• Today in History - 1946

    From Dave Drum@1:18/200 to All on Mon Jul 4 10:57:00 2022
    05 July 1946 - A TWO-PIECE SWIMSUIT MAKES AN EXPLOSIVE DEBUT IN PARIS
    Louis R++ard's abbreviated two-piece swimwear design debuts in a fashion
    show held at Paris' Molitor Pool. R++ard names his creation, cut from 30 square inches of fabric, after the recent nuclear bomb tests on Bikini
    Atoll, explaining, "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating."

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    Title: Bikini Sandwich
    Categories: Dairy, Breads, Cheese, Pork, Eggs
    Yield: 2 sandwiches

    MMMMM---------------------MANCHEGO MORNAY----------------------------
    3 c Whole milk
    4 1/2 tb Unsalted butter
    6 tb A-P flour
    3/4 c Coarse grated 6-month-aged
    - Manchego cheese
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/8 ts (ea)black & espelette pepper

    MMMMM--------------------------BIKINI--------------------------------
    4 sl White bread
    1/4 c Truffle aioli
    4 sl White American cheese
    1/4 c Jamon iberico (ham)
    2 lg Fried eggs; sunny side up
    2 tb Butter; melted

    Make the mornay. In small sauce pan, heat milk, salt,
    black pepper, and espelette on low heat. In separate
    sauce pan, heat butter on medium-low heat.

    Sprinkle the flour over the hot butter and stir for 4 to
    5 minutes. Stir often with spatula to cook out the raw
    flour taste.

    One ladle at a time, add the warm milk to the flour and
    butter mixture, whisking simultaneously.

    After milk is added, sprinkle the cheese into warm sauce
    while whisking. Strain and keep warm.

    Make the bikini. On each slice of white bread, smear a
    few tablespoons of truffle aioli and build the sandwich
    up from the bottom. Place a slice of cheese on each
    slice of bread. Next, add jam+|n ib++rico to one slice of
    bread and place the other piece of cheese and bread on
    top to complete the sandwich.

    Place nonstick saut++ pan on medium heat and add 2
    tablespoons butter. Place bikini in pan and press
    lightly for 30 seconds, release, and sear for 2 minutes.
    Brush remaining melted butter on the top of the bikini
    and flip. Continue to sear until the bikini is
    sufficiently hot and cheese in melted.

    To assemble. Place bikini on plate and cover with ++ cup
    warm manchego mornay and top with sunny side up egg.
    Lightly salt egg yolk and serve.

    Recipe by Brian Hyland

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.myrecipes.com

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  • From Dave Drum@1:3634/12 to All on Tue Dec 20 04:55:00 2022
    20 December 1946 - 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE' PREMIERES: Frank Capra's
    film starring James Stewart and Donna Reed debuts at New York's Globe
    Theatre. Though not a critical or box office hit right away, it will
    become a holiday classic, showing in theaters and on TV for decades
    to come.

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    Title: Bert & Ernie's Chicken-Apple Sausage
    Categories: Poultry, Fruits, Herbs, Vegetables
    Yield: 8 servings

    1 tb Olive oil; more to fry
    - sausage
    1 sm Onion; fine diced
    2 Granny Smith apples; peeled,
    - cored, in 1/4" dice
    1 lb Ground chicken
    1/3 c Fresh sage leaves; shredded
    3/4 ts (ea) fresh ground pepper &
    - salt
    pn Cinnamon

    Heat oil in a small saute pan over medium heat, and cook
    onion until translucent and soft, about 3 minutes. Add
    apples and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Let cool.

    Combine chicken with onion-apple mixture and remaining
    ingredients, mixing with your hands. Form into 1 1/2"
    round patties, and chill until ready to use.

    Set oven @ 350ºF/175ºC.

    Heat a little oil in a medium ovenproof saute pan, and
    brown patties over medium-low heat 2 minutes on each
    side; transfer pan to oven, and bake until cooked
    through, about 10 minutes.

    Yield: 16 patties

    RECIPE FROM: https://tmax.pakasak.com

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  • From Dave Drum@1:3634/12 to All on Wed Feb 15 04:52:00 2023
    15 Fevruary 1946 - ENIAC UNVEILED AS THE FIRST GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTER:
    The University of Pennsylvania formally dedicates their room-filling
    computer that the press has dubbed a 'Giant Brain.' The six main
    programmers, all women, have initially programmed ENIAC (Electronic
    Numerical Integrator And Computer) to run computations on the
    feasibility of the hydrogen bomb.

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    Title: Computer Cake
    Categories: Cakes, Desserts, Novelty
    Yield: 24 Servings

    30 1/2 oz (2 boxes) Betty Crocker
    - Supermoist cake mix (any
    - flavour)
    Water, oil & eggs called for
    - on cake mix package
    2 lb (2 tubs) Betty Crocker Rich
    - & Creamy vanilla ready-to-
    - spread frosting
    7 Drops blue food colouring
    Licorice candy in desired
    - colour
    Pastel mint candy

    Set oven @ 350ºF/175ºC.

    Grease bottoms only of 2 rectangular pans, 13" x 9" x
    2", with shortening. Make cake mixes as directed on
    package, using water, oil and eggs. Pour half the batter
    into each pan. Bake cakes as directed on package for 13"
    x 9" rectangle. Cool 10 minutes. Run knife around sides
    of pans to loosen cakes remove from pans to wire rack.
    Cool completely, about 1 hour.

    Leave 1 cake layer whole for screen. Cut second cake
    layer as shown in diagram. Freeze cake pieces about 1
    hour for easier frosting if desired. Reserve 3/4 cup
    frosting. Cover large flat tray or piece of cardboard
    with plastic wrap or aluminum foil. Arrange cake pieces
    on tray to form computer as shown in diagram. Frost
    cake, attaching pieces with small amount of frosting.

    For a pixture - tinyurl.com/bddxvkbu - UDD

    Drop 1 drop food color about 3 inches in from each
    corner of the screen area. Blend into frosting with
    spatula to within 1 inch of edges to make screen.
    Outline with licorice. Arrange mint candies on keyboard.
    Trim mouse to desired shape. Frost with 1/2 cup reserved
    frosting. Outline mouse keys with licorice.

    Place mouse next to keyboard. Tint remaining frosting
    with 3 drops blue food color. Place frosting in
    decorating bag with writing tip. Pipe desired message on
    screen. Pipe cord from mouse to keyboard. Store loosely
    covered at room temperature.

    CUTTING AND ASSEMBLING COMPUTER CAKE: Leave first layer
    whole for screen.

    Cut diagonal pieces from both sides of second cake layer
    to form keyboard cut mouse.

    Arrange uncut cake layer above cut cake. Place mouse
    next to keyboard.

    From "Betty Crocker's Ultimate Cake Mix Cookbook."

    RECIPE FROM: http://www.dvo.com

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  • From Dave Drum@1:229/452 to All on Wed Jul 5 05:45:21 2023
    05 July 1946 - A TWO-PIECE SWIMSUIT MAKES AN EXPLOSIVE DEBUT IN PARIS:
    Louis Reard's abbreviated two-piece swimwear design debuts in a fashion
    show held at Paris' Molitor Pool. Reard names his creation, cut from 30
    square inches of fabric, after the recent nuclear bomb tests on Bikini
    Atoll, explaining, "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating."

    Although two-piece bathing suits were being used by women as early as
    the 1930s, the bikini is commonly dated to July 5, 1946, when, partly
    due to material rationing after World War II, French engineer Louis
    Reard introduced the modern bikini, modeled by Micheline Bernardini.
    Reard named his design for the Bikini Atoll, where the first post-war
    tests of the atomic bomb were taking place.

    French women welcomed the design but the Catholic Church, some media,
    and a majority of the public initially thought the design was risqué or
    even scandalous. Contestants in the first Miss World beauty pageant wore
    them in 1951, but the bikini was then banned from the competition.
    Actress Brigitte Bardot drew attention when she was photographed wearing
    a bikini on the beach during the Cannes Film Festival in 1953. Other
    actresses, including Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner, also received press attention when they wore bikinis. During the early 1960s, the design
    appeared on the cover of Playboy and Sports Illustrated, giving it
    additional legitimacy. Ursula Andress made a huge impact when she
    emerged from the surf wearing what is now an iconic bikini in the James
    Bond movie Dr. No (1962). The deer skin bikini worn by Raquel Welch in
    the film One Million Years B.C. (1966) turned her into an international
    sex symbol and was described as a definitive look of the 1960s.

    The bikini gradually grew to gain wide acceptance in Western society.
    According to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard, the bikini is
    perhaps the most popular type of female beachwear around the globe
    because of "the power of women, and not the power of fashion". As he
    explains, "The emancipation of swimwear has always been linked to the emancipation of women." By the early 2000s, bikinis had become a
    US$811 million business annually, and boosted spin-off services like
    bikini waxing and sun tanning.

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    Title: Bikini Sandwich
    Categories: Dairy, Breads, Cheese, Pork, Eggs
    Yield: 2 Sandwiches

    MMMMM----------------------MANCHEGO MORNAY---------------------------
    3 c Whole milk
    4 1/2 tb Unsalted butter
    6 tb A-P flour
    3/4 c Coarse grated 6-month-aged
    - Manchego cheese
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/8 ts (ea)black & espelette pepper

    MMMMM---------------------------BIKINI--------------------------------
    4 sl White bread
    1/4 c Truffle aioli
    4 sl White American cheese
    1/4 c Jamon iberico (ham)
    2 lg Fried eggs; sunny side up
    2 tb Butter; melted

    Make the mornay. In small sauce pan, heat milk, salt,
    black pepper, and espelette on low heat. In separate
    sauce pan, heat butter on medium-low heat.

    Sprinkle the flour over the hot butter and stir for 4 to
    5 minutes. Stir often with spatula to cook out the raw
    flour taste.

    One ladle at a time, add the warm milk to the flour and
    butter mixture, whisking simultaneously.

    After milk is added, sprinkle the cheese into warm sauce
    while whisking. Strain and keep warm.

    Make the bikini. On each slice of white bread, smear a
    few tablespoons of truffle aioli and build the sandwich
    up from the bottom. Place a slice of cheese on each
    slice of bread. Next, add jamón iberico to one slice of
    bread and place the other piece of cheese and bread on
    top to complete the sandwich.

    Place nonstick saute' pan on medium heat and add 2
    tablespoons butter. Place bikini in pan and press
    lightly for 30 seconds, release, and sear for 2 minutes.
    Brush remaining melted butter on the top of the bikini
    and flip. Continue to sear until the bikini is
    sufficiently hot and cheese in melted.

    To assemble. Place bikini on plate and cover with warm
    manchego mornay and top with sunny side up egg. Lightly
    salt egg yolk and serve.

    Recipe by Brian Hyland

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.myrecipes.com

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