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'Lemon verbena'
Looking for the ID of that mysterious fruit, I just found these recipes for
one of my favourite shrubs, Aloysia triphylla. It used to be known as Lippia citrodora and is commonly known as Lemon verbena. I knew it could be used to flavour a sponge cake by putting it in the bottom of the cake tin or as a tea infusion but ice cream....?! Poached Fruit in Lemon Verbena Syrup 1? cups water ? cup Sauvignon Blanc ? cup sugar 12 white peppercorns, lightly cracked 4 apricots, seeded and quartered 1 cup cherries, halved and pitted 48 lemon verbena leaves, torn Combine the water, wine, sugar and white peppercorns in a medium saucepan. Heat to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer just until the sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute. Add the apricots, cherries and lemon verbena leaves. Simmer 3 to 4 minutes, just until the fruit is almost tender yet still firm. Remove the mixture from the heat and pour into a heatproof glass bowl. Let cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate 2 to 3 hours. Serves 4 to 6. Lemon Verbena Ice Cream 1? cups milk 1? cups whipping cream 1? cups lightly packed small lemon verbena leaves 4 egg yolks ? cup sugar 1 teaspoon lemon juice In a saucepan over low heat, bring the milk, whipping cream and lemon verbena leaves to a full simmer. Remove the mixture from the heat, pour into a glass bowl and let cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate overnight. The next day, strain the milk-cream mixture into a saucepan (discarding the lemon verbena leaves) and heat to a simmer. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the egg yolks and sugar until thick and lemon colored, about 1 minute. Pour a third of the hot milk-cream mixture into the egg yolk mixture and stir to blend, then pour the entire mixture back into the saucepan. Heat and stir over medium heat until the custard begins to thicken and just begins to bubble around the edge, about 3 minutes. Remove the custard from the heat and pour it into a metal bowl. Set the bowl in a larger bowl filled with ice water. Let the mixture stand, stirring occasionally, until the custard is chilled. Whisk in the lemon juice. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer¹s directions. Spoon the ice cream into a chilled glass bowl or loaf dish and freeze until ready to serve. Serves four to six. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
'Lemon verbena'
"Anne Jackson" wrote in message ... The message from Sacha contains these words: Poached Fruit in Lemon Verbena Syrup 1? cups water ? cup Sauvignon Blanc ? cup sugar What do the question marks signify, Sacha? 1/2? -- AnneJ I would say she doesn't know how much to put in. What would you say they mean? Mike -- www.rnshipmates.co.uk for ALL Royal Navy Association matters www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will be there. |
'Lemon verbena'
On 1/12/07 15:56, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: Poached Fruit in Lemon Verbena Syrup 1? cups water ? cup Sauvignon Blanc ? cup sugar What do the question marks signify, Sacha? 1/2? Looking back at the recipes I found, all those mean one half of Sauvignon Blanc and three quarters of a cup of sugar. In the ice cream recipe all of them mean one half. I wonder why they 'translate' that way onto a pasted recipe. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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In message , Sacha
writes On 1/12/07 15:56, in article , "Anne Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: Poached Fruit in Lemon Verbena Syrup 1? cups water ? cup Sauvignon Blanc ? cup sugar What do the question marks signify, Sacha? 1/2? Looking back at the recipes I found, all those mean one half of Sauvignon Blanc and three quarters of a cup of sugar. In the ice cream recipe all of them mean one half. I wonder why they 'translate' that way onto a pasted recipe. cos usenet is a 7 bit medium and characters like 1/2 are characters that require 8 bits and so end up as unknown in the 7 bit environment. -- Si |
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In article , Si $3o&m writes: | In message , Sacha | writes | | Looking back at the recipes I found, all those mean one half of Sauvignon | Blanc and three quarters of a cup of sugar. In the ice cream recipe all of | them mean one half. I wonder why they 'translate' that way onto a pasted | recipe. | | cos usenet is a 7 bit medium and characters like 1/2 are characters that | require 8 bits and so end up as unknown in the 7 bit environment. Well, I remember the days when 1/2 was a 7-bit character :-) But you are quite correct, of course. More precisely, you can rely on the basic ASCII graphic characters, space and newline - and nothing else. These are A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and `~!@#$%^&*()_+-={}|[]\:";'?,./ Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:04:54 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote
(in article ): In article , Sacha writes: On 2/12/07 09:45, in article , "Si" $3o&m wrote: cos usenet is a 7 bit medium and characters like 1/2 are characters that require 8 bits and so end up as unknown in the 7 bit environment. I'd like to pretend I understand that but I'm grateful anyway. ;-) In future it's probably better to write out one half etc. I could explain, but you would then have to get someone else to translate :-) Basically, there are two causes of such chaos: 1) Using characters that have no representation in ASCII (1/2 being one, pound being another). If it isn't on the main part of your keyboard in either unshifted or prime shift form, don't use it (e.g. don't use Alt). And don't use pound on a UK keyboard. Which is why you will notice the frequent use of GBP in place of the pound sign on usenet - among those who know :-) You may have realised that on your Mac keyboard, Sacha, you can only get the hash sign by using Alt/Option + 3 (the hash sign apparently being used by Merkins for the pound sign). -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation churchyard: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
'Lemon verbena'
On 2/12/07 14:30, in article
, "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:04:54 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote (in article ): In article , Sacha writes: On 2/12/07 09:45, in article , "Si" $3o&m wrote: cos usenet is a 7 bit medium and characters like 1/2 are characters that require 8 bits and so end up as unknown in the 7 bit environment. I'd like to pretend I understand that but I'm grateful anyway. ;-) In future it's probably better to write out one half etc. I could explain, but you would then have to get someone else to translate :-) Basically, there are two causes of such chaos: 1) Using characters that have no representation in ASCII (1/2 being one, pound being another). If it isn't on the main part of your keyboard in either unshifted or prime shift form, don't use it (e.g. don't use Alt). And don't use pound on a UK keyboard. Which is why you will notice the frequent use of GBP in place of the pound sign on usenet - among those who know :-) You may have realised that on your Mac keyboard, Sacha, you can only get the hash sign by using Alt/Option + 3 (the hash sign apparently being used by Merkins for the pound sign). No, I hadn't realised that, so thanks, Sally. I don't think I've ever used it and as far as I know the £ sign comes through clearly. I'm x-ing my fingers as I type that. On this new machine's keyboard it's alt+fn=# -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
'Lemon verbena'
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:46:17 +0000, Sacha wrote
(in article ) : On 2/12/07 14:30, in article , "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:04:54 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote (in article ): snip 1) Using characters that have no representation in ASCII (1/2 being one, pound being another). If it isn't on the main part of your keyboard in either unshifted or prime shift form, don't use it (e.g. don't use Alt). And don't use pound on a UK keyboard. Which is why you will notice the frequent use of GBP in place of the pound sign on usenet - among those who know :-) You may have realised that on your Mac keyboard, Sacha, you can only get the hash sign by using Alt/Option + 3 (the hash sign apparently being used by Merkins for the pound sign). No, I hadn't realised that, so thanks, Sally. I don't think I've ever used it and as far as I know the £ sign comes through clearly. I'm x-ing my fingers as I type that. On this new machine's keyboard it's alt+fn=# Well obviously it shows up correctly to me, but the point is that it wouldn't necessarily do so to someone with a US (or other than British) keyboard - because such symbols are in different places on different keyboards. This is important in an international forum such as usenet. Your keyboard is I assume set to English layout, so that you do in fact get the pound sign just by Shift+3. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK http://www.freerice.com/index.php Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game |
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On 2/12/07 17:51, in article
, "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:46:17 +0000, Sacha wrote (in article ) : On 2/12/07 14:30, in article , "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:04:54 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote (in article ): snip 1) Using characters that have no representation in ASCII (1/2 being one, pound being another). If it isn't on the main part of your keyboard in either unshifted or prime shift form, don't use it (e.g. don't use Alt). And don't use pound on a UK keyboard. Which is why you will notice the frequent use of GBP in place of the pound sign on usenet - among those who know :-) You may have realised that on your Mac keyboard, Sacha, you can only get the hash sign by using Alt/Option + 3 (the hash sign apparently being used by Merkins for the pound sign). No, I hadn't realised that, so thanks, Sally. I don't think I've ever used it and as far as I know the £ sign comes through clearly. I'm x-ing my fingers as I type that. On this new machine's keyboard it's alt+fn=# Well obviously it shows up correctly to me, but the point is that it wouldn't necessarily do so to someone with a US (or other than British) keyboard - because such symbols are in different places on different keyboards. This is important in an international forum such as usenet. Your keyboard is I assume set to English layout, so that you do in fact get the pound sign just by Shift+3. Hmmmmm - is this where I take up a "Europe cut off my fog" attitude? ;-)) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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In article , Tom Gardner writes: | | Well, I remember the days when 1/2 was a 7-bit character :-) | | I remember when they were three 5-bit characters. | (I don't think they required 5 characters, but I'd | have to check to be certain) It depends on which 5-bit code. I can no longer remember either of the ones I used. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In message , Nick Maclaren
writes In article , Tom Gardner writes: | | Well, I remember the days when 1/2 was a 7-bit character :-) | | I remember when they were three 5-bit characters. | (I don't think they required 5 characters, but I'd | have to check to be certain) It depends on which 5-bit code. I can no longer remember either of the ones I used. quite a few here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding -- Si |
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On Dec 2, 5:59 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2/12/07 17:51, in article t, "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:46:17 +0000, Sacha wrote (in article ) : On 2/12/07 14:30, in article t, "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:04:54 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote (in article ): snip 1) Using characters that have no representation in ASCII (1/2 being one, pound being another). If it isn't on the main part of your keyboard in either unshifted or prime shift form, don't use it (e.g. don't use Alt). And don't use pound on a UK keyboard. Which is why you will notice the frequent use of GBP in place of the pound sign on usenet - among those who know :-) You may have realised that on your Mac keyboard, Sacha, you can only get the hash sign by using Alt/Option + 3 (the hash sign apparently being used by Merkins for the pound sign). No, I hadn't realised that, so thanks, Sally. I don't think I've ever used it and as far as I know the £ sign comes through clearly. I'm x-ing my fingers as I type that. On this new machine's keyboard it's alt+fn=# Well obviously it shows up correctly to me, but the point is that it wouldn't necessarily do so to someone with a US (or other than British) keyboard - because such symbols are in different places on different keyboards. This is important in an international forum such as usenet. Your keyboard is I assume set to English layout, so that you do in fact get the pound sign just by Shift+3. Hmmmmm - is this where I take up a "Europe cut off my fog" attitude? ;-)) Europe *never* cut off your fog, Sacha, honest ;-) But seriously, if you want to see mangled, you should try corresponding with frogs using web-based email. All accents, cedilles and other items come through as series of letters and other characters. On one of my accounts, the accented letters are simply omitted altogether. This makes for pretty interesting reading... But in essence, I suspect you're right. It was a case of the US (who seem to have invented most computer language protocol) declaring that the non-Anglo world was cut off by fog. Cat(h) |
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