Word: floured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bread. French people, it should be noted, do not bake their own bread: rather, they truck over to their local boulangerie in the a. m. with a couple of sous and buy it fresh. Mrs. Child and her co-author, Simone Beck, spent two years and 285 pounds of flour while working up a French bread recipe for Americans to use in their own kitchens. It takes seven hours, involves such diverse equipment as a folded bath towel, a razor, a hot brick, and dexterous fingers, but the result is so gratifying that the time spent duplicating the mind-boggling...
...tomorrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin-day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there's a barrel of flour or a keg of whiskey for the baggage-car, and if Bill kin put astitch in the worst rip in the biler [here in winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be eff some time Thursday, that's day after tomorrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would...
...equilibrium. The cost of medicines and most industrial goods declined. The price tags on television sets went down 13%, on washing machines 17%, and on vacuum cleaners 15%. At the same time, however, food prices were drastically increased. Beef went up 19%, assuming that one could find it, flour 16% and salted herring 19%. The cost of ersatz coffee nearly doubled. The government also announced that wages would be frozen...
Valuable as these specialties are, more people may love the book for its original, easy soups, its recipes for two sinful chocolate cakes and its truly triumphant vegetable dishes. In fact, Julia's conquest of zucchini may be more influential than her mastery of all-purpose flour. By grating zucchini, she has eliminated the old bland, waterlogged mess and, in effect, created a solid new vegetable with an elusive, nutty flavor...
...entire section on curry. In addition, there is a chocolate roll that is lighter than either of Julia's cakes and several quick cheese concoctions. They are all reasonably easy because, their inventor notes wryly, "I am not trying to make Arab bread with American all-purpose flour...