I¡¯m a ¡°paint by number¡± cook. My mom did everything from scratch (including grinding her own meat using a long-armed fulcrum hand grinder she¡¯d bolt to her prep table, making her own candy cooking the sugar to ¡°soft ball¡± or ¡°hard ball¡± consistency (I remember but haven¡¯t the foggiest idea what it meant.¡± Her desserts were fabulous (in her late 80s, she and my spouse almost came to blows¡ªOK it was ¡°all in fun.¡± but they were both dead serious, about just which one of them would be entitled to that last piece of one of her chocolate cherry cakes), but she was limited by what was available in Michigan¡¯s frozen north. Spinach, for example, was awful, slimy stuff that came from a can. And, she assassinated meat. Anything less than overly well done was undercooked in her opinion. Thanksgiving turkeys were SO dry that they could almost be used as building material
I¡¯m about to make my first Cornish Pastys (delicious meat-pie lunch staple for 18th and 19th century shaft miners, brought in the 19th century principally to Copper Mines in MT and Iron/Copper mines in Michigan¡¯s UP (where I grew up, and where my mom made them frequently). Every little village in the ¡°U.P,¡± had bakeries that would make delicious pastys.
I settled on a recipe (not my mom¡¯s) yesterday on the web, but printing the recipe from Safari was not possible (my Brother LW-L5200DW would just spew blank sheets, and even ¡°save to PDF¡± produced the same result (a blank document < 1 KB in size). However, printing from Chrome gave the desired result, faithfully reproducing the identical visible print preview in Safari and Chrome. Curiously, in Safari the print dialog DID show miniature previews of the pages in the left sidebar but the data didn¡¯t make it into the print or saved PDF.
Here¡¯s the URL. I¡¯d be grateful if a few ¡®listas would try to sort out if this is a Safari problem, or a macOS problem, or a printer software compatibility problem:
I¡¯m on a current generation 14¡± M3 Pro MacBook Pro running current Sonoma OS.
Thanks so much,
For the gourmands who¡¯ve never been to the U.P., these are DELiCIOUS, by the way.
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Jim Robertson
