-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 DD> 1959: PROFESSOR INVENTS MACHINE-HARVESTABLE TOMATO

 DD> 1960: GELATIN MAKES ITS WAY INTO EVERY MEAL

 JW> These may be mileposts but they sure weren't high points!

Sometimes the road is going through a "vast wasteland" (tm Newton Minow)
so the markers aren't for anything game changing.  Bv)=

My next series will have to do with something with which you are more 
familiar - state's most popular cocktails.
 
 JW> One more fritter thing ...

 JW> MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

 JW>       Title: Nigerian Akara Fritters
 JW>  Categories: African, Beans, Vegetarian, Fritters
 JW>       Yield: 6 Servings

With the Brood X Cicadas due to emerge this year in billions and billions
this recipe can use them in place of the grasshoppers .....

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      Title: Grasshopper Fritters
 Categories: Exotics, Dairy, Breads
      Yield: 12 Servings
 
    3/4 c  Sifted flour
      1 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Salt
    3/4 c  Milk
      1 lg Egg; slightly beaten
      1 c  Grasshoppers
      1 pt Heavy cream; beaten stiff
 
  Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl.
  Slowly add milk and beat until smooth. Add egg and beat
  well.
  
  Pluck off grasshopper wings and legs, heads optional. Dip
  insects in egg batter and deep fry. Salt and serve.
  
  Recipe: Ronald Taylor's "Butterflies in My Stomach"
  
  From: http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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... When life gives you plagues, make fried locusts

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