Flash Bristow ([info]techiebabe) wrote,
@ 2008-09-13 12:21:00
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Brown sugar, just like a young girl should...
Today I announced that I was going to make a chocolate and caramel tray bake, something I've never done before. "Oh" said Mike, "Sticky Fingers!"

Bother. I was worried that he had made it at primary school - and here was I thinking that the recipe might be difficult! But it turned out his mum had made it, and that was what they called it.

While making the biscuit base, I wasn't sure whether it should go like breadcrumbs or in a ball like pastry, so I rang my mother. "Oh" she said, "Millionaire's Shortbread!"

Annoyingly, she followed up by saying "very easy, I've done it lots of times" and even more annoyingly she said she was planning to make it herself this weekend. I spend my life trying to be different and look what happens!

So I guess it's "Millionaire's Sticky Fingers".

(Hence the lyrics in the title. I don't know why I bother...)


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[info]alex_holden
2008-09-13 11:56 am UTC (link)
I did recognise that one as a lyric, though I couldn't tell you what song it's from.

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[info]techiebabe
2008-09-13 12:46 pm UTC (link)
"Brown Sugar". From the album Sticky Fingers by those well known millionaires, the Rolling Stones...

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[info]technogran
2008-09-13 03:39 pm UTC (link)
I remember it out as a single. (Showing my age.)

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[info]techiebabe
2008-09-13 03:52 pm UTC (link)
That must have been such an exciting time to have lived, musically. I don't think what is produced these days is very new and interesting, if only I'd been alive to discover Pink Floyd, the Stones, Genesis... rather than being able to go through my dad's record collection as a kid and being spoonfed the music.

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[info]technogran
2008-09-13 04:25 pm UTC (link)
You are right. My children all envy me because I live through the pre-rock and roll (Frankie Lane, Doris Day, etc when I was a young girl, then the start of rock and roll, Bill Haley, Gerry Lee Lewis, etc, then Tamala Motown,the Beatles and all the Mersey groups followed by Slade, David Bowie etc and I agree, pop music today is insipid and boring.

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[info]tasseltip
2008-09-13 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Specially when accompanied by clips where people think that the more skin they show, the more the music will be improved. That mentality doesn't help.

I watch fragments and think, guys if skin's going to improve this, you need a tribe of saggy baggy elephants dancing through the jungle before you've got something worth listening to.

In many ways this is not a creative era (note: I did not say all or even most! I see creative stuff around too!).

Technogran: I can see why people would envy all of those influences :)

The chocolate and caramel sticky things (whatever you end up calling it!) sounds marvellously delicious. I'm not sure I'll join you in making in - would probably come close to passing out after the sugar and there are assignments to do - but I've had something similar and it was excellent.

I always like your cooking accounts too, Flash, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes!

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[info]techiebabe
2008-09-13 10:43 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, I just write the blog to get things out of my system and save me bending [info]techiebloke's ear but it's always good to get support and to know that you've enjoyed something I've written. What with the sore finger I am quite often having the odd moment of introspection and questioning, so thank you for being there (along with my other readers / friends).

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[info]technogran
2008-09-14 03:03 am UTC (link)
Well there would be no point as I couldn't eat it. I have a gluten intolerance and following my heart attack, have to watch the fat intake as well, so this is a no go I'm afraid!

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[info]tasseltip
2008-09-14 03:18 am UTC (link)
Something I particularly enjoy about these cooking projects is when photos get posted, and the recipe and account of making the things. I often don't make them myself, but I really enjoy looking. No gluten or fat in a picture! And the photography here is not bad either :)

Don't know if this helps, but I really enjoy taking pleasure in something others have made... even if they are the other side of the world! Probably even more than when I make it, because then I don't have to wash up!

And Flash makes things look great.

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[info]techiebloke
2008-09-14 09:06 am UTC (link)
I always like your cooking accounts too, Flash, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes!

nomnomnom.

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[info]tasseltip
2008-09-14 10:12 pm UTC (link)
Proof of the pudding, eh?

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[info]techiebabe
2008-09-21 05:33 pm UTC (link)
Ha!

Judging from the sticky plates, I think you enjoyed it.

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[info]techiebabe
2008-09-21 05:32 pm UTC (link)
Still, you also had to live through things like George Formby.

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[info]technogran
2008-09-21 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Well I don't remember him all that much to be honest. My earliest recollection of music (popular)was Doris Day, Frankie Lane etc in the fifties.

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I followed you here from auntysarah's...
[info]capybyra
2008-09-18 06:27 am UTC (link)
Song lyrics seem to encypher parts of our lives. Then they get often deeper than that. It's a thing that some of us nod at whilst smiling. And others seem either uncomprehending of or worse still contempt drips from their dead souls. Thank you for being one of the ones aware of lyrics.

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Re: I followed you here from auntysarah's...
[info]techiebabe
2008-09-21 05:36 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, I appreciate that comment.

Music is something that's very important to me, in a "soundtrack to our lives" kind of way, and it's very strange having a husband who isn't really like that. It's fine, but it's something I don't really get. I assumed everyone came home from work and carefully chose something they wanted - needed - to hear, or to get things out of their system, or whatever.

And these days there's so much competing. It's just as easy to play a comedy show from iPlayer as it is an album. Everything seems to be "always on" and can just be thrown away, and the important things seem to get lost.

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nods on a spouse not captured by words or music.
[info]capybyra
2008-09-22 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Yeah- that sentiment about:

Everything seems to be "always on" and can just be thrown away, and the important things seem to get lost.

Were not I just a new guest here- and the story a bit longish- I'd post it here.

But the song came to embody that Vonnegut term "Wampeter" for several of us in my childhood.

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