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The two organisations are caught in a legal battle after the Boy Scouts started recruiting girls.
The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become Scouting America in an effort to emphasize inclusion as it...
"My identity is a boy. If I was them, I would let every person in the world go in. It's right to do."
My fellow Daring Baker, Mary, said "If the Daring Bakers were a Girl Scout/Boy Scout troop, then our manual with badges would be Dorie Greenspan's "Baking from My Home to Yours". Mary, I agree with you completely! Before I started food blogging, I am so embarrassed to admit that I was oblivious to this life changing book and didn't even know who Dorie Greenspan was. *blush blush* But after reading post after post from other DBs, I quickly did my research and set myself straight. As a baking newbie, there are only 2 baking cookbooks on my bookshelf and Dorie's book recently joined them. This book was everything I thought it would be and more - it's simply amazing! In the last few weeks I've owned this book, I've made more recipes from it than my 2 other books combined. Dorie writes that she learned this lemon cream recipe from none other than the king of pastry, Pierre Herme. I know I'm bad to fiddle with a recipe like this one. Why mess with a good thing you know? But hear me out! Since my tart pan is 8 inches, I had to scale down the recipe which was originally for a 9 in tart pan. So 4 eggs became 3, and the 3/4 cup of lemon juice became a 1/2 cup. After appropriately scaling down the sugar, I also decreased it a bit because I tend to use less sugar in my recipes and prefer my curds more tangy and tart, so 1 cup of sugar scaled down to 3/4 cup but I only used a 1/2 cup. Finally, (here comes the biggest departure) the original recipe called for roughly 2 and a half sticks of butter which scaled down to 2 sticks. As much as I love butter, I just couldn't bring myself to add the full 2 sticks. Butter is the key ingredient that transforms an ordinary lemon curd to "the most extraordinary French lemon cream" because instead of melting like in ordinary curds, it emulsifies into something light and dreamy. But I just couldn't do it! In the end, I only added 1 stick of butter. I can't call this an extraordinary lemon cream, only an ordinary lemon cream, but boy was it the best lemon curd/cream I have ever tasted! I can only imagine how astronomical it would been if I had added the rest of the butter. Notes: - The recipe can generously fill an 8 in tart but can also be stretched to fill a 9 in tart. - To stay true to the original recipe, use 2 sticks of butter. Lemon Cream Adapted from Dorie Greenspan 1/2 C sugar Zest of 3 lemons 3 eggs 1/2 C lemon juice (roughly 3 lemons) 1 stick of butter, cut into one tablespoon pieces 1 premade tart shell You'll need an instant-read thermometer, a fine mesh sieve, blender or food processor. I didn't have a thermometer so I guesstimated. Bring some water to a simmer in a saucepan. Meanwhile, in a heatproof bowl big enough that you can set over the saucepan, rub the zest with the sugar, off heat. Then whisk in the eggs and then the lemon juice. Turn the heat down so that the water is barely simmering, and set the bowl over the saucepan. Whisk and cook the cream until it reaches 180 degrees F. As soon as it reaches 180 degrees F, strain the curd into your blender or food processor. You can discard the zest that's left behind in the sieve. Let the curd cool until it is 140 degrees F, stirring occasionally. This will take about 10 minutes. Put the cap on the blender and turn the blender on high. Add the butter 4 tablespoons at a time. Keep blending for another 3 minutes. If the machine gets too hot, you can do it at 1 minute intervals, resting the machine in between. I was expecting the curd to whip up in the blender, but instead the thick curd was as thin as soup after blending! *panic panic!!* Pour the cream into a bowl or container and press a piece of plastic wrap against the surface. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight (I would recommend the latter). After a night in the fridge, the completely soupy cream magically thickened into the best lemon curd/cream I have ever tasted! I didn't need to panic, I should have known that a Dorie recipe wouldn't fail me. Assemble the tart just before serving. Spoon the cold cream into the tart shell and serve immediately. P.S. Who says you need a tart shell. It's delicious on toast in the morning or *ahem* with a spoon. ;D
The Boy Scouts will soon include girls, and not everyone’s happy about it.
Pope Francis told thousands of Italian boy scouts and girl guides who packed St Peter's Square that they had a very important role to play in the Church and in the wider society.
If the BSA wants to welcome female Scouts, it needs to start now—not next February
Girl Scouts CEO Sylvia Acevedo had a career as a trailblazer, and now she's using her experience to reinvent the Girl Scouts with a science and tech focus. She's also doubling down on programs tailored to girls as Boy Scouts goes co-ed.
Juliette Gordon Low is best known as the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
An outpouring of support for a transgender Girl Scout in Illinois last month illustrates the different ways Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are handling LGBT issues.
On March 12, 1912, Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low got a small group of girls together in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia and held the first Girl Scout meeting.
Why Mormons are ending their association with Boy Scouts and how it could affect your life. Many of you will not think that Mormons leaving the Boy Scouts is important. The Boy Scouts of America (soon to be called “Scouts BSA”) are losing members rapidly, and with the nearly twenty percent of the 2.3 million […]
Aaron Shamo went from being a clean-cut Eagle Scout and deacon in the Mormon church to a clean-cut but alleged fentanyl drug lord on the darknet. When
When thinking about "girl scout cookies" you should be thinking about the triumphant Juliette Gordon Low story. Find out more here!
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While I don't often hold stock in random pronouncements by magazines, I'm shocked and thrilled that Entrepreneur Magazine named Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit Industries, as their 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. Limor runs a $4.5 million company with 25 employees and she produces some of the coolest electronic gadgets around.
There are a number of conservative Boy Scout alternatives—which one is right for you?
Juliette Gordon Low, née Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon, (born October 31, 1860, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.—died January 18, 1927, Savannah), founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Juliette Gordon was born into a prominent Georgia family. She was educated at private schools in Virginia and New York City and for some years thereafter traveled widely. She married William M. Low, a fellow native of Savannah, Georgia, who was living in England, in 1886. Her interest in the Scout movement stemmed from her friendship with Robert and Agnes Baden-Powell, who had organized the Boy Scouts and its sister
With tens of thousands of girls already enjoying the Cub Scout program and more young women poised to join the Scouts BSA program when it opens in February of 2019, there’s a lot of excitement around the programs offered by the Boy Scouts of America. In all of that excitement, it’s important to remember that
President Barack Obama views science exhibits during the 2015 White House Science Fair celebrating student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions, in the Red Room, March 23, 2015. The President talks with Emily Bergenroth, Alicia Cutter, Karissa Cheng, Addy O'Neal, and Emery Dodson, all six-year-old Girl Scouts, from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They used Lego pieces and designed a battery-powered page turner to help people who are paralyzed or have arthritis. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
If you never got your homemade gnocchi-making badge from the scouts (boy or girl), here's your chance to rectify the situation. Okay, maybe there aren't any badges or awards for portioning this rich ricotta mixture into bite-size morsels and letting them boil until they are perfectly soft. And you won't get a trophy for searing and mixing the gnocchi with fresh tomatoes, spinach, and delightfully herbaceous pesto. Turns out, really not a big deal there's no badge for this; the meal is its own reward.
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President Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
NBC journalist Ann Curry has reported from some of the most brutal environments in the country but after a recent hiking crisis she might want to bring some Boy Scouts along the next time she goes to Darfur.
Thinking about Germany for this year’s Thinking Day celebration? I found a terrific resource online to learn about Guiding in Germany. In Germany, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are not in separa…
These gluten-free samoas cookies are a homemade version of the beloved coconut Girl Scouts cookies that we know and love. Totally dairy-free too, these gluten-free caramel delites are a great snack everyone will love. Go bake a big batch today!
Thinking about Germany for this year’s Thinking Day celebration? I found a terrific resource online to learn about Guiding in Germany. In Germany, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are not in separa…
He plays the lovable narcissist in your favorite provocative comedies.
The Girl Scout Birthday is coming up on March 12, 2014, and the Alabama Women Bloggers’ March Madness Blog Challenge is focusing Wednesday’s on National Women’s History Month; the…
Be prepared, founder Juliette Gordon Low is cool AF!
A good, homemade girl scout recipe can't be beat! With that minty taste and shredded coconut here and there, these recipes are to die for!
Why a fight to exclude a 7-year-old could mean no Thin Mints for you.
The Scribe badge is part of the “It's Your World - Change It!” badge set introduced in 2011. It replaces the retired Write All About It badge. What is a Haiku? A haiku is an unrhymed three-line poem. It is based on a traditional Japanese poetic form. write the first and last lines with five syllables each, and the middle line with seven syllables. the pattern of syllables looks like this: Line 1: 5 syllables Line 2: 7 syllables Line 3: 5 syllables Here’s another way to visualize the same thing:
Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) has become a politically divisive, pro-abortion organization that has abandoned its mission years ago. GSUSA is the largest member organization of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), which aggressively promotes abortion and promiscuous sex on behalf of its 10 million members. WAGGGS states that “anyone who is […]
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