[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

And in a year, round pi day.

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 Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>
>