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On 11 Nov, 09:06, "Zimmy" wrote: "Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in ... I went to see an exhibition about the women's suffrage movement in Edinburgh today (at the Museum of Edinburgh in the High Street, formerly Huntly House). *Pretty crappy display considering the effort they'd put into publicizing it, but one interesting note. The suffragettes ...

In article , Interesting set of connections. The building dates from the 1790s, and had become the Edinburgh Temperance Hotel by 1849. By the 1990s it was Nicolson's Cafe, which is where J.K. Rowling started writing the first Harry Potter book. Isn't that on the opposite side of the road? -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

"Jean B." wrote: Hello all, I have been transcribing some old recipes and see a few mentions of Boston Yeast Powder. At first, I thought this was a dry yeast, but now I am wondering whether it was actually baking powder. I don't suppose anyone here knows what it was? -- Jean B. The 'Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink' says this: 'For the last half of ...

The author has marked this message not to be archived. This post will be deleted on October 10, 2009. On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:57:56 -0400, Jean B. wrote: It is odd and totally coincidental that this group has been totally moribund, and we posted at about the same time. I didn't even notice that nobody has posted here for... 35 days? Eeek. I was really posting it to RFC and...