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Jack Daniel’s Sauce
Jack Daniel’s Sauce
Ingredients:
1/4 lb. butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup 10% cream
1 egg
6 tbsp. Jack Daniel’s Bourbon
Directions:
Mix butter, sugar and cream in top of double boiler. Cook over simmering water
until sugar dissolves and mixture is hot. Whisk in egg and continue cooking until sauce
thickens slightly. Stir in Bourbon.
To serve, slice pudding, pour sauce over it and garnish with berries in season.
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
The Nose Remembers When
A warm spring day at the the Inn makes me restless. I’ve been storing energy
all Winter and need to get out and go somewhere. I start to think of foreign trips to
take. With all the Spring planting and general clean-up-after-winter work to be done that
isn’t usually possible.
So instead, when I want a day off, I take my nose for a walk. I cut fresh grass,
toss hay in the barn, smell the freesias, dig in the newly-exposed moist earth, or rub my
face in the warm fur of a cat. Like a detective or a bloodhound on a hunt, I’m scenting
out smells to stimulate me because I know that every odor that comes accidentally or
intentionally to my nose will instantly whisk me away to times and places in memory
more quickly than a jet could carry me to an exotic locale. It’s a vacation in recall that
I can return to and from without jetlag and come back refreshed every time.
It’s no wonder our noses are right in the middle of our faces, up front and
sticking out where we can poke it into things. Neuroanatomists tell us that is it’s a very
short distance from the receptor cells in the nose to the target cells in the brain, to those
bumpy brows and frontal lobes that we worked so hard through the millennia to
develop. By contrast, your fingers are a long way from your brain. If your nose was any
closer to the brain, it would be your brain. (And maybe in some ways it is.) The fact that
your nose has this enviable “local call” connection gives the environment an opportunity
to wage an upfront and personal attack on our brains, especially on our memories,
through our senses.
Smells evoke emotionally charged memories as pungently as an electrical
probe surgically applied directly to your grey cells would. (Don’t try is at at home!) The
other senses are not so directly and uncompromisingly connected to the memory
banks. Pinch your arm and you’re unlikely to immediately be transported to another
time and place where you experienced a similar pinching sensation. Look at water
cascading over rocks in a garden. Does it make you recall standing at the foot of a
waterfall in the forest? You may know the memory is there and with some mental effort,
connect the two but rarely does sight or touch trigger memory of such sensational, fully
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
kinesthetic experiences. Television and the movies do everything they can to involve
Ingredients:
1/4 lb. butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup 10% cream
1 egg
6 tbsp. Jack Daniel’s Bourbon
Directions:
Mix butter, sugar and cream in top of double boiler. Cook over simmering water
until sugar dissolves and mixture is hot. Whisk in egg and continue cooking until sauce
thickens slightly. Stir in Bourbon.
To serve, slice pudding, pour sauce over it and garnish with berries in season.
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
The Nose Remembers When
A warm spring day at the the Inn makes me restless. I’ve been storing energy
all Winter and need to get out and go somewhere. I start to think of foreign trips to
take. With all the Spring planting and general clean-up-after-winter work to be done that
isn’t usually possible.
So instead, when I want a day off, I take my nose for a walk. I cut fresh grass,
toss hay in the barn, smell the freesias, dig in the newly-exposed moist earth, or rub my
face in the warm fur of a cat. Like a detective or a bloodhound on a hunt, I’m scenting
out smells to stimulate me because I know that every odor that comes accidentally or
intentionally to my nose will instantly whisk me away to times and places in memory
more quickly than a jet could carry me to an exotic locale. It’s a vacation in recall that
I can return to and from without jetlag and come back refreshed every time.
It’s no wonder our noses are right in the middle of our faces, up front and
sticking out where we can poke it into things. Neuroanatomists tell us that is it’s a very
short distance from the receptor cells in the nose to the target cells in the brain, to those
bumpy brows and frontal lobes that we worked so hard through the millennia to
develop. By contrast, your fingers are a long way from your brain. If your nose was any
closer to the brain, it would be your brain. (And maybe in some ways it is.) The fact that
your nose has this enviable “local call” connection gives the environment an opportunity
to wage an upfront and personal attack on our brains, especially on our memories,
through our senses.
Smells evoke emotionally charged memories as pungently as an electrical
probe surgically applied directly to your grey cells would. (Don’t try is at at home!) The
other senses are not so directly and uncompromisingly connected to the memory
banks. Pinch your arm and you’re unlikely to immediately be transported to another
time and place where you experienced a similar pinching sensation. Look at water
cascading over rocks in a garden. Does it make you recall standing at the foot of a
waterfall in the forest? You may know the memory is there and with some mental effort,
connect the two but rarely does sight or touch trigger memory of such sensational, fully
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
kinesthetic experiences. Television and the movies do everything they can to involve
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