> > > until the juice gets fizzy.  
> > Pretty much, and, when one lived within ten miles of
> > Brooksby Farm, the oldest municipal farm in the US,
> > which pressed its own cider, it became a snap.
> It used to happen by accident until my state at least forced everyone to
> pasteurize the cider. 

A large factor is that when the orchards started
allowing PYO, there was a certain lack of control
of access, especially the city slickers whose
attention to hygiene may not have been too terrific.
A way to fix the pasteurization issue would be to
add a touch of active yeast, preferably brewers',
but perhaps any.

> > > OTOH I got the measles vaccine.  There's nothing out there for this thing.
> > Eeh, I got the measles about the time my father got 
> > a '58 Chevy.
> I'm not sure my dad ever had a Chevy back then.  My parents didn't meet
> until 1964. 

The last time I drove a car for a measurable 
distance was 1968. There were moments, now that I 
recall, when I got behind the wheel to help get a 
vehicle out of a snowdrift, for example, up through 
the '70s.

> > nobody so far has figured out that if it has these
> > emollients to protect your skin, those same things
> > are going to protect the membranes of the germs.
> The aloe in the real thing ought not.  The glycerin... not so sure. 

I figure that if it prevents damage to your tissues,
it might well prevent damage to other things, too.

> > grass with my voice at a foot, I do hve friends who
> > have filled Symphony Hall with noise, er, sound.
> It depends on the singer.  I used to manage to push out a little volume
> here and there and my operatically trained friends can really crank it up. 

I'm not so fond of those big voices but was paid 
to endure them on occasion.

> > though; he married for the first time when he was 90, 
> > to a woman 40 years younger.
> At that point I guess he figured if it was a mistake he wouldn't be around
> long enough to find out!

They were inseparable, so the story goes, for a
decade plus, but that might have been because he
couldn't hobble away fast enough.

> > Though when I'm in the city and get a whiff, it
> > brings a kind of nostalgia - certainly more than do
> > the smells of garbage, puke, and pee.
> It just turns me mildly green.  

Mildly green is preferable to many other city smells.

> > already there, though not necessarily in doses nocuous 
> > enough for normal people.
> No idea.  In the places where staff quarantined themselves on site, no
> virus.  

That is different from what other places report,
but of course other places could be lying.

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      Title: New York Rye Bread ABM
 Categories: Cyberealm, Breads
      Yield: 1 loaf

  1 1/2 ts Dry yeast
      2 c  Bread flour
      1 c  Rye flour
      2 tb Sugar
      1 tb Melted butter
      3 ts Caraway seeds
    1/2 ts Salt
    7/8 c  Warm water

  Add the ingredients to the pan in the order listed. Select "white
  bread". Select "medium color". Press start.

  From Mike Coticchio. Posted by Joel Ehrlich.

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