Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardy Martha Truman had rallied briefly when her son first arrived, again when Mary Margaret canceled her Pittsburgh concert to fly to Grandview, Mo. Mrs. Truman had pork chops for lunch one day, fried chicken for dinner the next, wheat cakes and syrup for breakfast. With all her determined firmness, she announced: "I'm going to get better tomorrow...
...boiling ordinary milk, then cooling it, and running it through a strainer. It comes out thick, and white, and very sour; and some people who are not from the Balkans have trouble stomaching it. Baklava, a doughy kind of pastry, makes its appearance in layered squares covered with syrup. It is as extremely sweet at the other is sour...
...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
...most radical of Ayres's ideas is for Vermonters to stop eating their own syrup. He doesn't think they can afford to, not as long as they need the sugar money to buy a new plow point or improve their stock...
Some Vermonters agree that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...