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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Cobbler Sauce & Quilt Abbreviations

Now the title has nothing to do with one another.  I am looking for a sauce recipe for a blackberry cobbler.  My grandmother (bless her soul) made a sauce for her blackberry cobbler to die for.  It was a creamy sauce with sugar, milk (canned or whole), maybe flower and butter, but most definitely Brandy.  I don’t know if it call a hard sauce, sweet sauce or white sauce.  I am a city girl, I know that you country girls, that love to canned, cook and quilt must have some idea what I am looking for.  So if anyone of my followers has a recipe for a cobbler sauce please send it to me theslowquilter@gmail.com.  Just look at these cobblers, makes you mouth just water, I am just drooling by looking at them.

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Now for the Quilt Abbreviations:  Last night as I was going through reading blogs I notice some bloggers use abbreviations that I guess most of you might know.  In my case I have to think about it.  Hey I am just starting to text and still did not know what ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) was.  We all know BOM, UFO, FQ, and DH (Dear Husband) I did not now that one.  So I decided to surf the web for quilt abbreviations and here are a few that I don’t think you have ever seen.

WIWMI  - Wish It Would Make Itself

WOMBAT  - Waste of Material, Batting and Time

WWIT  - What Was I Thinking

FART  - Fabric Acquisition Road Trip

MGBTQ  - Must Get Back To Quilting

Flimsy – Finish top, not quilted or pieced top.  (I found out about this when I first started blogging and most of my quilt friends never heard of it before).

SABLE – Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy (I think we might all have this)

SUI – Shopping Under Influence (usually with a friend) 

TOAD – Trashed Objects Abandoned In Disgust

Siggies  - Squares of fabric with signatures and other info on them

Squishy – Envelopes filled with swap fabric or gifts sent/received in the mail

BITW -  Bears in the Woods, a group making the titled quilt from a book

BOB -  black on black but that could also be beige on beige

SEX  or S.E.X.  -  Stash Enhancing eXcursion, Stash Enhancing eXpedition, Stash Enhancing eXperience.  (Hay just want it.)

 TANQP -  There Are/Ain't No Quilt Police

NGFITSSITSWW  -  Never Gonna Finish It So Send It To Someone Who Will!

There are a lot more, but I JCSTC (just cannot seem to care).  So until tomorrow MQS (my quilt sisters).  Do you have any abbreviations to add to the list.

The Slow Quilter

6 comments:

  1. These are excellent. Never heard of them! Love STABLE and TOAD.
    Your grandmother's blackberry sauce sounds delicious.

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  2. I remember my mom making the most delicious pies and cobblers that you have ever tasted, but I didn't learn anything from her. I just don't like to cook! I had rather be in my sewing room. I wish that I had paid more attention to her though.
    I loved all the things that you listed. I have never heard of these, but I am fairly new to the computer.So I don't know a lot of stuff. There are lots of things that still amaze me.

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  3. I love any type of fruit cobbler especially peach. It is definitely an art to get it right. The abbreviations are funny...will have to use a couple.

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  4. I love your abbreviation list! Some made me laugh out loud1

    Here's one sauce I found online:

    1 whole vanilla bean, split lengthwise
    2 cups sifted powdered sugar
    1 cup butter or margarine, softened $
    Preparation

    Scrape tiny vanilla bean seeds into sugar; stir well. Combine vanilla sugar and butter in a mixing bowl. Beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until blended. Transfer to a serving dish.
    Note: One 6" vanilla bean equals about 1 tablespoon extract; if you want to substitute extract (from Southern Living).

    this sauce also looks good
    http://www.thibeaultstable.com/2012/09/blackberry-cobbler-with-vanilla-cream_9338.html

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  5. Cobbler? Oh now you're making me drool!! :) Great list of abbreviations, too funny - I knew some and saw some I hadn't heard (seen) before. I always try to make time for a good FART! :)

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  6. And don't forget PhD's = project half done. You can say to people you have a PhD in quilting!!! Yummy cobbler - that is one of my fav's :)

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