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blackgang

this is the kind of shit I am talking about. not your fault nor mine.

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Nawty

Hallelujah.....greepeaces newest and oldest member....

Whats next ?? Solar panels on every car rooftop ??

sabang

I've driven thru' Prachinburi several times, on my way up to Ubon. The massive eucalypt plantations are the monoculture in a sizable area, you might as well be in Australia. They grow fast and straight, they are well tough and no doubt a profitable wood to grow. But it stuffs up the immediate area for any other form of agriculture. Eucalypts suck out water from the ground like nobodys business, the more they get the faster they grow. In a dryer area, such as large parts of Isaan, they'll take the water table down- I do hope they're very cautious about introducing it up there unless they want to eat gum leaves instead of rice.

I hope they've trained their people also in forestry management such as firebreaks and fire control- if that place goes up in flames it won't be nice.

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Rural Surin

BG,you never cease to surprise me. Good Man! Cheers!

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Rural Surin

Excellent points Sabang...

Dug

Back to scones, dumplings and biscuits.
Scones, as everyone knows, best with whipped cream and strawberry jam and a cup of tea.

Dug

More scones.

Dug

Dumplings come in many shapes and sizes.
I'm leaving out the Chinese dumplings here.

Dug

Funnily enough, when I googled images, biscuits, I got a lot of pictures of scones (what the yanks apparently call biscuits).
The yanks call biscuits 'cookies' for some reason. They are a mixed up and confused people that much is obvious.

And the best biscuits of all. (though these don't seem to be a great representation of anzac biscuits)

Nawty

This one gotta be straight out of Mathos' kitchen.

Those scones look great, feel like one now, cream, rasberry jam.....hmmmmm

Rural Surin

Notice the slopped gravy all over the plate for photo presentation?

killerbees

To paraphrase what that guy once wrote, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Who really cares what you call it? It looks delicious.

Hmmm, British people and American people and (insert here) people have different names for things... Wow.

blackgang

When I GOOGLED Biscuits, there are the first 2 on top.

Biscuit Recipe With Picture - Joyofbaking.com

How to Make the Best Buttermilk Biscuits from Scratch — Pinch My Salt
White Lily Light Biscuits
2 C. white lily unbleached self-rising flour
1/4 cup butter (plus two tablespoons for brushing on
top of biscuits)
2/3 to 3/4 cups buttermilk
Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
Spoon flour into measuring cup and level with a knife. Measure flour into bowl. Cut in butter until mixtures resembles coarse crumbs. Blend in enough buttermilk until dough leaves sides of bowl. Knead gently 2 or 3 times on lightly floured surface. Cut with large biscuit cutter. Place on pan with biscuits touching. Brush tops with melted butter. Bake at 500 for 8 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for a few minutes on wire rack.
What struck me about this recipe was that it’s so simple! Of course it gets slightly more complicated if you don’t have the White Lily self-rising flour, but it still doesn’t take much more time to throw these together than to open a can of store-bought biscuits!
After doing some research both online and on my cookbook shelf, I decided to try to approximate a White Lily biscuit by substituting a mixture of national brand all-purpose flour, cake flour, and leavening for the white lily self-rising flour.

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blackgang

But those are cookies not biscuits..
And the pics of biscuits are not scones as scones are something like a biscuit, but GOOGLE being smarter than the average limey knows the difference between them and you folks don't..

Dug

Googles a yank, that's why it thinks biscuits are scones.

Rural Surin

Google Seppo, see what ya get.

Johnny Longprong

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Marmite the Dog

The Brits did a lot more logging in Burma and actually replanted as they went, which is partly the reason why Burma's teak forests are intact and Thailand's (which were exploited by the Dutch as much as anyone else) are not.

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