Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Crisps, cobblers, crumbles, and buckles are all fantastic ways to showcase fresh, seasonal fruit.  They can be made year-round with apples and pears in the colder months and berries and stone fruits in the summer.  No matter the variety, the fruit softens and  releases moisture in the oven, creating an irresistible contrast to the cakey or crispy topping.  The fruit’s natural sweetness also intensifies, eliminating the need for loads of extra sugar.  https://www.savoryonline.com/articles/buckle-cobbler-crumble-crisp-whats-the-difference/#:~:text=Whereas%20crisps%20and%20crumbles%20are,or%20a%20biscuit%2Dlike%20dough.  

dapper (adj.)

mid-15c., "elegant, neat, trim," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper "bold, strong, sturdy," later "quick, nimble," from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (source also of Old High German tapfar "heavy," German tapfer "brave"), perhaps with ironical shift of meaning, from PIE root *dheb- "dense, firm, compressed."  Later shifting toward "small and active, nimble, brisk, lively" (from c. 1600).  "Formerly appreciative; now more or less depreciative, with associations of littleness or pettyness" [OED].

also from mid-15c.

dap (n.)

fist-bump greeting, in African-American popular culture by 1972, with various theories as to origin and name meaning.  Probably imitative (dap was used in 19c. for the bounce of a ball or the skip of a stone on water).  https://www.etymonline.com/word/dapper 

 

Add chopped apples or grated vegetables or seeds to beans, soup, chili, meat loaf. 


greenhouse gas (countable and uncountableplural greenhouse gases)  noun 

Any gas (such as carbon dioxide, a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), or methane) that contributes to the greenhouse effect when released into the atmosphere by absorbing infrared radiation emitted by a planet's surface, thus increasing the surface temperaturehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greenhouse_gas#English  


June 5 is World Environment Day, which is recognized by the United Nations to promote worldwide awareness of the need and action to protect the environment. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in StockholmSweden, began on June 5 in 1972.  

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2822  June 5, 2024

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