What Shall We Bake Today?

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May reminds me of fresh fruit, sunshine and picnics.  Let’s start the month off with Peach bars!

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour

1-1/2 cups sugar, divided

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

Dash ground cinnamon

1 cup shortening

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 pounds peaches, peeled and chopped

1 teaspoon almond extract

4 teaspoons cornstarch

Directions

Preheat oven to 375°. Whisk flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; cut in shortening until crumbly. In another bowl, whisk egg and vanilla until blended; add to flour mixture, stirring with a fork until crumbly.

Reserve 2-1/2 cups crumb mixture for topping. Press remaining mixture onto bottom of a greased 13×9-in. baking pan.

Toss peaches with almond extract. In another bowl, mix cornstarch and remaining sugar; add to peaches and toss to coat. Spread over crust; sprinkle with reserved topping.

Bake until lightly browned and filling is bubbly, 40-45 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

Enjoy! DO NOT FREEZE!

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  1. “Largest Viking coin hoard in Norwegian history found

    An assemblage of more than 3,000 silver coins, the largest Viking-era coin hoard ever found in Norway, has been discovered in Østerdalen. Large coin hoards are extremely rare in Norway and one of this size is without parallel on the archaeological record. The second largest, found in the 1830s, contained 1,849 coins. The third largest and the last to be found before this one in 1950 and contained just 964 coins.

    The first 19 coins were found by metal detectorists Rune Sætre and Vegard Sørlie in a field near Rena on April 10th. The coins were scattered in the plough layer of extensively cultivated land, likely because the original container of the single deposit was destroyed by agricultural activity.

    Dubbed the Mørstad hoard after the farm where the coins were found, they range in date from 980s to the 1040s, a turbulent period in Norway’s history when Viking warriors brought treasure home from their raids abroad. So far most of them are from England and Germany, with a smaller number of Danish and Norwegian coins in the mix. There are coins minted by Cnut the Great, at various times king of England, Denmark and Norway, Æthelred the Unready of England, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Harald Hardrada of Norway.

    Foreign coins Norway’s main currency until the reign of Hardrada who was the first king to establish a national mint in the country after his return from a visit to Byzantium in 1045. Based on the dates of the coins, the hoard was deposited around 1047, the very beginning of this important transition, and there are pieces of hacksilver (fragments of brooches, ingots, other silver objects that were cut off and used as currency based on their weight).

    Excavations are ongoing and plenty of coins are still being found. For a while coins were being unearthed at a rate of 200 a day. That seems to be slowing now, but yesterday the count was 150, so who knows what the final number will be.”

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  7. hope they take his license and throw his ass in jail!

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  15. well, that was quick!

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  22. Good!!!!

    Just The News: “A federal appeals court in Louisiana Friday temporarily blocked ‌a federal rule allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed through ​the mail.

    A panel of the 5th ​U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the state would likely succeed in its challenge to the federal rule that was adopted under the Biden administration, according to Reuters. 

    The ruling, although temporary, significantly curtails access ​to the drug nationwide and ⁠particularly in states that have ​banned abortion. A previous rule required the drug to be dispensed in person.”

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  23. mike bski
    @BskiMike22802
    Dear Senator Sanders,

    Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just… appreciate it for a moment.

    The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything.

    Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register.

    Here is what Jim Quinn’s Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: “If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing.”

    Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it.

    And then — THEN — during your “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth.

    When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: “You think I’m gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?”

    Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK “the rules apply to you people, not to me.” That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed.

    Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont.

    You named. Two. Post offices.

    You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem.

    Quinn’s Law #25: “Liberals are great at giving away other people’s money.” You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else’s money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle.

    You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning.

    I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher’s salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise.

    The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else?

    IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. 

    COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me.

    And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski’s Classroom community on X or YouTube.

    But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us.

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