[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[Grace Cangialosi]

Actually, I think powdermilk biscuits are only found in Lake Woebegone, and I've always assumed they were made with buttermilk and baking powder...

> On Mar 12, 2015,.  at 5:07, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> *I* listened to it all, and looked at their accompanying graphics. I
> saw no cookies. A rhabarberkuchen is a cake. Even with beer, it is
> still a piece of cake.
> When you said rhubarb cookies I thought of a conflation of Garrison
> Keillor's rhubarb pie and powdermilk biscuits. (Although now I come to
> think of it, are powdermilk biscuits what I have always assumed them
> to be?)
> <sigh> We seem to be divided once again by a common language.
> 
> Regards
> Lesley de Voil
> 
>> On 3/12/15, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Only rhubarb cookies in this thread. Sorry.
>> 
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**"  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Re rhubarb (and it should be clear that this is NOT about rhubarb
>>> COOKIES):
>>> 
>>> My mother used to make some wonderful rhubarb pies during the
>>> spring season, and she also put up a rhubarb sauce served like
>>> a pudding, and to which she referred as "spring tonic".
>>> 
>>> I've had little rhubarb since my youth, though there was a company
>>> headquartered in Michigan called  "Chef Pierre" that put out a  wonderful
>>> rhubarb pie (among others) back in the 1980's, but I have been
>>> unsuccessful in finding them here recently.
>>> 
>>> To my surprise, Sam's (as in Wal Mart) occasionally carries rhubarb
>>> pie.  Sadly, the pie is essentially inedible, tasteless and  chewy.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>>