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A Cooking Thread?
Morituri:
FYI, Yogurt (spelled without an 'h' except in a few odd places) has been an everyday dairy product here for *at least* forty years, and people have been making their own at least occasionally for at least that long. In this case, when we want an obscenely rich variety for a holiday menu that can't be had at the market.
What it is that started ten years ago?
pwhodges:
The word yogurt comes from Turkish, and has been naturalised with several spellings: yogurt, yoghurt, yoghourt. The spellings yoghurd, yogourt, and yahourt died out very quickly.
Yoghourt has pretty much died out (except in posy advertising), and generally America has settled on yogurt and Britain on yoghurt. I use yogurt, but my British spell-checker objects to it.
Morituri:
I knew it came from that part of the world - though I couldn't have identified Turkish specifically. And I've seen the 'yoghurt' spelling (in, as you say, posy advertising) but had no idea it was standard in British English. It's just been in the back of my head as one of those variants - odd, but not necessarily wrong - that some folk prefer.
Is it a general pattern that American English, where there are differences in word length, tends to settle on spellings with fewer letters?
Gyrre:
Learned this one from my mom over the holidays.
Diabetic friendly(ish) Pumpkin Cheesecake
* 1 tub whipped cream
* ½ tub of cream cheese
* 1 can pumpkin (fresh pumpkin has too much moisture)
* 1 pack vanilla pudding
* nutmeg
* pumpkin spice (your discretion)
* fresh ginger (your discretion)
* 1 cup milk
* 1 Tbsp sugar
* pie crust
Mix whipped cream with the cream cheese till foamy. Coat the bottom of the pie shell with sugar. Next, place the cheese mix in the bottom of the shell in an even layer. In a separate container, mix the pudding, pumpkin spice and milk. Then, add the remaining spices to the pumpkin mix. Add the pumpkin mix atop the cheese layer and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Thrillho:
I got a garlic crusher for Christmas. I've been using it and it's really useful having the garlic crushed instead of cut up, and it takes hardly any time, but good lord they are impossible to clean.
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