[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Well, all right, but no pie.

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 Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:07 AM, 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.
> >>
> >
>