h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yummy - I love this time of year!


anyone?

shazz

Woohoo!!

Why not both?

&

How about + .

*warning: possible bad taste alert*

Inspired by the reawakening of this conversation I made it a point to look for fresh strawberries on my weekly visit to town for supplies. The local produce was not yet available but some good looking USA berries were, if highly priced.
I also bought a half litre of whipping cream.

But when I got home I realised I had forgotten to buy 'shortcake' and was reduced to using a chunk of banana loaf. Worse, all my vanilla extract had been used up at Xmas by a visiting do-gooder baking cookies. I had only almond extract to put in the whipping bowl.

The results were amazing. Startling, but amazing.
Strawberries on banana bread with almond flavoured whipped cream.
Try it.
peace
~jwf~

The exercise described above raised the question, "Who invented whipped cream? How? And why?"

I'm not talking about the canned stuff (which has a disturbing label that reads 'an edible oil product' in small print).

If you've ever whipped cream by hand, with a fork or whisk, you know how long it takes and how tired the wrist will become if you aren't in the habit of doing this exercise regularly. And of course we had whipped cream long before electric mixers or even mechanical ones were available. These would have been developed afterwards to ease the task of whipping.

So who could possibly have had so much time and energy on their well muscled hands to play at whipping cream long enough to discover the resulting ambrosia? A forgotten hero in the march toward civilised behavior. Some unknown genius we should all honour. But ..really, what was he thinking?

~jwf~

I could give you a list of silly things like that.

Is that a list of silly recipes? Or silly things the protoypical whipper may have been thinking? Either way, please, bring them on; I assure you mine was not a rhetorical question.

I cannot imagine why anyone might have spent that much time beating frantically on a bowl of cream in those dark days before this unlikely miracle was discovered.

Butter churning and cheese making were also probably accidental discoveries. These involve rather different procedures, but were somehow more 'inevitable', at least in their most fundamental form.

~jwf~

List of silly things the prototypical whipper may have come up with.


Like, for example, who was the first person to milk a cow and what were they thinking of when they drank it?

Do I detect a page of random questions coming on?