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canetoad

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22. I learned the imperial system

Reply to mercuryblues (Reply #10)

Mon Dec 24, 2018, 03:10 AM

Dec 2018

As a kid in the UK; drams, pounds, ounces, stones, chains, furlongs, bushells and pecks. Been using metric so long that I naturally think in it, but was always baffled when I saw a recipe calling for a stick of butter!

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An underrated holiday dessert and not too hard to make.....Bananas Foster. [View all] dameatball Dec 2018 OP

So, how do you make it? Ohiogal Dec 2018 #1

Here. I had to look it up canetoad Dec 2018 #5

1 stick of butter is 1/4 lb mercuryblues Dec 2018 #6

Thank you! canetoad Dec 2018 #7

1 lb mercuryblues Dec 2018 #10

I learned the imperial system canetoad Dec 2018 #22

Never thought of this as a holiday dessert. dhol82 Dec 2018 #2

Yummy.. pbmus Dec 2018 #3

. Iggo Dec 2018 #4

No objection, but what makes it a "holiday" dessert? brooklynite Dec 2018 #8

Probably the high calorie decadence and fancy flambe presentation. I've never had it, myself. nt Hekate Dec 2018 #14

It's enough of a pain in the ass to make it that most people won't except for the holidays jmowreader Dec 2018 #20

I love it with eggnog ice cream mercuryblues Dec 2018 #9

So delicious! Cracklin Charlie Dec 2018 #11

Me too. The flaming process transforms the lowly banana fleur-de-lisa Dec 2018 #17

There a non-alcoholic version TlalocW Dec 2018 #12

The only non-alcoholic food I know that lights on fire is marshmallows. But you could caramelize ... Hekate Dec 2018 #13

I'm a magician TlalocW Dec 2018 #15

I want to come see that Hekate Dec 2018 #16

It's non-alcoholic by the time you're done with it jmowreader Dec 2018 #19

No chemical process is 100% TlalocW Dec 2018 #21

Flame can not burn off all the alcohol. LakeSuperiorView Dec 2018 #23

A New Orleans tradition. Soooooo good! nolabear Dec 2018 #18