"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Prayers sent out for your daughter, Leghog. I hope she can still have an enjoyable holiday! You too!
 
Didn't come across this till now leghog, prayers for your daughter and complete recovery.

The power of prayer is unmatched:thumbup:
 
My son made a cobbler with pineapple, papaya, and coconut. Walnuts in the crust. It's INCREDIBLY GOOD!
 
Alas I have only ever heard of cobbler as spoken of in American colloquialism.
Please describe a basic cobbler.
I might add (and our British chums will back me up here I think) that cobblers has a much different and completely non -appetising meaning for us.
Put it this way -it's not something you would normally eat -maybe if you were a kangaroo shooter:(
Hey why don't I google it? sorry just got in from night shift.
And Good Luck for your Daughters Op.:thumbup:
 
meako said:
I might add (and our British chums will back me up here I think) that cobblers has a much different and completely non -appetising meaning for us.
Put it this way -it's not something you would normally eat -maybe if you were a kangaroo shooter:(
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LOL! :D

Here's what the BBC has to offer Meako ;)

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?query=cobbler

And from Wikipedia: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?query=cobbler

Cobbler refers to a variety of dishes, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom, consisting of a fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or pie crust before being baked. Some cobbler recipes, especially in the American South, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both top and bottom crust.

Cobblers originated in the early British American colonies. English settlers were unable to make traditional suet puddings due to lack of suitable ingredients and cooking equipment [Cooking equipment for an 18th or 19th C english pudding consisted of a piece of (usually) cotton cloth that could be painted with a flour and water mixture to make it fat/waterproof and a large pot or kettle in which a bundle consisting of the above cloth wrapped around a mixture of suet + ingredients (flour, flavourings) could be boiled. Any household which did laundry had the requisite equipment.] so instead covered a stewed filling with a layer of uncooked plain biscuits or dumplings, fitted together. The origin of the name cobbler is uncertain, although it may be related to the now archaic word cobeler, meaning "wooden bowl".
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Thanks Jack:) leghogs cobbler certainly has a quartet of my favourite stuff in it.
remember the python skin?turned out OK in the end.
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BTW-"cobblers awls" is the rhyming slang
 
Jack Black said:
LOL! :D

Here's what the BBC has to offer Meako ;)

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?query=cobbler

And from Wikipedia: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?query=cobbler
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My personal theory involves a cobber at his last, working on a shoe’s sole. Which means he’s seeing the shoe upside down, sole side up.

A culinary cobbler turns a pie upside down. There is no crust on the bottom. All the crust on top. Just like the cobbler’s upside down shoe.

I have exactly zero evidence in favor of this proposition.

Among existing theories, the one that makes the most sense to me involves dropping lumps of biscuit dough on top of the filling before baking. By the time the cobbler is done, the biscuits have expanded into a pavée of biscuit crust.

Just like a cobblestone street.
 
Nice work on that python skin Meako :thumbup: Have you decided what you're going to do with it?

Hard luck Paul :thumbup:

Good theory Raymond :) I have no idea! :D
 
Any time now then Paul. Hope all goes well for mother and baby.
Jack I think hat bands are probably the best thing for it. It is quite a flimsy material. So purely decorative.
I'd like to send some to you guys for hat bands but I'll hazard a guess and say that would be a big customs no no.
 
meako said:
Any time now then Paul. Hope all goes well for mother and baby.
Jack I think hat bands are probably the best thing for it. It is quite a flimsy material. So purely decorative.
I'd like to send some to you guys for hat bands but I'll hazard a guess and say that would be a big customs no no.
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I think you could safely say that. Thanks buddy Claire is doing fine but is keen to have baby emerge now, she's rather uncomfortable.

Pity about the rugby today, I thought you were hard done by some odd refereeing decisions. But ultimately outdone by a malfunctioning scrum set piece.
 
meako said:
Jack I think hat bands are probably the best thing for it. It is quite a flimsy material. So purely decorative.
I'd like to send some to you guys for hat bands but I'll hazard a guess and say that would be a big customs no no.
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Thanks for the kind thought my friend, but I think you're probably right about that :rolleyes:

pmew said:
Claire is doing fine but is keen to have baby emerge now, she's rather uncomfortable.
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Thinking of you all Paul :thumbup:
 
The best to you and Claire, Paul!
Hope the birth is trouble-free!
(Say, did that knife ever get to you??)

Hope all goes smoothly tomorrow Leghog!! My prayers are for your daughter, and you!
 
waynorth said:
The best to you and Claire, Paul!
Hope the birth is trouble-free!
(Say, did that knife ever get to you??)

Hope all goes smoothly tomorrow Leghog!! My prayers are for your daughter, and you!
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Aha! Would that be this one? Knowledge of which you denied...



Or this beauty which I now carry (ahem on Claire's behalf) on match days...



Paul
 
Come on Paul -give the old guy a break.
We all get forgetful at times:p
Meako tip:
Take Claire out for a nice hot curry and a bottle of red.Home made curry is fine.
Then call the midwives.
It's worked for me on 3 separate occasions with two different women.

I haven't seen the match yet but read all the blatherings in the paper yesterday.
The wallabies need a bit more mongrel in the forwards that's what I'm hearing.
As with so many rugby tests -a lot hinges on who the ref is.
 
OOOOps! Forgot to log out of Evan's account. :o

I'm borrowing Evan's grinder at the moment for a couple of my forged knives!
 
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