The Spittin' Sisters Share Martha Washington's Pitted Cherry Preserves

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By Spittin in Michigan (aka our dear Lisa Catherine Brown)

Again Spittin’ Sisters are on a serendipitous wave length. While PA Sister Anne was seeking Sweet Freedom Bakery, MI Sister Lisa was searching Founding Father recipes and hit the jackpot! Here is one I love for the sheer spittin’ audacity due our founding fathers.

George Washington may or may not have chopped down the cherry tree, but he was a spittin’ cherries for certain! This recipe for preserves is intended to cook and eat fresh out of the jar - a scoop to add to yogurt, ice cream or over angel food or cheesecake. Perfect to take on a picnic with crackers too, as we are headed to Ottawa State Park to greet Mitt Romney’s “Throw the Middle Class Under the Bus Tour”. Have dog crate, will travel! Use your imagination!

I have followed The Shiska in the Kitchen blog for over a year now and I can assure you she knows her way around a kitchen. Here she interprets Martha Washington’s original recipe with her modern touches using a cherry pitting tool!

She also gives a good history lesson, so please read on: http://theshiksa.com/2011/07/01/martha-washingtons-preserved-cherries/

Martha’s Original Recipe:
TO PRESERUE CHERIES

Take 2 pound of faire cherries & clip of the stalks in ye midst. then wash them clean, but bruise them not. then take 2 pound of double refined sugar, & set it over ye fire with a quart of faire water in ye broadest preserving pan or silver basen as you can get. Let it seeth till it be some what thick, yn put in yr cherries, & let them boyle. keepe allwayes scumming & turning them gently with a silver spoon till they be enough. when they are cold, you may glass them up & keep them all the year.

The Shiska’s Version:

INGREDIENTS

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Joe Pitts & C Street Boys | Recipe for Peach Rosemary Spritzers

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The Spittin’ Sister in Philadelphia has a major headache this morning. I was reading about Joe Pitts and The Family until the wee hours of the morning. Today I tackle “C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy”.

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fundamentalist-American-Democracy-Readers/dp/0316091065/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1330648959&sr=8-4

I never thought that four decades after the women’s movement in America, I would be lying awake at 2am, trying to justify to voters of PA’s 16th district that the rights of a highly-decorated, grown woman, MBA-educated veteran with two children and an adoring husband — a pro-choice woman like Aryanna Strader — exceed those of a fertilized egg.

Rep. Joe Pitts believes that Aryanna Strader’s life is no more important than a zygote’s. They are equal in his mind — and I admit struggling with this idea on its most fundamental level.

Pitts is a co-sponsor of Duncan Hunter’s ‘Life at Conception Act’, introduced into the House Bills of Congress on Jan. 20, 2011.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112%3AH.R.374:

The list of Republicans in Congress who support personhood for zygotes and are ready to vote so under the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment is appalling — so much so that I went looking for a peach spritzer to calm my nerves.

As Shutterbean wrote one summer:

“OK my brain is mush. The point is…this spritzer is SUPER good. The best part is eating the syrupy rosemary peaches when you finish your glass! The rosemary does a nice job of cutting the sweetness of the drink. It’s also super good without the wine too! I sampled a little bit of the drink I made my pregnant friend. Tasty business. Make some!”

Peach & Rosemary Spritzers

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Small Town Aryanna Strader Voters Like Cupcake Liners, Too

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From Spittin’ Out the Pitts Facebook Page

The Spittin’ Sister in PA is reading Politico’s Op Ed piece “Fighting dirty against women” by Barbara Lee.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77503.html

Let’s hope it’s not a precursor of how Joe Pitts will handle Aryanna Strader when he wakes up and sees that she is a serious contender for PA 16th district House seat.

Lee writes about the debate swirling around Mass senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s heritage — does she have American Indian blood and did she try to capitalize on being a minority to get her position at Harvard? (Read on at WomenPatriots.org.)

These cheap shots are designed to knock women off our pedestals, where voters consider women generally to be higher integrity candidates.

As SOTP wrote yesterday, today’s women are hip to the strategy — and that’s not just New York City women or ones from LA.

We could have led this recipe for Blackberry peach crumb topped muffins with the classic peach and blackberry photo from Picky Cook on Facebook, as we’ve done here.

http://www.pickycook.com/breakfastandbrunch/blackberrypeachcrumbtoppedmuffins.aspx

But no — we chose the one with cupcake swirl muffin liners.

http://www.cupcakeswirl.com/index.php

Too sophisticated, you say? Small town folks don’t need muffin liners for their peach crumble muffins. All we cay say is that Picky Cook is from Minnesota and this muffin recipe is from the Blue Heron Coffee House.

http://www.blueheroncoffeehouse.com/wp/

Pretty sophisticated little coffee house in small town America — the Blue Heron.

“The driving force behind the Blue Heron Coffeehouse has always been our passion for providing good food and service to our community. With our large repertoire of recipes, culinary adventurism and commitment to quality we are able to offer a diversity of menu items that promote food that is local, seasonal and organically grown. We also advocate for sustainability and bio-diversity and cultivate a sense of community and a gathering space to support local growers, artists and musicians.”

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Women's Strike Force-Sponsored Group Banned at VA Republican Party Convention

The Spittin’ Sister from Philadelphia send love to the Women’s Strike Force of Virginia.

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The Republican Party of VA has rejected an application by Women’s Strike Force to sponsor a table at the Virginia Republican Convention this weekend. RPV says they “lost” the application of the new VA-based pro-choice PAC led by Republican Katherine Waddell. The Women’s Strike Force is dedicated to defeating VA lawmakers determined to highjack women’s rights and reproductive health. More about WSF.

If he was alive, Thomas Jefferson would be inviting the Women’s Strike Force folks to Monticello. Not only was abortion legal and widely advertised, when America was founded.

Founding father Thomas Jefferson was also a firm believer in the separation of church and state and worked to RESOLVE conflicts among delegates

Here is a Monticello recipe for Peach Cream, Thomas Jefferson Style.

Thomas Jefferson was fond of ice cream. This recipe for Peach Cream is based on one found in Marie Kimball’s book about Monticello.

If you don’t have one of those shiny things MItt Romney’s advisor talks about in your kitchen, get out the potato masher or a mighty fork. A hand mixer will also do the job for those without a Cuisinart.

6 ripe peaches
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups cream
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon almond extract

1. Peel peaches. To easily remove skins, bring 5 inches of water to a boil in a stock pot. Put peaches in boiling water for 30 seconds. Remove and put into an ice water bath. The skins should practically slip off.

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Catholic Bishops Hats Inspire Coconut Shrimp Recipe

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The Catholic bishops are having a powwow today, plotting their next moves against American women in the name of religious freedom.

Don’t be fooled — this ‘ol boys club intends to retake full control of every breath we take. While not Catholic, PA’s Congressman Joe Pitts is deeply embedded in the same theology, one based on (mostly white) MEN RULE!!

Looking at those damn hats that symbolize their demand to rule over us like kings, the Spittin’ sisters share this recipe for coconut shrimp. We trust you see the resemblance.

Ingredients:

1 lb (24) large shrimp, peeled and deviened (weight after peeled)
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp shredded sweetened coconut
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp panko crumbs
2 tbsp all purpose flour (you will only use 1 tbsp)
1 large egg
pinch salt
non-stick spray (I used my misto)

For the Sweet and Spicy Dipping Sauce:

1/2 cup apricot preserves (you can use sugar free if you wish)
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
3/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

Directions:

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Nonpartisan WomenPatriots.org To Track Women Candidates, Issues In Original 13 States

1913 Suffragettes on their way to BostonI have two new exciting projects to share with AOC readers. The first is WomenPatriots.org, a nonpartisan website dedicated to following 2012 women candidates, with a special focus on races in the original 13 colonies. The website should be fully operational by June 15.

The second project is ‘Spittin’ Out the Pitts’, currently a Facebook fan page and soon a newsletter. ‘Spittin’ Out the Pitts’ is a totally separate project, a partisan campaign dedicated to electing Aryanna Strader in PA’s 16th district. SOTP is a national effort that seeks to position Aryanna Strader on a national platform. The project will also take on an additional two-four progressive women candidates.

Aryanna Strader’s opponent and current Republican House Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. Pitts is the sponsor of HR 358 Protect Life Act, aka “Let Women Die” bill, and a long list of other bills determined to make contraception and abortion increasingly unavailable in America.

Joe Pitts is a member of the C Street gang and also The Famly. Author Jeff Sharlet spent time inside The Family in 2002 and wrote a book about it. Read Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America’s secret theocrats from Harper’s.

WomenPatriots.org will follow issues of key importance to women, with a strong focus on the views of women candidates on economic recovery, job creation, debt reduction, and social issues including women’s reproductive health — closely tied to women functioning in an economically stable way.

My focus is the original 13 colonies, because not only was abortion legal when America was founded, but the lines of demarcation between church and state were far stronger than American Catholics and other Christian evangelicals express in their revisionist history speeches.

From yesterday’s AOC French Roast News:

About 200 people rallied in Philadelphia on Friday, demanding that the federal government stop what they perceive to be “morally offensive” health-care regulations. The protest — part of 150 rallies in America yesterday under the banner “Stand Up for Religious Freedom” — had symbolic meaning due to its location at Independence Hall, home of the Liberty Bell.

Catholics stood proudly yesterday, embracing the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia as their symbol of religious freedom. In fact, when America was founded, Catholics were a tiny minority in the original 13 colonies. The first federal census of 1790 found America to have 3,939,000 citizens, with about 25,000 Catholics in residence.

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