Whipped up some 35% pouring cream to go with a coffee prepared in my Hario V60 dripper. That was very fine indeed. Smooth Guatemalan medium roast beans, freshly ground. Sweetened with a mix of local honey & Lyle’s golden syrup (I’m out of sugar again).
Heavenly match, so smooth.
@phoneboy I tried lard in preference to dripping or ghee. It’s three times the price of dripping but definitely not three time as good.
Lard here is pig fat; dripping or tallow is from cattle. I’m told that roast potatoes are best done in duck fat, but that’s too expensive for me.
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@phoneboy In the early 1990s Mcdonalds in Australia shopped cooking their chips (I refuse to use the word fries in this context) in beef dripping. By no coincidence whatsoever, that’s also when the flavour of the product changed & not for the better.
Any frying I do at home is with the products of live or dead cattle: beef dripping if I can’t get any ghee.
With a growing Asian population in these parts, more & more little Indian/Sri Lankan grocery stores are popping up locally. It’s actually reasonably easy to source ghee now. The best stuff I’ve found is a lille rarer, being 50% buffalo/50% cow’s milk sourced.
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@phoneboy There’s a farm-based cheesemaker 53 km away that also sells their own pasteurised-only milk, which tastes just like real milk should taste. They make great yogurt & their cream is really special. The packaging of the cream doesn’t mention the percentage but in Australia, double cream starts at 48% butterfat. This suffis just short of double cream in consistency, so I’d imagine it to be around 45%.
#Lush
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@jussipekonen My latest car also has cruise control, a basic & simple one with on & off buttons, cancel & resume previously set speed button & a rocker switch to vary the speed up & down in 1 k/hr increments.
On those longer drives it’s a blessing. I often find myself using the speed increase setting instead of the accellerator pedal.
Body Corporate for these seven living units wants the owners to vote on a new guttering colour scheme but close of business today. I put the unfill ballot form on the wi-fi connected multifunction inkjet printer’s scanning bed & switched the thing on.
Image Capture on the Mac detected it immediately. Scanned the item to the desktop, opened, annotated & closed the PDF using Preview then shared it via e-mail to the Body Corporate manager.
Then saved the PDF to iCloud Drive.
Wind chill. Outside temperature at 4:30 pm is 10.5°C, but feels like 3.7°. A few hours ago, before the rain started I was out in a short-sleeved shirt.
@literary I’m on the committee for a biggish Mac User Group, it’s coming up to the time to organise the annual fund-raising raffle. 1st prize is a 256 GB iPhone 8 Plus, second is a 128 GB iPad (cellular) without Pencil (let the winner buy that). Third prize is an Apple Store card for $300.
@streakmachine I had a circular slide rule once, in could fit in a trouser pocket. Try that with a conventional linear slide rule.
// @c