) No levening is needed. the air in creamed butter/egg mixture is all that is needed. (Joy suggest 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of double acting baking powder as a back up) Turn into greased and floured tube pan, back at 350 (F) for about 45 to 50 minutes.. Until done (check with toothpick)
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Recipes - if you like them, try my (other) favourite site: http://www.epicurious.comAlso feel free to come and cook for me, because I never have time. As for Australia Day, apparently it celebrates Australia. The date changed at some point, for some reason. My historically challenged lesser half doesn't know why. I have a vague feeling it may have been to do with not being the date that Captain Cook arrived because that upset the Aborigines. The best Australia Day story I heard came from Tasmania, where they were holding the World Sheepdog Trials. The radio interviewer asked how many countries' dogs were competing, to be told (sheepishly!  ) that when they set the event up they had failed to check into quarantine and cost of transport for dogs. Apparently, even to bring a dog from NZ cost about A$1500 (~US$700), which put most competitors out of the market. So the World Champion Sheepdog will be Australian. Or maybe they did check and just thought this was appropriate for an Australia Day event? 
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>My calendar also indicates today as Australia Day. Wonder if it celebrates the arrival of Capt. Cook? (linking pun on recipes fully intended). Guess we'll have to wait for the Wizards of Oz to finish celebrating and clue us in.G'day. I've just come up for air after ploughing - he says mixametaphorototically - through the 1100-odd (and I mean odd) posts which appeared during my one-week absence. The First Fleet carrying the initial shipment of convicts from England arrived in Botany Bay, New South Wales on 26 January 1788 (18 years or so after Capt Cook). Funny sort of thing to celebrate as your national day, you might say, and there are thousands of Australians who would agree with you, not the least many Aboriginal people who regard it as a celebration of the white invasion of their country. Trouble is, without a tea party, war of independence or like event of national (and unifying) significance, it's the best we've come up with. Although the official date is 26 January, the public holiday used to be declared on the nearest Monday, in order to provide that great Aussie tradition the "long weekend". In recent years the public holiday has been gazetted to fall on the 26 January itself, in an attempt to focus us on celebrating our national spirit etc etc rather than the time off work. This year it was, of course, a Friday, so we got the long weekend anyway , although for many people it passed with little fanfare during the last week of the summer school holidays. To complicate matters, on 1 January this year we celebrated the centenary of Federation - yes, it was only 100 years ago that the various states, several of which originated as disparate penal colonies, came together as a federated country with its own constitution and government (and someone else's monarch, but that's another story). With Australia Day coming so soon on the heels of those celebrations, I think we were all paraded out.
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