Last Riversdale Recipe: Squash Souffle

Exactly as it appeared in my email:

The recipe for the squash comes from Mary Randolph’s Sweet Potato Pudding receipt, with winter squash being substituted for the potatoes and is as follows:


Boil one pound of sweet potatoes very tender, rub them while hot through a colander, add six eggs, well beaten, three quarters of a pound of powdered sugar, three quarters of butter, and some grated nutmeg and lemon-peel, with a glass of brandy; [this next part is optional and was not used for the Art of Cookery] put a paste in the dish, and when the pudding is done, sprinkle the top with sugar, and cover it with bits of citron.


ETA: For part of dinner tonight, I fried up some frozen hash browns with onion and the rosemary and thyme in Greek olive oil. OMGSOGOOD!

ETA II: Have scored a cookbook with an interesting potato and cottage cheese recipe; it seems to be the inside of a blintz or something. I intend to apply the same herbs and substitute olive oil and Greek yogurt for the butter and cream.

ETA III: That Jewish/French cookbook? Has a recipe called "Knish Lorraine," which is right up there with "Kipper of Traken" as Greatest Recipe Name EVER. I don't know about the actual knish-ness of it, but it's in a matzo crust that looks rather interesting. Is there such a thing as whole grain matzo?

Sherlock Fic Rec: Lab Book

Fic Rec: The very NSFW Lab Book by Sam Storyteller, basically in which Sherlock seduces John for Christmas.

"Lestrade thinks we've been shagging for months," Sherlock replied.

"Of course he does." John straightened, found he could walk after all, and started for home again, Sherlock at his side. "Is there anyone we know who doesn't think we're shagging?"

"Mycroft called the idea absurd," Sherlock told him. John glanced at him. "My mother was inquiring about you."