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High Altitude Baking 101 From Betty Crocker {click link for FULL details}

We’ve provided this guide to help those who live at high altitudes bake and cook with success. At high altitudes, about 3,500 feet or more above sea level, foods bake and cook differently than if prepared at sea level.

Guide to Baking and Cooking at High Altitudes

The charts above describe specific adjustments you can make when baking and cooking. Because the effects of high altitudes can vary, we recommend that you first make a recipe as written before attempting to adjust it. If the food is not acceptable in texture or appearance, try one recipe change at a time until you get the result you want.

Baking at High Altitudes

At high altitudes:

• Air pressure is lower, so foods take longer to bake. Temperatures and/or bake times may need to be increased.

• Liquids evaporate faster, so amounts of flour, sugar and liquids may need to be changed to prevent batter that is too moist, dry or gummy.

• Gases expand more, so doughs rise faster. Leavening agents (baking soda and baking powder) may need to be decreased. Doughs may need shorter rising times and may need to be “punched down” (deflated) twice during the rising process.

The suggestions below are for scratch recipes. For cake mixes and mixes for other baked goods, check the package for directions specifically for that product.

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The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.

The artwork is too great not to reblog. 

Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.

That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.

One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.

Except evidence points towards TLM being written for a man.

Rictor Norton, in My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries, theorizes that The Little Mermaid was written as a love letter by Hans Christian Andersen to Edvard Collin. This is based on a letter Andersen wrote to Collin, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young woman, around the same time that the Little Mermaid was written. Andersen wrote ”I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench… my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery.”[11]Norton interprets this as a declaration of Andersen’s homosexual love for Collin.[12]

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Revamped S’mores - Tutorials

These are not the typical s’mores recipes! These are s’mores with a twist!  I hope you enjoy the unique ingredient combinations. This list will definitely help revamp this favorite camping treat!

  1. Lemon Meringue Smores (pictured)
  2. Triple Chocolate Smores (pictured): Chocolate Marshmallows & Chocolate Graham Crackers and semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate 
  3. Banana Strawberry Smores (pictured)

Here are some combinations you can add:

  • lemon curd, homemade or store bought {Lemon Meringue Pie} (pictured)
  • strawberries and cream cheese
  • fresh apple slices and cinnamon
  • Nutella and dulce de leche
  • Ghirardelli caramel or raspberry filled chocolate squares
  • peanut butter or almond butter
  • chopped candy bars – especially Snickers or whole Reese’s
  • triple berry – fresh blueberries, raspberries and blackberries plus white chocolate
  • brown sugar roasted sweet potatoes slices
  • brownie pieces
  • cheesecake pieces
  • raspberry jam or raspberry curd and dark chocolate
  • sea salt on the original
  • Oreo tar (that’s what I call the stuff inside Oreo Truffles)
  • strawberries, bananas, chocolate, caramel sauce, pecans/almonds {Ice Cream Sundae} (pictured)
  • toasted coconut with homemade coconut marshmallows and macadamia nuts or pineapple
  • fresh strawberries, lemon curd and strawberry marhsmallows {Strawberry Lemonade}
  • Andes Mints with chocolate graham crackers
  • chocolate orange pieces (these), a pinch of orange zest and chocolate grahams
  • sandwich roasted vanilla marshmallows between two peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies or chocolate cookies

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