Schools testing in England looks problematic. As ever, kids have to go to school to get their test, creating a potential superspreader event even if they send home anyone with a positive test. The tests will be lateral flow (higher false negative rate, especially with Omicron). Also, 'at least one' test is being offered for an unspecified period, so that means next week there may be no testing. I can understand the desire to keep schools open, but it lacks in execution. At least masks are back on the table (or rather back on faces).
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Coronavirus discussion thread - NO POLITICS, or "POLITICS by PROXY"
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Hi folks
great with strawberries!
not a bad idea (great with strawberries too!!!)
Why not?
Nope but I like to cook!
Peel the rhubarb and cut it in pieces (half an inch).
Wash the strawberries and cut them in halves.
Caramelize the rhubarb with a tablespoon of honey (in a pan)
Flame it with cognac or sherry, deglace (after half a minute) with orange juice (don't make a soup!)
(orange juice with a dash of lemon is even better)
Let it cook (low temperature!) for another 4 minutes.
Let it cool down then add the strawberries, a hint of salt (fleur de sel is best!)
and a teaspoon of olive oil (not kidding!!!)
decorate with mint leaves (a few dark chocolate flakes on top are not mandatory but awesome)
bonne appétit
Wise
Dang, now I am hungry!
Rhubarb is to be eaten either raw, dipped in sugar, or boiled and put into a crumble with custard. All other ways are foreign and wrong. I am sure Britain must have invented rhubarb.
Some differing opinions on the 'Swedish model', some saying that the UK should have used this rather than lock downs, other modelling suggesting twice the death toll if that had happened. Maybe Swedes are just better at voluntarily locking down than the British. Something to do with saunas and birch twigs, perhaps?
Indeed, but it still has its adherents in the UK, with England trying to do it even now, with some modifications. Less so Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, that have put more significant restrictions on events (hence I am not sure my event in early February will actually happen and/or at full capacity).
In other UK news, reduced train travel in Scotland due to so many train staff having COVID.
To paraphrase 1966: they think it's all over, and it's not now.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
You are on really thin ice there, bub. Sweet and fruity stay away from pizza or the decline of civilization becomes inevitable.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
It is first thing in the morning when I should be drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. Instead, there is the horror of fruit on pizza followed by thoughts of Swedish models. My brain is having whiplash. What a way to start a Monday!
What were we talking about, again? Oh, right, a pandemic. Time for coffee. At least last night's rain seems to have mostly eliminated ice on roads and sidewalks around here.
pull it out of the ground, shake off the dirt, break off the leaf, dip in sugar, eat.
We had a saying around here- when you drove your vehicle off the road (intentionally or unintentionally), you were “heading for the rhubarb”.
Coffee time 
Is there anything you guys don't boil?
rhubarb compote combined with custard: makes a rhubarb fool
Yes* and no! (* = see below)
The word rhubarb is likely to have derived in the 14th century from the Old French rubarbe, which came from the Latin rheubarbarum and Greek rha barbaron, meaning 'foreign rhubarb'
The first european country cultivating rhubarb was Russia! (16th century)
It came later to the Netherlands and France (early 18th century)
Finnaly the rhubarb conquered the UK (mid 18th century)
btw: Rhubarb was grown in Scotland from at least 1786 (Botanical Garden in Edinburgh)
The plants were grown for medicinal purposes. (the roots were used not the stalks)
*The use of rhubarb stalks as food is a relatively recent innovation. This usage was first recorded in late 18th to 19th-century England after affordable sugar became more widely available.
It is unclear if Nelson ever had a rhubarb crumble!
greetings
wise
Is there anything you guys don't boil?
rhubarb compote combined with custard: makes a rhubarb fool
Yes* and no! (* = see below)
The word rhubarb is likely to have derived in the 14th century from the Old French rubarbe, which came from the Latin rheubarbarum and Greek rha barbaron, meaning 'foreign rhubarb'
The first european country cultivating rhubarb was Russia! (16th century)
It came later to the Netherlands and France (early 18th century)
Finnaly the rhubarb conquered the UK (mid 18th century)
btw: Rhubarb was grown in Scotland from at least 1786 (Botanical Garden in Edinburgh)
The plants were grown for medicinal purposes. (the roots were used not the stalks)
*The use of rhubarb stalks as food is a relatively recent innovation. This usage was first recorded in late 18th to 19th-century England after affordable sugar became more widely available.
It is unclear if Nelson ever had a rhubarb crumble!
greetings
wise
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Hi folks
Yep!
There is no Swedish model!!!!
They have gone from "let it spread and see what happens" to
"do what everybody else does and see what happens"
That's not what I would call a model!
What the UK and Sweden have in common is a high death toll in nursing- and retirement homes.
It's a bit late to modify that!
Wise
Yep!
There is no Swedish model!!!!
They have gone from "let it spread and see what happens" to
"do what everybody else does and see what happens"
That's not what I would call a model!
What the UK and Sweden have in common is a high death toll in nursing- and retirement homes.
It's a bit late to modify that!
Wise
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"One little thing can revive a guy,
and that is a piece of rhubarb pie.
Serve it up, nice and hot.
Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought."
---Prairie Home Companion
Sorry...couldn't resist...
Back to our regularly scheduled thread, still in progress...
"One little thing can revive a guy,
and that is a piece of rhubarb pie.
Serve it up, nice and hot.
Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought."
---Prairie Home Companion
Sorry...couldn't resist...
Back to our regularly scheduled thread, still in progress...
I am not so sure about this
. The german translation Rhabarber sounds quite similar. It's quite commonly used in Germany. My grandma used to make Rhabarberkuchen (rhubarb cake on a baking tablet) out of it which I loved as a kid. Tastes great !
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Here is a recipe in german. I am sure there are also english language recipes available on the web.
edit: please let me known in case you need a translation.
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It's the same podcast guy who was spouting misinformation a few pages ago. Ignore him.
B.
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
Yummy. I have a rhubarb patch in my garden. I should try that in the spring. Wonderful plant. Just keeps coming back every year like clockwork.I am not so sure about this
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Between my rudimentary German and Google translate, I pretty much figured it out. Vanilla sugar is a new one on me, but I educated myself on it, so good to go.
