Discussion thread -- SEVENTY-FIVE WORD WRITING CHALLENGE November 2013

Perpetual Man said:
Oooh waffles... the boys love waffles.
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recipe then.. This an old recipe first published in 1931 by Household magazine in their Searchlight cookbook.
Sour Milk Waffles
Ingredients 1 1/3 cups flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup sour milk 2 eggs, separated into two egg yolks and two egg whites
1 tbs sugar 1/4 cup melted shortening 1/2 tsp cinnamon or cardamon or nutmeg.
spray waffle iron with cooking oil spray or wipe with paper towel with cooking oil upon it. preheat. Sift flour, measure, and sift with salt and baking soda. reserve. In six cup bowl; Beat eggs yolks. Add sugar and shortening. Mix well on medium after each addition until fluffy. Add milk alternately with sifted dry ingredients to egg mixture. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture in thirds. Bake in hot waffle iron. dust with preferred spice. :)
 
jastius said:
recipe then.. This an old recipe first published in 1931 by Household magazine in their Searchlight cookbook.
Sour Milk Waffles
Ingredients 1 1/3 cups flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup sour milk 2 eggs, separated into two egg yolks and two egg whites
1 tbs sugar 1/4 cup melted shortening 1/2 tsp cinnamon or cardamon or nutmeg.
spray waffle iron with cooking oil spray or wipe with paper towel with cooking oil upon it. preheat. Sift flour, measure, and sift with salt and baking soda. reserve. In six cup bowl; Beat eggs yolks. Add sugar and shortening. Mix well on medium after each addition until fluffy. Add milk alternately with sifted dry ingredients to egg mixture. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture in thirds. Bake in hot waffle iron. dust with preferred spice. :)
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Somehow I think that your 1931 recipe, as good as it sounds, was updated somewhat more recently. :D
 
Parson said:
Somehow I think that your 1931 recipe, as good as it sounds, was updated somewhat more recently. :D
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they said to daub it with an oil soaked cloth which is pretty much a fire hazard. so i edited... i don't want anyone's house to burn down for a waffle.. that part was actually separate in the instructions of how to bake a waffle in general. i cut a bunch of that stuff.. ie. let bake until steam ceases to be expelled, gently lift one corner with a fork, put on covered platter in warm oven. etc. i also left out the part about checking your eggs are fresh by floating them in a bucket of cool well water. mixing cream of tarter into baking soda for baking powder... ;)
 
Why would they have to check that the eggs were fresh? They just gathered them that morning....
 
Victoria Silverwolf said:
Starbeast -- Tosses logic and reality out the window in a knockabout farce where anything can happen.
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Thank you for your review Victoria Silverwolf. I enjoyed reading that.



Some of you may have noticed, I wasn't around for a few weeks, my computer broke down. I missed the voting for the 75 October Challenge, and missed entering the 300 Challenge (and voting). That bummed me out.

I returned midway through this month, saw the November 75 Challenge, instantly thought of a story, but I couldn't narrow it down to make sense, plus the edited version was too much like Perpetual Man's submission. However, I came up with another angle and posted.

I read all the stories and I was immensely entertained by the entries, some were gritty, while other were surreal or comical. Good stuff. To bad this challenge wasn't in the 300, I'd love to see expanded versions of all the entries.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to review the stories this time around either, but at least I can join in the voting and list my big favorites.

Sincerely, the Creature From Space, STARBEAST :eek:
 
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Welcome back, Starbeast. Your absence was noted and you were missed.

Hope your computer situation is back to normal now. :)
 
Jastius thanks for that I will have to try that out soon. Perp Jr the Sequel really likes waffles so it will be worth a go to see what he makes of them.

SB - I really noticed that you were missing and am glad to have you back. It'd be interesting to see your original story sometime, great minds thinking alike and all that. ;)
 
Nice little space tale, woods, with an interesting resolution.

Zebra: Let the chips fall where they will--*crisp* little story that shows that context matters.
 
Had no intention of entering this one. I love my noir but after my kitten flavoured noir tale of a few months ago, which I enjoyed creating, (perhaps the most of all my entries) I felt I would be revising something I'd already done, even though detective fiction need not be hard-boiled, so I was okaywith breaking my 2 year run.

But... there's something insidious about these challenges that really gets under your skin. I love using them as a tool for improving my writing and giving up 'because it's hard' kind of defeats the object.

So, here I am in a dance studio in Hackney overseeing choreographic process of screeching year 11 girls on a Saturday, and in between reining them in, and changing the music from Drake to Bear McCreary, I thought I'd throw something together.

1 draft, 2 edits, 27 minutes, so don't expect fireworks :D

pH
 
Just made it in, by the enamel of my teeth... Having not voted in the 300 worder, I almost missed this! (note to self: adjust watch manually when there are 30 days in September, or you lose a day!!!). Haven't read any others, that's a treat in store!
 
Well, I'm in. And with the story I'd thought about on Day 1, no other having occurred to me in the meantime. I wanted to secrete something in the piece as TDZ has done, but inspiration failed.

Anyhow, that brings us up to 45 entries. I was hoping to get over 50, so c'mon, folks, we need another 5. Late posters, get on with it! Only a few hours left now.
 
Boneman -- Offers multiple layers of surprises in this twisting and turning cat and mouse game.

The Judge -- Provides an affectionate spoof of the works of a noted author, and works in a complex pun to boot.
 
Not a genre I'm very comfortable with . I do enjoy a good film noir; my entry is definately not that though!
 
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