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*blinks* I think JK may have read Molesworth. I'm flipping through How to be Topp by Willans and Searle (the chapter titled "Akquire Culture and Keep the Brane Clean" in specific) and I come across Molesworth talking about Latin plays. He puts one down for our enjoyment:

THE HOGWARTS
by
MARCUS PLAUTUS MOLESWORTHUS


Just about indesputable proof, I'd say. Eheu!




Strawberry mousse (according to me)
Ingredients:
1 punnet of strawberries
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg white
300mL container of cream

  1. Pull green tufty things off strawberries. Wash the berries. Puree them in food processor (or with handy cat).
  2. Put sugar, egg white and cream into large bowl.
  3. Realise that it was supposed to be sugar, egg white and strawberries in bowl. Cream is added later. Swear.
  4. Eat dinner. Drive to shops to purchase new container of cream.
  5. Put sugar and egg white into large mixing bowl. Begin to whip. Wonder why such a small quantity.
  6. Realise self is utterly stupid; add strawberries. Beat until it's *ahem* hard. You know what I mean.
  7. Get small bowl out to pour cream into so as to fold it into pink mess in large bowl.
  8. Have sister intervene and wonder whether one is supposed to whip the cream first.
  9. Scoff at sister.
  10. Check recipe.
  11. Note that though recipe has no step saying "whip the cream", recipe actually says "300 mL cream, whipped". Swear. Thank the gods that sister put her interfering nose in again.
  12. Whip cream.
  13. Fold cream into pink slathery stuff. Transfer into dishes for serving, or put in fridge for later.

Date: 2004-01-14 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sidherian.livejournal.com
Puree them in food processor (or with handy cat).

Urgently require instructions re cat pureeing fruit. Have only managed in 14 years to teach cat to lick between toes. (mine, that is)

Date: 2004-01-14 04:14 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (stoopid)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Of course, the cat needs to have a handy stomach bug. And you have to not mind a slight taste of digestive tract.

Date: 2004-01-14 01:41 pm (UTC)

Date: 2004-01-14 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nys.livejournal.com
i can relate to mood...
mousse is irresistable. Could not stop despite full stomach. Feel bloated

Date: 2004-01-14 05:29 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (evil revolutionary)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Mmm. Evil mousse.

Date: 2004-01-14 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yuki-onna.livejournal.com
Gulp! I LOVE your Classical Geek icon! May I take, with credit?

Date: 2004-01-14 04:05 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (sorry)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
I'd rather you didn't, as I'm rather fond of it. But I'd be happy to make you a similar one. Is there a particular image you'd like me to use? Otherwise I'll find one for you, if you'd like.

Date: 2004-01-14 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yuki-onna.livejournal.com
Ohh! I'd love you to! I'm a classicist, so...I freak over stuff like that.

And now my brain just went to a scary Eowyn/Odysseus place..."I am no man!"

Ahem. Sorry.

I trust you!

Date: 2004-01-14 04:20 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (classical geek)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Heh. My classics teacher told me that that one was a double pun, because the word for "no man" sounds a lot like the word for cunning intelligence (metis).

Date: 2004-01-14 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yuki-onna.livejournal.com
The word is "outis" which contains some of the letters of Odysseus, too.

Date: 2004-01-14 04:35 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (thoughtful)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Ah, very clever. I've done your icon, by the way, and emailed it to the address in your profile. :)

Date: 2004-01-14 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yuki-onna.livejournal.com
Thanks! Nifty to the nth!

Date: 2004-01-14 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spirail.livejournal.com
not proof enought for me!!!

*smacks self in head and runs off to eat a cactus*

Date: 2004-01-14 04:34 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (randall)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
There, there. *feeds you anti-psychotic medication*

Date: 2004-01-14 04:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spirail.livejournal.com
ahhhh.... genoside!!!...dont make me eat the poor kritters mrs pelican!!!

Date: 2004-01-14 04:59 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (mexican hitler)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
The little pink mousse fairy on your shoulder.

Date: 2004-01-14 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spirail.livejournal.com
ahhh, thankyou little froggie

Date: 2004-01-14 08:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-maenad.livejournal.com
Check out [livejournal.com profile] huskyteer's website for a superb Potter/Molesworth crossover. (And she's a classicist too, as am I; found you via [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes).

Date: 2004-01-15 05:07 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (curious)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
ho for hoggwarts? I liked to it about three entries back, but thanks. :)

Date: 2004-01-14 09:24 am (UTC)

Date: 2004-01-15 05:07 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (fisheh!)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
And it's all utterly, utterly true. *grins*

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