Happy Solstice
I am basically only on board with holidays to the extent that they are about pie. Thanksgiving? An awful lot of it is about pie. National Pie Day? Oh my yes. Christmas? It’s more about cookies than about pie. This is a problem.
What's the most festive Christmas pie?
- Eggnog meringue (aka nutmeg custard)
- Orange-chocolate meringue
- Some kind of traditional English meat pie
- Holly berry and pine nut (NB: holly is poisonous)
And a few links, none of which are about pie:
- Santa Claus Boycotts Coal
- Punk-Ass Blog explores the rheology of one of my favorite toys
- I totally failed to participate in Accretionary Wedge #4, which is all about our favorite pet rocks. D’oh!
I’m hosting next month’s carnival. I’m on the fence between themes: annoying geological misconceptions, or alternate-universe geology? Now is your chance to bribe me into deciding in your favor on this very important, weighty issue (NB: I take PayPal). Look for an official theme announcement and call for posts sometime soon.
- Ditto the December Scientiae! Er, except I’m not scheduled to host that again.
Lab Lemming wrote:
“add responce” does not actually allow one to click the button next to the new responce (in explorer).
Posted 22 Dec 2020 at 3:53 pm ¶
Lab Lemming wrote:
Also, what is the pie connection to Talk like a pie-rate day?
Oh. Duh. Never mind.
Posted 22 Dec 2020 at 3:56 pm ¶
Julian wrote:
Now you must be certain that pie is integrated properly into Pirate Day festivities! Or have you already?
(Also, as someone who once wrote a “geological history” of a totally fictional place in a series of children’s books based on the inconsistent maps printed in each volume of the series, I would be very interested to see writings on alternate universe geology.)
Posted 22 Dec 2020 at 9:28 pm ¶
des von bladet wrote:
The traditionalest Engleesh Christmas pie is the mince pie, but the mincemeat(sic) therein is not in fact made out of meat but is in fact preserved fruits of various kinds.
You can’t get them for love nor money here in the Netherlands, although to be scrupulously truthful I have offered neither, since I never liked them.
Posted 23 Dec 2020 at 9:25 am ¶
Andrew Alden wrote:
Misconceptions! Misconceptions!
Posted 27 Dec 2020 at 11:53 am ¶
Mel wrote:
Eggnog Meringue Pie? Please tell me you have a recipe… And if so, please share!
As for the next Accretionary Wedge, you pick the theme, I’ll try not to forget the deadline again ;-)
Posted 27 Dec 2020 at 2:55 pm ¶
yami wrote:
No recipe – I went with orange-chocolate meringue, which worked pretty well. But lemon meringue pies are just egg custards, and IME substituting booze for water doesn’t do anything bad to the chemistry. So I was thinking of nutmeg and whisky, but not sure if that would be too sweet without lemon.
Posted 31 Dec 2020 at 7:51 am ¶
Lab Lemming wrote:
Traditionally, mince pie is very Christmas, but this morning I had a delicious breakfast pie- egg, bacon, and tomato and a herb (coriander?) in a standard pastry- but the salt in the bacon makes the pastry extra yum.
Posted 31 Dec 2020 at 6:10 pm ¶