Subj : Bits & Bobs
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Jan 21 2025 12:38:02

Hi Dave,


 RH> Shouldn't, but the old "guys rule" mentality is hard to break.

 DD> It's both a fact and a mystery. Women are just as smart or smarter can
 DD> be as strong and do handle pain better, But men don't get their bodies
 DD> all stretched out of shape growing babies internally and they have
 DD> taken a lot of advantage from that.

 RH> But some guys will never "get it".

 DD> Ya think???

Don't think, know.


 DD>      8----- JUMP ----->8

 DD> I don't know about that first hand. Never raised a child of my own.
 DD> Did raise a girl. Must have done an OK job as I got invited to her
 DD> wedding and her birtg father was told, rather pointedly, to stay away.

 RH> You don't have to have been the biological parent to be a good/great
 RH> parent.

 DD> Guess not. It's pretty much a matter of not being selfish and sharing
 DD> your life with the child.

With all the ups and downs that go with it. We've got 2 grand kids
graduating 8th grade this year. Time was, they would end their schooling
there and go to work. Now they're both going to high school and (maybe)
college or a tech school. We'll be there to share the occasion with
them.

 DD> The Boy Sprout root beer is bottled in old wine bottles and corked,
 DD> noy capped. And it has to be refrigerated lest it "blow its cork".

 RH> We kept it in the unheaed or cooled cellar, only bringing up bottles
 RH> to be used with a meal. I can recall a few blow outs, but not many. I
 RH> think part of it was that my folks usually made root beer in the
 RH> winter.

 DD> Did your folks use caps or corks? When I messed about with brewing my
 DD> own beer I used a capping tool and never had a problem. Some of my
 DD> friends/acquaintances who used their own method of capping had the
 DD> occasional "blow its cork" episode. Especially during the dog days of
 DD> summer.

My parents had a capping tool. Put the cap on the bottle and lower the
tool around the cap, sealing it. Tool was sort of like a drill
press--pull a lever to lower the mechanism that crimped/sealed the cap.

 DD>      8<----- SHIFT ----->8


 RH> So make what you like and leave the other sauces to the folks that like
 RH> them. For the most part, I don't do any sauce on my meat but eastern NC
 RH> style pulled pork usually gets a bit more of the vinegar "mop" added to
 RH> my serving.

 DD> I don't generally care for my meat swimming in sauce. And if I'm doing
 DD> BBQ at home on my grill I usually wind up with the "mop" sauce
 DD> caramelised on the meat. Which is sort of my defense against "too
 DD> sweet" BBQ sauces.

 DD> This is very close to Popeye's "Blazin' Heifer" sauce. Benson "Popeye"
 DD> Jones was Springfield's best, most popular BBQ joint owner/pitmaster.

 DD> The Blazon Heifer was a dipping sauce rather than a mop.


 DD>       Title: Red's Backwoods Bbq Sauce
 DD>  Categories: Sauces, Bbq, Chilies, Herbs
 DD>       Yield: 5 Quarts

It looks a bit "warm" for me but Steve might enjoy it. He usually sauces
his bbq, both beef and pork.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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