Sugar!

[resonant]

Anybody want to give me your most wonderful recipe for a Valentine's day dessert?

Ideally one that doesn't make huge quantities, so that the three of us can eat it all on the day itself and not have leftovers sitting around tempting us later?

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

*g* Yes. While Elizabethan mincemeat was, in fact, chopped beef mixed with fruit and spices (and while modern mincemeat does sometimes include suet for richness), mine was just finely chopped dried fruit and orange rind, soaked in apple cider and brandy with spices.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, quite recently, I was in a discussion of the early usage of the word 'meat' and the way it changed from meaning 'things that can be eaten' to meaning 'specifically food made of animal flesh,' with a detour through Genesis (He giveth them their meat in due season) and Robert Burns (Some hae meat and canna eat, etc.) -- but now I can't remember whether this conversation happened online or in real life.