Happy September with Alfie Hole and Keum-Bee Lim.

Happy September with Alfie Hole and Keum-Bee Lim.
"Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut" Mary Berry

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Sherry Trifle Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle: Michelangelo

Sherry Trifle Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle: Michelangelo
The earliest use of the name trifle was in a recipe for a thick cream flavored with sugar, ginger, and rosewater, in Thomas Dawson's 1585 book of English cookery The Good Huswifes Jewell.

Trifle evolved from a similar dessert known as a fool and originally the two names were used interchangeably.
Jelly is first recorded as part of the recipe in later editions of Hannah Glasse's eighteenth-century book The Art of Cookery

In her recipe she instructed using hartshorn or bones of calves feet as the base ingredient (to supply gelatin) for the jelly.

The fruit and sponge layers are suspended in fruit-flavoured jelly, and these ingredients are usually arranged to produce three or four layers.

The contents of a trifle are highly variable; many varieties exist, some foregoing fruit entirely and instead using other ingredients such as chocolate, coffee or vanilla.

Mrs Beeton’s Trifle Recipe taken from Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, first published in 1861.

For the whip:
1 pint of cream
3oz sugar
2 egg whites
small glass sherry

For the trifle:
1 pint custard
6 small sponge cakes
12 macaroons
2 dozen ratafias
2oz sweet almonds
lemon rind
layer of jam
1/2 pint sherry
6 tbsp brandy

(Sufficient for 1 trifle)

1. The whip to lay over the top of the trifle should be made the day before it is required for the table, as the flavour is better and it is much more solid than when prepared the same day.
Put into a large bowl the pounded sugar, the whites of the eggs, which should be beaten to a stiff froth, a glass of sherry or sweet wine, and the cream.

2. Whisk these ingredients well in a cool place, and take off the froth with a skimmer as fast as it rises, and put it on a sieve to drain; continue the whisking till there is sufficient of the whip, which must be put away in a cool place to drain.

3. The next day, place the sponge cakes, macaroons and ratafias at the bottom of a trifle dish; pour over them 1/2 pint of sherry or sweet wine, mixed with 6 tablespoons of brandy, and should this proportion of wine not be found quite sufficient, add a little more, as the cakes should be well soaked.
Over the cakes put the grated lemon rind, the sweet almonds, blanched and cut into strips, and a layer of raspberry or strawberry jam.

4. Make a good custard using 8 eggs to the pint of milk, and let this cool a little; then pour it over the cakes etc.
The whip being made the day previously, and the trifle prepared, there remains nothing to do now but heap the whip lightly over the top: this should stand as high as possible, and it may be garnished with strips of bright currant jelly, crystallised sweetmeats, or flowers; the small coloured comfits are sometimes used for the purpose of garnishing a trifle, but they are now considered rather old-fashioned.

Average cost, with cream at 1s. per pint, 5s. 6d. Seasonable at any time. ;)

Talking the Talk by the The Warheads "When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her Eyes."

Talking the Talk by the The Warheads "When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her Eyes."
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K...night of the Kali On u #SoundCloud

K...night of the Kali On u #SoundCloud
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PenaloPe On U #Soundcloud A view.tracked

PenaloPe On U #Soundcloud A view.tracked
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"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain" On U #SoundCloud

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain" On U #SoundCloud
Pied Piper ((Deep House Nu-Jazz Pioneer))
Maverick Producer, Arranger, DJ, Songwriter, Composer, Drummer, Percussionist, Audio Engineer, Remixer, Editor, Multi-Instrumentalist
(Jamming circa. 1983) Total Deep Full Length Remix
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Women of Light Fine-Art Photo and experimental Video. http://daniolivier.com

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Revival1992 Petko Turner Edit Smoke-filled #SoundCloud rooms with an amber glow

Revival1992 Petko Turner Edit Smoke-filled #SoundCloud rooms with an amber glow
Whispers in your ear while you're movin' slow
Shadows dance all across the wall
Reflections are the revival

(You can't stop when the music's on your mind)
Feel so alive

The Revival

Friends you may have
Friends you may lose
Helps a broken heart to get over the blow
Time will heal
Time will tell
Good times you call them the revival

(You can't stop when the music's on your mind)
Feel so alive

Open your heart
Let the music in
Don't take no time and you'll soon begin
Close your eyes when you start to fall
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Listenin' to the revival

Feel the music
Feel the music
Feel the music
Feel the music #AcidHouse
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Dionysus a question of balance This potent nature god, here depicted as a bull

Dionysus a question of balance This potent nature god, here depicted as a bull
was associated with horticulture
fertility, wine, festivities, intoxication and also destruction.

Dionysus started out with good intentions
as the god of vegetation.
However, things changed when he went from growing the
vine to drinking its fermented juices
party time !

The land, like Dionysus, has changed.

Here he stands, straddled between the
ancient landscapes and the irrigated
lands of intensive agriculture.
It's possible to go too far
It's possible to regain the balance.
People can change things for the better.

The Maenads (translates as "raving ones") female followers of Dionysus inspired into a state of ecstatic frenzy...

The Maenads (translates as "raving ones") female followers of Dionysus inspired into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication.
They went into the mountains at night and practiced strange rites.

German philologist Walter Friedrich Otto writes:
The god-intoxicated celebrants draw milk and honey from the streams.
They strike rocks with the thyrsus, and water gushes forth.

They lower the thyrsus to the earth, and a spring of wine bubbles up.
If they want milk, they scratch up the ground with their fingers and draw up the milky fluid.
Honey trickles down from the thyrsus made of the wood of the ivy, they gird themselves with snakes and give suck to fawns and wolf cubs as if they were infants at the breast.

Fire does not burn them.
No weapon of iron can wound them, and the snakes harmlessly lick up the sweat from their heated cheeks.

Fierce bulls fall to the ground, victims to numberless, tearing female hands, and sturdy trees are torn up by the roots with their combined efforts.

Maenads' are found the later references as priestesses of the Dionystic cult.
In the third century BC, when an Asia Minor city wanted to create a maenadic cult of Dionysus, the Delphic Oracle bid them to send to Thebes for both instruction and three professional maenads, stating, "Go to the holy plain of Thebes so that you may get maenads who are from the family of Ino, daughter of Cadmus.
They will give to you both the rites and good practices, and they will establish dance groups (thiasoi) of Bacchus [ie: Dionysus] in your city."