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Oh, come on!
How is it possible to screw up *rice krispie treats*? (Well, cheerios treats actually, but the principle's the same.) Six year olds can make them!
...I've decided to blame the marshmallows. The marshmallows were too old. I was only making them in the first place in order to use up the elderly marshmallows.
Ah well. I needed an excuse to scrub down the entire kitchen anyway. And I did get a lumpy thing that's a third the size the recipe called for and is closer to the "popcorn ball" end of the scale than the "rice krispie treat" end, but still nummy. And some quite excellent homemade caramel chews.
Moral of the story: next time you need to use up baking sweets, just go right for the caramel and cut out the middle-man. You always end up there *anyway*.
In other news, have been playing with USB turntable and record collection. The first one I ripped was "When Dalliance Was In Flower, Vol. III" by Ed McCurdy, which is a 1959 record of bawdy British folksongs, mostly from the early-18th-century collection "Wit And Mirth or Pills To Purge Melancholy". It's not musically brilliant - standard male singer accompanied by banjo and guitar. And it's both a lot less witty and a lot less bawdy than your typical bawdy folksong of today. But it's very, very early-60s-folk-movement. And some of them are catchy. (Especially "Bees? In my cunny? It's more likely than you think!") Anyway I couldn't find the tracks easily available online anywhere, except at collector's prices on LP, so here, share! (I may attempt to set up a torrent later. But that scares me.)
ed mccurdy - the yeoman of kent.mp3
ed mccurdy - the shepherd.mp3
ed mccurdy - old brass to mend.mp3
ed mccurdy - celia.mp3
ed mccurdy - as i walked in the woods.mp3
ed mccurdy - the merry wedding.mp3
ed mccurdy - while alexis lay prest.mp3
ed mccurdy - how happy's the miller.mp3
ed mccurdy - the hive of bees.mp3
ed mccurdy - the sound country lass.mp3
ed mccurdy - she rose to let me in.mp3
ed mccurdy -The Country Wake.mp3
ed mccurdy - pillycock.mp3
ed mccurdy - when flora had on her new gown.mp3
ed mccurdy - the spinning wheel.mp3
ed mccurdy - the end.mp3
right-click save, zip contains all 16 songs, cover jpg, and transcription of the back of the case.
The case had some pretty severe water damage, so I did the best I could with the cover and the text. The record was in good condition, though. I did mess with noise removal and click reduction on some of these tracks, and then decided it didn't really need it. You can tell me if you can tell the difference.
And yes, there was a Dalliance 1-2 and a Son of Dalliance, but they haven't shown up in any of my local thrift shops yet. Sorry.
...I've decided to blame the marshmallows. The marshmallows were too old. I was only making them in the first place in order to use up the elderly marshmallows.
Ah well. I needed an excuse to scrub down the entire kitchen anyway. And I did get a lumpy thing that's a third the size the recipe called for and is closer to the "popcorn ball" end of the scale than the "rice krispie treat" end, but still nummy. And some quite excellent homemade caramel chews.
Moral of the story: next time you need to use up baking sweets, just go right for the caramel and cut out the middle-man. You always end up there *anyway*.
In other news, have been playing with USB turntable and record collection. The first one I ripped was "When Dalliance Was In Flower, Vol. III" by Ed McCurdy, which is a 1959 record of bawdy British folksongs, mostly from the early-18th-century collection "Wit And Mirth or Pills To Purge Melancholy". It's not musically brilliant - standard male singer accompanied by banjo and guitar. And it's both a lot less witty and a lot less bawdy than your typical bawdy folksong of today. But it's very, very early-60s-folk-movement. And some of them are catchy. (Especially "Bees? In my cunny? It's more likely than you think!") Anyway I couldn't find the tracks easily available online anywhere, except at collector's prices on LP, so here, share! (I may attempt to set up a torrent later. But that scares me.)
ed mccurdy - the yeoman of kent.mp3
ed mccurdy - the shepherd.mp3
ed mccurdy - old brass to mend.mp3
ed mccurdy - celia.mp3
ed mccurdy - as i walked in the woods.mp3
ed mccurdy - the merry wedding.mp3
ed mccurdy - while alexis lay prest.mp3
ed mccurdy - how happy's the miller.mp3
ed mccurdy - the hive of bees.mp3
ed mccurdy - the sound country lass.mp3
ed mccurdy - she rose to let me in.mp3
ed mccurdy -The Country Wake.mp3
ed mccurdy - pillycock.mp3
ed mccurdy - when flora had on her new gown.mp3
ed mccurdy - the spinning wheel.mp3
ed mccurdy - the end.mp3
right-click save, zip contains all 16 songs, cover jpg, and transcription of the back of the case.
The case had some pretty severe water damage, so I did the best I could with the cover and the text. The record was in good condition, though. I did mess with noise removal and click reduction on some of these tracks, and then decided it didn't really need it. You can tell me if you can tell the difference.
And yes, there was a Dalliance 1-2 and a Son of Dalliance, but they haven't shown up in any of my local thrift shops yet. Sorry.
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I needed a new turntable anyway, and the USB ones seem to actually be the *easiest* to get these days anyway, so.
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(Anonymous) 2008-07-31 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)You probably have the Hesperus recording of much of the same material (or at least, stuff from the same source) -- "My Thing Is My Own" -- and the Baltimore Consort one, "Art of the Bawdy Song" but this looks more exciting because it's more folky-style than academic style.. it's nice to see that kind of stuff from the beginning of the early music revival!
-Aaron
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Looking at Amazon, though, it doesn't look like either of those have any of these tracks on them! So new songs either way.
Thanks for the post!
(Anonymous) 2008-09-01 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)I'm a musician and used to perform Pillycock in a folk duo. This is wonderful music.
Have you heard any of Oscar Brand's Bawdy Ballads, they are a hoot, too.