@derobert You could always but a quality commercial starter. You have mentioned your Amazon habit before, and I cannot imagine they are terribly expensive :-)
....why is every cheeseless lasagna recipe also meatless... and everyone goes "but it's not lasagna without cheese!"... You'd think a layered cassarole of meat, sauce, and flat noodles would be tasty enough on its own :/
I'm beginning to think cheese is an addictive substance most people are hooked on as small children
You never hear people rave about how they can't live without pasta, for example. Even people who will buy cheap wine happily will spend money on good cheese. It's weird.
Aha! We should prepare a large supply of cheese, so that we can get the Thetans addicted to it, and then they'll stop causing harm and we'll have world peace!
Well yes. But you get into scifi and then you see stuff by Hubbard and then you browse wikpedia and then you go "holy shit, wtf?" and then you grab some friends and have a good laugh... and then Tom Cruise
@SAJ14SAJ The chemist/pharmacist connection has driven me nuts for years! I have lots of old baking books that will call for getting all kinds of specialty ingredients "available from any pharmacist", but they're certainly not available at a pharmacy anymore!
@SAJ14SAJ I was just assuming that the recipe is really old since her she said her father wrote it years ago, and her comment also says that 'chemists' no longer provide those services.
and I'm not sure what her father said that would be that antiquated?
I've certainly never seen it, but I can vouch that it seems to be fairly common in old (but not that old) recipes
and I don't know about England, but I know in France, pharmacies tend to have a lot more herbal and homeopathic stuff, so maybe they're more likely to have tinctures and whatnot that can also be used for flavoring?
which also refers to getting flavoring oils from pharmacies. I wonder if it's something that used to be so common that the language has managed to hang on long after the practice ended?
I was given a lot of "Projects for Kids" books when I was little by a great uncle, and it was very frustrating because so many of the instructions called for "glycerine, available from your pharmacist" or "balsa wood sheets, available at any five-and-dime", which did me absolutely no good as there was no current equivalent