Glendora's Locust Biscuits

[Glendora Christianson]

Folks, did you know that Abraham's family had to eat Locust Biscuits because there wasn't very much food in the desert, but there were lots locusts? Anyway, I was having a slow baking day, so I came up with a good recipe for what may have been Abraham's favorite dish.

1/3 cup shortening
1 3/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup locusts
3/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Mix ingredients and spoon out on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for ten minutes.

PS Grass Hoppers or Almonds can be substituted for the locusts.

[eliot mayfield]

Re: Glendora's Locust Biscuits

Cicada's are coming this year I hear. Might be even better than Locust because they age much longer. But they do make so much noise.

http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/

Perhaps you should send them your recipe!

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada%20recipes.PDF

We could put all them homeless people to work gathering these critters and we could feed them too!
and here's a recipe for Cicada pie, mmmmm.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/2968023/detail.html

Cicada Pie


2 pie pastries, slightly thawed
50 female cicadas
1 pint of cream
About 2 cups of stale bread or bread crumbs
1 tsp rhubarb flavor
Soak the cicadas, bread, cream and rhubarb flavor in a bowl until softened. Prepare the pie crust. Add the cicada mixture. Lattice the second pie crust over the cicada mixture. Cook at 350 degrees until golden brown (about 11 to 14 minutes).

[Talitha]

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Oooooooh I love swapping Recipe's!!
If you have access to Chocolate there's nothing better than:

Chocolate Cricket Chip Cookies

1. 2 1/4 cup flour
2. 1 tsp. baking soda
3. 1 tsp. salt
4. 1 cup butter, softened
5. 3/4 cup sugar
6. 3/4 cup brown sugar
7. 1 tsp. vanilla
8. 2 eggs
9. 1 12-ounce chocolate chips
10. 1 cup chopped nuts
11. 1/2 cup dry-roasted crickets
12. Preheat oven to 375. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture and insects, mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Of course, if your Crickets aren't already Dry-Roasted just catch-em and cook-em anyway.


Tasty

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Glendora's Locust Biscuits

Cicada's are coming this year I hear. Might be even better than Locust because they age much longer. But they do make so much noise.

http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/

Perhaps you should send them your recipe!

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada%20recipes.PDF

We could put all them homeless people to work gathering these critters and we could feed them too!
and here's a recipe for Cicada pie, mmmmm.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/2968023/detail.html

Cicada Pie


2 pie pastries, slightly thawed
50 female cicadas
1 pint of cream
About 2 cups of stale bread or bread crumbs
1 tsp rhubarb flavor
Soak the cicadas, bread, cream and rhubarb flavor in a bowl until softened. Prepare the pie crust. Add the cicada mixture. Lattice the second pie crust over the cicada mixture. Cook at 350 degrees until golden brown (about 11 to 14 minutes).

I know I'm going to be sorry I asked this, but how do you tell a female cicada from a male one?

[SUV]

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GLOWry, Mother Glynndie! Sounds close to the baked goods I myself am famous for here at Landover Baptist.

I won't commit the Sin of Pride yet one more time in bragging about it, but it's also nice iced with Mayonnaise and looks sort of thus:

[Old Iron Crotch]

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GLOWry, Mother Glynndie! Sounds close to the baked goods I am myself am famous for here at Landover Baptist.

I won't commit the Sin of Pride yet one more time in bragging about it, but it's also nice iced with Mayonnaise and looks sort of thus:

Maybe a bit of brown mustard on a sandwich, but ICED with mayo?

[H. Montague Worthington]

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Speaking of recipes, I have one for Geoduck, a large clam that grows in the waters off the Pacific Northwest. The geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) meat sticks out of its shell, and is very delicious.



My wife Delores loves geoducks steamed, just like I learned when I was growing up in Cleveland. When I put on my chef's hat, Delores gets excited because she knows she's going to get a delicious Cleveland Steamer. Then, after dinner, we go downstairs to the damp music room in the basement and Delores plays my rusty trombone.

[SUV]

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My GOD, Brother H. Monty, that does indeed look every bit as Delicious as the one Pastor gave me!!!

(So who needs "steamed hams?")

PS Bless you for helping me to ignore this new Sinner, Dances with Joy. If female, this sounds rather Gomer/wicker to me. And didn't she also used to do Dances with Wolves, too? Abomination!!!

Speaking of recipes, I have one for Geoduck, a large clam that grows in the waters off the Pacific Northwest. The geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) meat sticks out of its shell, and is very delicious.



My wife Delores loves geoducks steamed, just like I learned when I was growing up in Cleveland. When I put on my chef's hat, Delores gets excited because she knows she's going to get a delicious Cleveland Steamer. Then, after dinner, we go downstairs to the damp music room in the basement and Delores plays my rusty trombone.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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PS Bless you for helping me to ignore this new Sinner, Dances with Joy. If female, this sounds rather Gomer/wicker to me. And didn't she also used to do Dances with Wolves, too? Abomination!!!

I'm not sure what you mean by "do Dances with Wolves" but it is one of my favorite movies, and the screen name is a nod to it.

[Bobby-Joe]

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I'm not sure what you mean by "do Dances with Wolves" but it is one of my favorite movies, and the screen name is a nod to it.

An appropriate enough move for the likes of you; main character starts the movie attacking Southerners whose only crime is protecting their civil liberties. Then, when wallowing in a orgy of Christian blood during the bloodiest war in American history isn’t enough for him, he heads off into the west, takes up with the Indians to help them slaughter helpless settlers. It is regrettable that Costner chose to delete the Missionary Scene form the movie but I suppose showing his character rapping and torturing a Preacher and his family do death would make the anti-Christian, Anti-American message too obvious.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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An appropriate enough move for the likes of you; main character starts the movie attacking Southerners whose only crime is protecting their civil liberties. Then, when wallowing in a orgy of Christian blood during the bloodiest war in American history isn’t enough for him, he heads off into the west, takes up with the Indians to help them slaughter helpless settlers. It is regrettable that Costner chose to delete the Missionary Scene form the movie but I suppose showing his character rapping and torturing a Preacher and his family do death would make the anti-Christian, Anti-American message too obvious.

You evidently didn't see the same Dances with Wolves I saw.
I saw a beautiful movie about a soldier who was so sick of killing that he was ready to die, who went west to see the frontier before it was gone, met the people who lived there, he and they overcame language and cultural differences to forge a friendship, they basically adopted him into the tribe, he fell in love, defended his newfound extended family against attack, and when he was later attacked, they came to his defense.

[Bobby-Joe]

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You evidently didn't see the same Dances with Wolves I saw.
I saw a beautiful movie about a soldier who was so sick of killing that he was ready to die,.

Yes well that bit should have given the movie the title “Runs with the Chickens”. If Costner’s character had been less of a wuss and more of man he would have gone Jack Baur on those Confederate’s backsides and ended the entire American Civil War then and there. He would have been over that fence in slow motion with both guns blazing, karate kicking anything that moved. Instead, what does he do, rides back and forth begging them to shoot him because he has a boo boo on his leg.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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Yes well that bit should have given the movie the title “Runs with the Chickens”. If Costner’s character had been less of a wuss and more of man he would have gone Jack Baur on those Confederate’s backsides and ended the entire American Civil War then and there. He would have been over that fence in slow motion with both guns blazing, karate kicking anything that moved. Instead, what does he do, rides back and forth begging them to shoot him because he has a boo boo on his leg.

I'd say that it was a bit more than a boo boo. I wonder how loud you would cry for mommy with a similar wound, about to have your foot sawn off with no anesthetic and knowing that you would likely lose what was left of your leg to gangrene anyway. It's easy to see why a quick death would have been preferable.

[Brother V]

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I'd say that it was a bit more than a boo boo. I wonder how loud you would cry for mommy with a similar wound, about to have your foot sawn off with no anesthetic and knowing that you would likely lose what was left of your leg to gangrene anyway. It's easy to see why a quick death would have been preferable.

How is death for a heathen preferable?

Please explain to me how HELL would ever be a good option?

[Old Iron Crotch]

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How is death for a heathen preferable?

Please explain to me how HELL would ever be a good option?

I don't see hell as an option since I don't believe that it exists.