a hot day in june
Jun. 21st, 2012 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeThe coolest part of today was before the sun rose. The birds were singing it up at 4:30, but they were drowsy again by 7:00
Jiji-the-cat knows how to stay cool...
I like hot days. The air has so many different flavors, and you appreciate a current of cool in it as much as a stream or spring of cold water. On this hot day, I picked red currants. (Among the many other things I like are berries and red things. So today was perfect.)
Now I have two bowls full:
There will be red currant jelly sometime in the near future.
Jiji-the-cat knows how to stay cool...
I like hot days. The air has so many different flavors, and you appreciate a current of cool in it as much as a stream or spring of cold water. On this hot day, I picked red currants. (Among the many other things I like are berries and red things. So today was perfect.)
Now I have two bowls full:
There will be red currant jelly sometime in the near future.
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Date: 2012-06-23 12:13 am (UTC)These are now common naturalised plants in southern and southeastern Asia. In local folk beliefs they provide shelter to ghosts and demons. The scent of the Plumeria has been associated with a vampire in Malay folklore, the pontianak; frangipani trees are often planted in cemeteries. They are associated with temples in both Hindu and Buddhist cultures.
I'm guessing this is not news to you :-)
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Date: 2012-06-23 09:05 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangipane
These things about Frangipani (the flower), I did not know. At all. Which is strange, considering.
But my folks had a record I used to get in trouble for listening to, called Irma la Douce. Which was, I suppose, risqué for the 50s. Some sort of sentimental and heavily stereotyped comedy about the Parisian underworld, and a poor student who falls in love with a prostitute, becomes her pimp, but refuses to share her, so he masquerades as a rich client to keep her to himself, so he has to wax floors during the day to pay her to pay him (give logic a miss on that one, I think). I remember how it began. A sleepy little tune on an accordion started up and the narrator began... "This is a story about passion, bloodshed, desire and death. Everything, in fact, that makes life worth living..."
Getting to the point, one of the hardened criminals is introduced at the end of a series of brutal nicknames, representing the "crème de la crème of crime". Polyte, the Bull, Roberto the Rock, Jojo of the dirty eyes, and... Frangipane (the flower). Hilarity.
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Date: 2012-06-23 09:09 am (UTC)I do love the perpetual-motion-machine logic of your Irma la Douce.
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Date: 2012-06-23 09:14 am (UTC)Another thing we do with redcurrant to keep it is run the fruit through a foodmill with some mashed ginger or rhubarb, filter it, add a wallop of honey and can the syrupy mix like any other fruit canning concoction (hot bath, 30 mins).
We use that a squash (disambiguation man sez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(drink) ) for soft drinks with a little seltzer.
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Date: 2012-06-23 04:02 pm (UTC)