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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels July 19, 2004 Food & History Baking an impossible pie Jeff Cheek How do you introduce a recipe for an Impossible Pie? Easy. You search through your files to find some trivia that is interesting, but was impossible to use in previous columns. Impossible facts to introduce an Impossible Pie. Like this: Do you know that armadillos and humans are the only animals who can catch leprosy? Remember your high school typing class? We typed the sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," because it was the shortest sentence using all 26 letters in the alphabet. Did you know that stewardesses is the longest word that is typed using only the left hand? Have you ever used the expression "rule of thumb?" Do you know the source? It comes from common law in medieval England. A man could not beat his wife with any object wider than his thumb. The city of Los Angeles translates as "the city of angels." The full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" (The city of our lady queen of the angels of Porciuncula). How would you like to fit all 55 of those letters on your driver's license? It was shortened to Los Angeles. Al Capone was a notorious gangster. He could hardly list that as his occupation on his business cards, so he identified himself as a dealer in used furniture. The merciless killer was afraid of needles, so he refused to take a blood test until cerebral syphilis had almost destroyed his brain. After Capone's death in 1947, his son changed his name and lived anonymously in Florida, supporting himself as a community college instructor. Have you noticed that our pennies and nickels have smooth edges, but there are ridges on dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars? When gold coins were in circulation, thieves would grind off a thin layer from the edges and sell the gold dust. The government added the ridges to stop this. Copper pennies and nickels were not worth the time and labor the criminals would have to expend. Everyone is counting calories today. Every activity has been calibrated as to how many calories it uses. Licking a stamp burns one tenth of one calorie. In Israel, the glue used on postage stamps is certified kosher. A rock band once chose the name Three Dog Night. We owe the aborigines of Australia for this expression which indicates a bitterly cold night. To keep from freezing on an unusually cold night in the outback, they needed the heat generated by three dogs in their bed to stay warm. The Lapps in Northern Europe used dogs to cure stomachaches. Lie down with a dog on your abdomen and the pain will be transferred from your body to the canine. Here is some unique math trivia. If you multiply 111, 111 ,111 times 111, 111, 111 the answer is 12345678987654321. Convert the fraction 1 over 81 to a decimal and the answer is .012345679012345679 to infinity. The impossible part of Impossible Pie is that some of the flour will sink to the bottom, making a thin crust. Ingredients 4 eggs, well beaten 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup flour 1 cup shredded coconut Preparation Beat eggs, add milk and vanilla, beat again. Add sugar, then flour, beating each time. Stir in coconut and pour into buttered pie pan. Bake at 350 degrees 45 to 50 minutes. Serve. DailyTidings.com Home Page Valley&State | Backpage | O&E | Sports | Archives | Weather | Classifieds Columnists | Faith&Beliefs | Obituaries | Revels | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2004 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams