JimBowie1958
Old Fogey
- Sep 25, 2011
- 63,590
- 16,838
- 2,220
- Thread starter
- #101
Shoot, free drinks?Anything with bacon is perfection.....except kale.
I can eat kale, if it is part of something that covers up the taste.
I am, however, reminded of an old Sylvia cartoon:
1st Lady: "I found the perfect receipt for zucchini!"
2nd Lady: "What is it?"
1st Lady: "You mix it with the yogurt and throw it out of the window."
"Receipt" huh?
That's a waste of yogurt. Mix equal parts (plain) yogurt and mango puree, sprinkle in some cardamom, and you have a delicious mango lassi.
I modernized my post for you. Receipt also means recipe in old English - a bit of which I've been reading lately.
Receipt is an old form that means the same as recipe. Both derive from Latin recipere, to receive or take. Receipt was first used in medieval English as a formula or prescription for a medicinal preparation (Chaucer is the first known user, in the Canterbury Tales of about 1386). The sense of “a written statement saying that money or goods have been received” only arrived at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
World Wide Words: Receipt versus recipe
Oboy, a woman into etymology, hubba hubba.![]()
My point on mango lassi stands. And I might add, yum.
Drinks at your place, then....if you can send the Learjet.
I might take Pogo off my ignore list for that.....nah.