Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Twitter This

I should say right off that I'm not on Twitter.  No objections, just no use yet, especially as I don't text message at all (or is it IM, or is that unrelated entirely?  I'm not quite a luddite but I don't comprehend all social media).   And I'm wordy and can't imagine stating something in 140 characters when I could use 140 sentences!

But I'm fascinated by Twittering recipes.  Could you make this:

Biscotti: mix 1/3c sug/3T oil/egg/t anise flavr; +c flour/t bkgpwdr. Roll log to fit bkgpan; pat down. 30m@375/190C. Slice~14; brwn+6m/side.

More importantly, could you write it?

Check out the article on Maureen Evans who is at the forefront of "tweeting" (the act of sending a tweet, or 140-character message via Twitter) whole, real, reproducible recipes or take the Twitter Recipe Challenge.
 
(Or see Maureen Dowd make fun of the whole thing).  

Here's my attempt (w/ 88 characters w/o spaces; 111 with)

Mousse:  Add 1/2c cream to 1 1/2c melt choc.  Whip 1 1/2c cream/2T sug; fold in choc mix.  Refrig.  Serve w/choc shavings.

For the original recipe (the above includes doubled amounts), see here.  Character count?  736/882.

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