The Weather in a Cup o Joe

Instructions on how to predict the weather from a cup of coffee:

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2012/03/how-to_predict_weather_with_a.html

What Sign is Butter?

As usual Rex Bills is out in the passenger seat of the car and I'm sitting in a cafe reading parts of The New York Times that someone else was kindly enough to pay a god awful amount of money for. So Rex isn't available for consult on Keyword Rulerships. I'll probably have to fix this later.

The Dining section of the paper, the one I grabbed for first, of course, has COOKIES on the front page with the title "Butter Holds the Secret to Cookies That Sing" by Julia Moskin. The Experts are outing cookies over the Holiday. The Article's description of the way Butter behaves is below.

I wonder what sign Butter would be ruled by. Cancer rules Cooking although Virgo ought to. I think that Fat would have a joint rulership of Cancer with Jupiter. Add Venus/Jupiter for Sugar. Add Mars for the Baking part. Gawd, I'm Sun in Cancer trine Jupiter with Mars in the 4th House and I LOVE COOKIES!!!!! Cookies, Chocolate and Beer. Really, who needs anything else? (Actually, my blood sugar has forced me to tone down in recent years).

"Butter is basically an emulsion of water in fat, with some dairy solids that help hold them together. But food scientists, chefs and dairy professional stress butter's unique and sensitive nature the way helicopter parents dote on a gifted child.

Butter has that razor melting point," said Shirley O Corriher, a food scientist and author of the recently published "BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking." (Scribner).

For mixing and creaming, butter should be about 65 degrees: cold to the touch but warm enough to spread. Just three degrees warmer, at 68 degrees, it begins to melt."

"Once butter is melted, it's gone," said Jennifter McLagan, author of the new book "Fat: An Apprecitation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes" (Ten Speed Press).

Warm butter can be rechilled and refrozen, but once the buterfat gets warm, the emulsion breaks, never to return."

Yeaaahahhhh! That's definitely a Sun in Cancer!!!!!