About the Not Really 6 x 6's

Aud, instead of your "cook from the bottom" expression, Americans would say "cook from scratch". I think it is the best way but it seems not many "have time" to do it any more and just get something from a fast-food place.

We will have to wait for Gemini to answer the question about Icing Sugar Fudge. It is true that icing means the same as frosting on a cake.

But icing sugar is also a type of sugar (powdered). So it could be a fudge recipe made with icing sugar.

Tara

As for question #1... no, icing sugar candy/fudge is much thicker and sets harder than icing sugar ICING, which my Mom also used to make (along with putting jam between layers of cake). :o)

Thank you for the URL for the recipe... I will forward this to myself and have a look tomorrow as Matthew wants on the computer in a few minutes to chat with a girl he works with (and is interested in). ;o)

As for your children wanting recipes from their childhood, I can fully understand that... I wish I had gotten more of my parents' recipes when I had the chance. Please do (for them) *try* to write some down for them... find out which recipes they really want (you may be swamped with a LOT of requests, but at least you'll know that you gave them what they really wanted. ;o)

I am still trying to round up as many recipes as I can that my parents used (my Dad *did* write some of them out), and when I get them all together, I hope to put them all together in a book/folder form and give them to my sisters and brother as a memory gift. :o)

Gem

Kindred spirits.....from Coast to coast

Els

Yes indeed frustrating frustrating. In one of the recipes from an American magazine, recently I was told to use a stick of butter. Problem I buy a lbs of butter. I trooped to the store and bought a lbs of butter in sticks and did the weighing in grams of one stick wrote it in the recipe and continued on....not a small job, when it is an hour's walk to to the store, or round up my driver to get there....LOL

Els

Yes, I have often thought that, Els.

Katherine

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Yes, I wondered about that too! AUD ;-)

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Thank you, Jan, that expression sounds much better! LOL! AUD ;-))

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I will ask them, it's a sort of gift I like to give. I think it will be lots of work, and we might gain a few kg, ;-)) but I will ask them! AUD ;-)

American sizes are different than Canadian sizes in clothing... or at least they used to be. When I was 14-15 my aunt bought me a gorgeous black leather jacket that I treasured for many years. It was a size 14 US, but in Canadian sizes I wore 16-18. *shrug*

Also... British shoe sizes are different from Canadian shoe sizes. About 10 years ago I was going to send a cousin a pair of Buffalo Sandals (which I loved and wish I could find more to buy now), so she sent me her shoe size as well as an outline of her foot. Good thing she sent the outline, because if I had just sent the size she requested the sandal would not have fit her at all.

Gemini

LOL But what enjoyment you will have eating the food while working out the recipes! ;o)

Gem

In parts of Asia, people compile a cookbook of their favourite recipes when they are still alive; after they die, these are printed up and handed out to the mourners at the funeral. I think this practise is restricted to Laos, one of the countries near Thailand.

Yes I got one of those. It does help. The other thing I've did was to put a blob of nail varnish on my left thumb-nail, carefully measured to be 1/4 inch. That helps when you are doing work by hand.

It always seems a bit backwards to buy quantities of material to do patchwork: I feel I ought to be using up leftovers from dress-making. Unfortunately, I do hardly any dress-making.

LOL

Katherine

What a nice tradition. My cousin, who is a chef, did something like this at his wedding. They asked all the guests to send them their favorite family recipe and then printed up a booklet of both the couple's and the guests' favorite recipes to hand out at the wedding. Since I was a relative, many of the recipes were old family favorites which I hadn't had written down before so that was a nice added bonus.

LauraJ

Funny how we adabt, I use all metric system for sewing but always use 5/8 of an inch for seam allowance. My eye is even permanetly set for it......LOL

For finding nice pieces of material to quilt with, I have found some lovely pieces in blouses at the Sally Ann. I even found a mini skirt made out of soft suede, ( it was a size 6, so no it would never have done for me...LOL) I will use to make small machine sewn quilted bags out of. Try thrift stores and you may get a really nice surprice for lots of very nice material.

Els

Gemini, it would be lovely if we could standardize sizes for everything world wide. Strange that we have global trading, but we can't get a handle on same measurements and sizes. I find that when you buy clothing made in China or India, even when the size numbers are the same as in Canada, the fits are always smaller and forget it when you have breasts.....LOL

Els

This reminded me of the very first sweatsuit my parents bought me along with a pair of flannel pajamas for winter. My Dad just shook his head when I modeled them all... and my Mom and I were cracking up laughing. I am 5' 7" and at the time wasn't *too* heavy, but still somewhat overweight. Well the sweatsuit and pajamas were made in Korea or China (I can't remember which at the moment) and while they were so humongously large around that I could almost swim in them, they were SO short in the arms and legs that they came to just below my elbows and knees. ROTFL Needless to say, they were brought back to the store to exchange for proper fitting ones.

Gem

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I know what you mean. I wish I still had some of my mother's cotton dresses from my childhood. Some of those fabrics were fantastic.

I hope to do a bit more in the near future. Mind you, I hardly ever wear dresses any more, even in summer. I find separates much more flexible - you can always jazz up a good skirt or pair of trousers. And I can't remember he last time I wore formal wear, either.

Eimear, living the casual life!