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Beard on Bread (Persimmon)

  • 1.75 cups sifted flour
  • 0.75 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 0.5 cup melted unsalted butter and cooled to room temperature
  • 2 large eggs, at room temperature, lightly beaten
  • 1/3 cup Cognac, bourbon or whiskey
  • 1 cup persimmon puree (from about 2 squishy-soft Hachiya persimmons)
  • 1 cup walnuts or pecans, toasted and
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2019-12-07

Non-Conforming

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best,
to make you everybody else,
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.
Does this sound dismal?
It isn’t. 
It’s the most wonderful
…
2019-03-15

Culture

Finland has a ministry of education and culture?

Or as someone said: Culture is education in practice…

2019-01-21

Birthdays

Our threads sometimes tend to become monotonous here

As we celebrate the various birthdays and other life markers dear

But let it not be said

That we stinted on any one of them

And when we are finally wise and …

2014-12-26

A hostel lunch: April 24, 2014

Quick update: Chini, Ghode, Bha, Nagesh and I had lunch on Friday. Varun was missing — he claims that he was grilling burgers at his company picnic.
Unlike the past few years, when our lunches were always held at Chaat …

2014-04-24