[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, that should be remedied soon. Tomorrow is the Mega Pi Day!

> On Mar 13, 2015, at 2:03 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>