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accent deafness
When I got home that night, I told Better Half all about our day, and he was particularly amused by one part of the story: E and I had been talking for about an hour before she and I reali{s/z}ed that we were both American. BH is constantly bemused by my accent-deafness and will quiz me after any brief conversations with strangers who have an accent of the British Isles that's not the local accent. I've usually been paying no attention to the accent and have to take a wild guess. Now he's started saying "What was {his/her} accent?" after we pass people in the street who are American. (Even if I haven't been listening, I guess 'American' because that's all he's asking me about now. He never expects anything more specific than 'American', happily.)
My excuse for missing E's accent is that she's from New York State too, and when I am talking to someone with the same accent as me, I tend not to cotton on to the fact that they have an accent. It's that old "I don't have an accent, everyone else does" syndrome, that's so faulty, but so easily slipped into. (The only problem with this theory is that she's not from the same part of the state as me, and so once I knew where she was from, I started to notice some differences in our vowels. I suppose I could use the excuse "I was too worried about the fate of my firstborn to pay attention to accents.")
I do notice American accents that aren't as similar to mine--particularly midwestern and southern ones spoken by tourists. Or loud exchange students from any part of the country--and most of them are loud (and plenty of tourists are too). They haven't learn{ed/t} to lower their volume when outside the States, and they seem to think of their conversations on trains and in restaurants as performances that anyone should be able to have a seat for. I think this has a lot to do with different senses of 'privacy' in the different countries--loud-talking Americans may be hoping that you'll join them in the conversation. But you know what? That's fodder for a separate blog post.
So, I often miss accents. I rarely pay any attention to the sounds of others' speech--I skip straight to the words and meaning. Is it any surprise that I became a lexical semanticist rather than a phonetician?
Of course, it's possible that it's not just me--maybe accent deafness is an American condition. We're fairly sensitive to some differences within America--e.g. north v(s). south--but the British are very sensitive to ways of speaking due in part to the connection between accent and social class. Some evidence in favo(u)r of American Accent Deafness: sometimes American tourists don't seem to reali{s/z}e that I'm American--for instance when they stop me on the street for directions or start up a conversation in a (chiefly BrE) queue. And I've also had the experience of Americans in the US thinking I'm British just because I have an address in England. While my accent has changed a bit since moving here, it's still very definitely American. (Maybe they just don't know a lot about British accents--but I don't have that excuse.)
I should be clear here, the 'deafness' is more like inattention. I can hear the difference between accent A and accent B--I just have to think fairly consciously about them to do so.
So, are there more tales out there like that of E and me? And is it an American thing?
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My experience chimes with yours. I'm Australian, and have a number of times noticed that people from the US who have been living here for some time can't recognise accents. Most recently, I was on a plane to the US sitting next to a young man, actually Canadian now I think of it. I said I was travelling for a conference. He asked me how it had been, clearly assuming I was going home to the US after the conference. When I laughed and explained I was Australian going to the US, he said that after a year in Sydney in a fairly mixed student environment, he simply could no longer tell where anyone was from by their accents.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, I'm glad to know that it's not just me. A few months in Australia were enough to make me a tad deaf to dialectal differences in my native tongue. Of course I can spot my fellow countrymen (they'll be the ones speaking Portuguese here), but sometimes I think they're from my state when they're from another with a very marked accent.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I don't know. I'm a US midwesterner, and I'm fairly attuned to accents, I think. Particularly US ones (I can tell Texas from Florida), but some UK variations as well. In a number of cases, I can identify the British accent and even replicate it (badly) but don't have a label to tack onto it. I'm can point to the half-swallowed Liverpudlian sound, the BBC Received Oxfordian sound, and at least one or two variations on Londonese -- I think.
I get identified as American within a few words here in Oxford. My equally American spouse tends to pass as "not from the UK but learned his English in a British system" much more easily. I blame his Colonial British grandmother for that.Somewhat OT, but is it common for AE visitors to England or Canada, or vice versa, to begin to unintentionally mimic some of the accents?
I recently spent about 12 days in Vancouver, BC, and fairly quickly heard myself saying 'owt' as the Canadians do, and even using 'eh?'. I've lived all over the Mid- and Western US, and I've noticed that when I go back to visit family in the Midwest, I shortly begin to sound like them, too.
I have to say that I can't distinguish between most of the accents here in the US - I can't tell Texan from Georgian, for instance - but perhaps I just haven't been exposed to both at once so as to tell the differences.I notice this, as well. My Brit wife is always pointing out Americans to me and I can never tell by listening to them. I have heard other American expats tell of the same thing. I think it's because, having been here so long, the British accent sounds 'normal' to me but so does an American accent. So when I hear either a local British accent or an American accent, I don't notice anything unusual. Granted, a southern American accent or radically different UK accent (e.g. Geordie) will catch my attention.
ReplyDeleteHow long would the speaker of any English variant need before his dialect could be guessed at strictly by his diction? I mean, say, via the written world. I wonder how much of one's identification process uses the accent as a secondary, reinforcing feature.
As for my abilities, such as they are: I can usually ID an Australian (to no further level of refinement [and I've heard South African correspondents which made me wonder whether they were from Australia or if these features were indigenous]), Scottish from more Queen's English from Cockney (other areas of the UK sound different, but I couldn't ID Wales from East Anglia from Kent from...). It occurs to me that what little exposure I have to different UK accents come from dramas where the accents might be similar to those US accents affected by actors in the US who sound nothing like what they should.- Anonymous30 June, 2008 14:05
I think I'd say a crèche is a place, but nursery is more analogous to "daycare" in your sentence -
*started crèche
started nursery
started daycare
I dropped my daughter off at the crèche
?I dropped my daughter off at nursery
I have to stop at this point as I need a cup of tea - I'm having dialect blindness and forgetting what sounds "right" to me!
(BrE comment in case you hadn't already guessed!) Sarra--thanks for that. BH (BrE speaker) is saying 'started creche' too (he checked this entry before I posted it)--but this probably has more to do with newness to parenting than dialect!
Jo & JHM, what dialects you can tell apart is a different issue than whether you always notice when someone is speaking in those dialects, though. You'll only know if you're not noticing if there is someone there to point out to you that you've not noticed it, so it's a difficult thing to self-report about.- Anonymous30 June, 2008 14:41
A similar thought to this occurred to me through reading this blog, watching BBC America and re-reading "The Secret Garden" fairly recently.
I don't know about accent deafness per se, especially when it referrs to hearing your accent in an out of context place, but it really seems that accents mean a whole lot more in the UK than they do here. Especially when it comes to self awareness of an accent.
In the Secret Garden, there are a few scenes where those speaking with a Yorkshire accent are very aware of their accent and know to modify things for Mary. (of course, this being a work of fiction, I don't know how accurate it is.)
Whereas in the US, that sort of thing is much rarer...as evidenced by the "Two Yutes" scene in "My Cousin Vinny" Sure that scene is a hightened example, but I have seen that sort of thing happen more than once in real life, especially being from New England. (My second grade teacher was not from Mass. and yelled at all of us for saying "Rulah" Of course we all had no idea what she was talking about, as we all began saying "Ruler" to ourselves with no hint of accent.)
Of course, the readers of this blog are a bit more attuned to accents than the average person, so you may not have it happen personally, but I am sure you have come across this sort of thing.
So maybe Accent deafness is much more prevalent for an American in general? - Anonymous30 June, 2008 16:34
This happened to me once while visiting Israel. There's such a huge variation in accents and English speaking ability and I end up concentrating so hard on understanding the words. I once spent a good 10 minutes with someone who had moved to Tel-Aviv after being raised in Michigan before I figured out that she was actually American and I wasn't struggling to understand her.
I am hopeless with accents English accents from outside the U.S. Aussie, New Zealand, South Africa, England ... they do sound different when I hear them, but I cannot identify which is which.
I do know I cannot understand a word the Queen says. She sounds like she's got a mouth full of marbles, and Prince Charles is almost as bad. I admit I have also occasionally turned on the closed captioning when watching British TV shows. I have no problem with the BBC radio broadcasters though. I think a lot of the problem determining an American accent might be what I've heard called the "paralanguage"--that is, tone, word choice, etc. I have a friend who lived in London for about 10-15 years, and now lives in Lexington, KY. Her accent is American midwest, or at this point, even a bit southern, but it's her manner of speaking that makes her sound British still--she enunciates her words in a more pronounced, clipped manner; she asks more questions with the tone going down at the end, rather than going up; etc.
I've lived in England and visited Australia and New Zealand a couple of times, which has completely confused me--I often mistake certain English accents for 'Strine.- Anonymous30 June, 2008 17:18
Hi, not commented before but love your blog! Oh and I speak BrE by the way (that said, I sometimes think half the fun of reading the comments is working out where the commenters are from!)
On the creche/nursery/daycare thing, I would only say 'creche' if it was attached to a specific organisation and meant to be used by the organisation's employees / students / customers etc. In this case you mention it's the campus creche. Otherwise, it's a nursery. - Anonymous30 June, 2008 18:08
Hi, first comment to a very thought provoking blog.
I'm wondering if there is an inclusive-exclusive difference between the US and UK, in that the US will be more inclusive, so don't notice accents, whilst the UK will be more exclusive so do notice accents more. In the UK there is a strong desire to pigeon-hole people, and accents is a great way of doing this - ah! a Yorkshireman, that means.... (for example).
BrEng - Anonymous30 June, 2008 19:21
Another place that shows the difference in how much accents matter is in something I once read about the show Coupling. Apparently, part of the "joke" of Jeff's character was that he is Welsh.
Not sure where I read that, but it is something that I doubt most American's get. I had a similar experience recently, although with a completely different outcome. Let me first say that I currently live in Latin America, and don't hear much English unless it's with a thick Chilean accent, and I try to avoid that by just continuing to speak in Spanish whenever that happens, but about a month ago I ran into two girls from London traveling through Santiago. I'm from New England originally, so I'm not too familiar with British accents (and I usually turn on the subtitles when I'm watching British shows on TV), but I actually didn't even realize they were speaking English at first. Their accent seemed so far removed from what my idea of English is, that I didn't recognize it. I thought it was German or Dutch or something like that for awhile. Does that make me language deaf?
Also, I find it really interesting that I can hear a huge differences between, say, someone from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, someone from Downeast Maine, or someone from Boston, yet I can't tell the difference between someone from England or New Zealand confidently. All I hear in their speech is that they're decidedly not from North America.
Love your blog. It's really entertaining to read about all the differences across the sea.In my American experience, a creche is a Christmas decoration, the Bethlehem manger scene, with animals, Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, etc. "The baby started creche" makes no sense at all. Your blog is the first I've seen the word creche in this context. Strange. LOVE this blog.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous30 June, 2008 22:12
There is actually a post on Creches already:
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/12/creches-cribs-and-cots.html ...and you can get to that post about crèches by clicking on the link that I put on the first occurrence of the word 'créche' in this post.
[Thanks, bill!]- Anonymous30 June, 2008 23:08
I'm an American who's been living in Holland for a year and a half. My main friends here in Holland are all from the various English-speaking nations. When I first got here everyone's accent was very pronounced and I could tell who was English, who was Irish, etc. Now I hardly hear any accents at all. Does it maybe have something to do with simply being happy to hear native English rather than dutch English?
ReplyDelete - Anonymous30 June, 2008 23:25
Some of the commenters have mentioned that they couldn't understand people from a different English speaking country to begin with, but I don't think it's limited to just that. When I hear someone speak in an accent that I'm not used to not matter which country they're from I can very easily struggle to understand them. Today I heard someone from London speaking and it took me a few seconds before I could actually understand a word of it, but I'm from only about 100 miles North in Leicestershire.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous01 July, 2008 01:42
I'm an Australian but (from my accent) so many people reckon I'm English it's not funny! Apparently I speak more carefully or something (but I definitely use Australian pronunciations of words, like "dance" with a flat a or "auction" with a short o, or flapping and dropping t's in various places like Americans do).
Anyway, when I hear real Australian accents on American tv shows it sounds odd but it takes a while to realise it's actually an Australian. On the other hand when travelling through London and Scotland I was able to identify Australians almost straight away, and usually they identified me too. I doubt I missed any. More Englishfolk mistook me for English when I was in England than Australians.
I once had reason to immitate an American accent around Americans, much to their myrth. Since then I've even been able to tell Australians and English actors on TV using fake American accents --- we can never to the "r" right, it sounds harsher --- the Americans reckon it sounds Canadian, but maybe by "Canadian" they just mean "foreign". I certainly use "English" to mean "foreign". - Anonymous01 July, 2008 04:34
I lived in London for 2 years and think I know what you are talking about. Though I could always tell AmE from BrE when I was engaging someone in conversation, I did get to the point where background chatter or passive listening to the TV became indistinguishable. I think it's because both sounded "normal" after I had acclimated to hearing various British accents. At the same time, I always amazed by colleagues by picking out Canadian accents. Apparently, Canadian and American sound the same to many British ears, while I actually found it easier to distinguish them over there then back home (perhaps because Canadians in the UK were less likely to "Americanize" their speech).
ReplyDelete I'm afraid my own experience is completely different. I feel like my "accent" recognition has become even more sensitive since moving here 5-1/2 years ago.
When I overhear an American accent here in Oxfordshire (or in London), I'm often right on the nose about where in the US it has come from. And I'm rarely wrong when I guess somebody is Canadian - although I have to admit that sometimes, if not sure, I'll say, "Where in North America are you from?". (I personally believe it's worse to think a Canadian is an American than vice-versa!)
In our household, I'm the one who quickly spots an American accent. John (British) will eventually notice, but it takes him longer to do so.
JanetA post about accents and creches? Seems like the perfect opportunity to wheel out the old gag:
A creche is a car accident in Surrey.I'm an American who has been living in England for 3 years. I feel that I've gotten better at recognising where people are from based on their accents. I think that many Americans just aren't exposed to the wide variety of accents heard around the UK. I don't think I've become deaf to American accents, but I have to be paying attention to how they say things rather than what they're saying.
Just the other day, though, my husband said that a Canadian that he works with told him she was surprised at how quickly he lost his American accent (which he hasn't).- Anonymous01 July, 2008 19:38
I think that the small exposure to accents in general, plus them "meaning" less in the US also explains why Americans don't have issues usually with actors putting on an Americna accent...because really, it doesn't matter that much.
But the opposite is very true in the UK (from what I am led to believe.) If an American actor is playing a character from North London, yet his accent is more South London...it is noticed immediately. - Anonymous02 July, 2008 01:28
I think Isabelle has a good point, talking about paralanguage. I've noticed that (five years later) far fewer people comment on my British accent than they did when I first moved to the US. I still have a British accent, so am forced to conclude that it is things like vocabulary and tone that have changed.
Another interesting thing is my four year old daughter's accent. Americans think she sounds British, British people think she sounds American.
Andd Lynne - you are certainly not alone in your accent deafness. Mine is only lifting these days because I make a more active effort to try and notice people's accents. I grew up in the Seattle area and then moved to Rochester for college (an accent which I've been careful not to pick up), and people in the States always mistake me for British. I'm 22 and it's only recently that someone's been able to explain why they think that to me. Apparently it has something to do with me over enunciating my words slightly, and the fact that I use a large educated sounding vocabulary and give off an impression of being a bit snobby. This seems like it supports the theory that Americans are looking more for behavior cues rather than accent per se.
And then there's the summer i spent in Israel last year where all the Israelis I met thought I was French or Venezuelan. (In both Hebrew and English.) That one still baffles me.- Anonymous02 July, 2008 03:12
My first job out of college was in a small town in northern Georgia. One day I (recently from California) realized I couldn't hear the Southern accent anymore. I turned in my resignation the following week and moved back to the West Coast.
ReplyDelete There's more to this than meets the ear, or the anecdote. It calls for a scientific study. There are so many variables.
Often I am told, when e.g. I distinguish a NZ accent from an OZ one, here in Florida, that I "must have musical ear." But my own (anecdotal) experience is that musical and linguistic parts of the brain are quite separate. (qv that Brit musicians may speak Cockney or Liverpudlian but sing American.)
Many years ago a (classical) musician on the BBC got PO'd at people who claim that only Italians can truly enunciate Italian. He presented six arias, of which only one was Italian, challenging anyone to tell the difference. I spotted the true Italian immediately. And I don't speak Italian!
So, there are musicians who are deaf to accents, and linguists who are deaf to music. (I think)
Reverting to anecdote,I was born in 1939 and spent my first 4 years in places as dissimilar as Frome, Doncaster, and Clacton. So, I learned three accents in my first 4years of life.
What did this do to my brain? (No Essex or Encino jokes, please.)
All I know is that I now have what I call the brain of a parrot. I speak French and German with impeccable accent, but not much understanding
And at this point I'm having trouble coming to a conclusion. So help me.- Anonymous02 July, 2008 09:58
I'm going to agree about paralanguage too. My accent has not disappeared (SoCal, but 18 years now in England), but in order to be understood I have had to enunciate slightly more and use words and phrases that I would not have used in California. What is interesting is how many people say, when I go back, that I have an English accent; no British person would ever agree and I am often still asked where I am from.
And I too have met a few Americans/Canadians who still have an obvious accent but who believe they do not. I met a Canadian the other day who was entirely surprised that I knew he wasn't British. However, the first time I encountered an American who had lived here for some time, I was convinced she was British. After I spoke to her and she realized I was American, she suddenly changed to an American accent, in mid-sentence. She said she had consciously changed her accent because she was tired of being the odd one out in her social group. I still am amazed, because I can't imitate the accent for the life of me, and make my children laugh when I try. What people are calling 'enunciating', I'd probably call 'losing part of one's accent'. E.g., it's not natural to pronounce /t/ as [t] between vowels in AmE, it's AmE to use a flap there. I'd say that 'enunciating' the /t/ = accommodating BrE, i.e. giving up one's accent a little bit, rather than just 'paralanguage'.
When I first moved away from home, and ever since, I've been accused of mumbling. When I go back home, the accusations die down. Then I read in some linguistic text (can anyone tell me which? I want to find it again) that a 'mumbling' quality is part of the Rochester accent/dialect. So now I see lack-of-mumbling as part of my accent accommodation in the UK (though many people who know me probably think I'm doing a rotten job of not-mumbling!).- Anonymous02 July, 2008 20:05
Accent deafness might be an American condition, but if you're from Long Island like I am (with parents born and raised in Brooklyn), well, you don't have to say too much before someone asks you if you're from New York!
My accent is better now, but pronouncing D-A-W-N still gets me every time! I am an American married to a Brit, living in the US. It took our daughters about 10 years to realize that Daddy has an accent. They knew that other Brits (including my in-laws) spoke with accents, but Daddy was just Daddy.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous02 July, 2008 22:21
I'm English, but have lived in the US since 1989 (i.e since I was 22).
I have also found that I don't notice whether someone has an accent as readily as I used to, however if I do notice (or, more usually, if it's pointed out to me!), then I can generally identify the accent. I have definitely improved in my ability to identify North American accents, compared to when I lived in England, but am probably a little weaker in pin-pointing English ones.
For people listening to me, Americans say I sound English, but in the UK I'm told I sound American. I believe (and have been told) that the vocabulary, sentence structures and emphases that I use are generally American, but the pronunciation (vowel sounds, chiefly) is generally English.
Oh, and when I first moved to the US (Texas), I was frequently told that I sounded like I came from New York! - Anonymous03 July, 2008 04:10
Janet said "I personally believe it's worse to think a Canadian is an American than vice-versa!"
That's certainly what most British people I met thought. I can't tell you how many people asked me if I was Canadian, or assumed I was. For the record, I don't sound Canadian at all. - Anonymous03 July, 2008 18:14
Can I just point out here, although I am amazed it should be necessary at this blog, that EVERYONE has an accent as long as they can speak. Your accent refers to how you speak, the stresses and the sounds of your words. However you speak is your accent, regardless of where you come from or where you are or anything else.
Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine. - Anonymous06 July, 2008 22:41
I'm an American (NJ, then CA) but have been living in England (Cambrideshire) for 14 years. I have become much more sensitive to accents since I have been in the UK. I can distinguish accents here in the UK quite well now (although I cannot always actually identify them by region), and I am now also much more sensitive to various American accents than I was before I came to the UK. My wife, however, is quite accent deaf. She is a native speaker of Chinese (Mandarin and Taiwanese) and learned English in California. For her there are only two English accents--those she can understand and those she can't. Interestingly, she has the same problem in Chinese, and is equally insensitive to accents in either of her Chinese languages. I am fairly fluent in Mandarin and notice Chinese accents as easily as I notice those in English. I suspect that the ability to identify accent is independent of whether one is speaking one's native language or a language learned later. Last comment--my English-accented children, like those of anonymous, burst into laughter whenever I attempt to mimic a British accent. However, I can mimic various Chinese accents fairly easily. That is, I can sound like an American who learned Chinese in, say, Taipei, or like an American who learned Chinese in Beijing. I have no idea why I can do this in a foreign language but not in my native language.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous10 July, 2008 04:28
I just got off the phone with a friend of my husband's who is getting married next month and wanted to ask about a gift for my husband who will be in the wedding party. He, the groom to be, is from Washington State and as I was talking to him, something about his voice, the accent or inflections, reminded me of a childhood friend of mine whose parents are English, who grew up in Connecticut and who went to college in Oregon and has been living in Hawaii for the past decade or so. This friend and I have only talked on the phone at length, not seen each other in person for the past decade. I thought maybe that Oregon/Washington State might be the connection.
I've also been surprised to hear and recognize a Connecticut accent while I was in Santa Fe. I was in a bookstore and I heard someone at the register that sounded like a friend of mine back in Connecticut. I had to get up to look to make sure it wasn't the friend it sounded like. It was someone else I knew from Connecticut. (We'd driven back to Connecticut together for winter vacation.) I surprised myself though in recognizing the Connecticut accent, I realized that Connecticut HAD an accent apparently.
I've also noticed my cousins' upstate New York accent. I'm not sure how narrow the regions are with distinguishable accents.
Both of these first two instances are just with audio clues, which may be easier. I know I only heard faint remainders of my father's Indiana/Kentucky accent when talking on the phone with him long distance.
Speaking of my first generation American friend, when he said "anything" it was the giveaway that I've heard in other first generation Americans with British parents. It was pronounced more like "enehthing" instead of "eneething".
I moved about a bit growing up, and was traveling when I was 18 and impressionable, traveling for a year immersed in a slew of different English-speaking accents. I apparently acquired a lilt- the English thought I was English but couldn't figure out where I was from and when I returned home, people definitely thought that I talked strangely. I couldn't hear it, though, but was self-conscious about it and overcompensated back to American.
I know I used to be able to mimic accents very well when I was in highschool before traveling. But since being exposed to a mash of accents, I can't maintain mimicry of one accent for long - it begins to come apart quickly, though it amuses me greatly when my husband goofs off and puts on all sorts of accents. My family plays an interminable but fun game of dominoes called Mexican train. When we get delirious as the game goes on and on, it's become a rule that we have to speak with some accent. It gets very silly. - Anonymous14 July, 2008 00:37
Maybe it's because I'm from accentless California, but I notice every little difference in American accents even though I always hated phonetics when I was getting my B.A. in linguistics.
But what struck me about your post ws your use of the phrase "cotton on to" -- I've always heard that phrase as "cotton to" (no "on"), but either way, no Californian would ever use that. Is it a regional American thing? You do know that Californians have accents, don't you JaxCA?
Cotton to and cotton on to mean different things (according to the OED and me). Cotton to = "to become drawn or attached to". Cotton on to = "a) to become attached to; to form a liking for; (b) to understand; to get to know about; also to cotton on, to 'catch on'."
Since I was using sense (b), only cotton on to works for me.- Anonymous14 July, 2008 19:58
Yes, but if you think people can't hear the difference when someone from the east coast pronounces "Mary," "merry," and "marry," they really can't hear an accent from a Californian! Other than surfers and valley girls, that is.
So are the "cotton" phrases regional? I don't think I've ever heard them anywhere other than on t.v. They still sound southern to me. Probably more old-fashioned than regional. The first example of 'cotton on to' in the OED is Australian from 1907, the next one is from D.H. Lawrence. Cotton to goes back another century still, with Dickens using it. So, no particular link to the American south, as far as the OED is concerned.
ReplyDeleteComing to this discussion fairly late, so apologies.
Two separate observations: I think here in Australia, we grow up exposed to a large variety of English accents because we source so much of our television content from the UK and North America, and also have substantial South African and New Zealander immigrants. So, we understand and spot languages pretty well, I'd say. What's surprising though is that when you are watching an American TV show, you hardly take any notice of the accent. It all seems quite normal. You know it's American, but you're not taking any notice, and you're certainly not having any difficulty understanding. But, the next minute, you might watch a programme where an American is among Brits, and the American accent is noticeable to the point of distraction.
Second observation: I'm pretty good at French. There are vast differences in accent in French too, and it is easy to pick up the most marked differences (Quebec, the accent from the South of France). But I find it very difficult to distinguish minor variations. Reading your post, it made a lot of sense that you are so focussed on getting the meaning of what is being said, and to be able to converse, that you don't/can't focus on the subtleties of the phonetics.We lived in the USA for 4 years, and as Australians were often asked if we were English.
Whilst living in the USA, we also noticed that a lot of heavy regional accents (especially from the UK) would be subtitled on television documentaries. This used to make us chuckle, since we could understand them perfectly.
And the other thing we noticed is that a lot of UK childrens' shows are dubbed with American voices in the USA, whereas in Australia, we just get the original voices. It was very odd not having Neil Morrisey as Bob the Builder, or Ringo Starr in Thomas the Tank Engine.- Anonymous04 November, 2008 11:29
I'm fairly accent-deaf. But my husband -- who is literally 80% deaf -- is a whiz at accents. He can mimic any English accent from anywhere in the world, except Geordie which he says is impossible for anyone.
He was brought up in both England and Australia, and thinks of himself as mostly Australian, although he is actually British. His normal accent is vaguely Londonish, but as soon as he's exposed to anything Aussie -- just watching a wildlife programme will do -- the Australian accent comes surging up. Completely involuntary on his part, and he never realises he's doing it. Hilarious to hear.
As for me, I was brought up in the USA in a completely American Midwestern family. When I was small, I was teased by my sister because I didn't pronounce vowels like the rest of the family -- but I don't know in what way. When I was a teenager the family moved to Texas, which I hated, and my main preoccupation was to avoid picking up any trace of local accent. I then became a raging Anglophile and trained my ear to English accents, although I avoided changing my own for "fitting in" reasons. I moved to the UK about 20 years ago.
I don't think I've ever had a particularly strong American accent. My present accent must be mid-Atlantic, because I've passed for English in the US, but am instantly spotted as North American here -- again, often pegged as Canadian because "your accent is very mild". Interesting blog. I see that this post was made about half a year ago, but you linked to this post in your most recent one so I figure you won't have a problem with me commenting on this one.
I don't think that you'd easily find accent deafness among native English speakers from the Caribbean. We're very well-connected to America through TV and music, to Britain through TV and radio, and to places like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India through cricket (both radio and TV), and we can easily tell that we sound quite different from all of them (well most of us do...maybe not the Bahamians so much), so I think I can safely say that we can generally recognise when someone has a non-Caribbean accent and, usually, roughly place that accent. Though we can tell some American accents apart, we generally don't find the Canadian accent(s?) distinct from American one(s?). We can usually guess English and Irish accents, but Australian, New Zealandic and South African accents sound alike. (And they sometimes sound British.) India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are, of course, distinct from the others, but I find it hard to tell among them. It's generally the same for the African accents.
Now that I'm studying at the University of the West Indies it's a matter of pride for me that I can distinguish most of the West Indian accents. Before I came here, however, the only ones I could tell distinctly were the Jamaican, Trinidadian and Barbadian accents (apart from my own Vincentian accent, of course). I would be able to tell when someone who was talking wasn't from any of those three islands, but I simply couldn't figure out which island (or if Guyana or Belize) it was.
Having said all that, I have a question that's marginally related to all of this. When I'm watching American or British TV it's usually the easiest thing in the world to understand what they're saying. But put the same American or Briton in front of me and I find it much more difficult to understand them. This is more the case for someone from, say, New York city than California. Do you have any idea of why that would be?TV speech probably differs from 'live' speech in a number of ways. The speech is often scripted, which means that the speaker is mentally processing it in a different way and more prepared for what's coming next. They're aware of the need to communicate clearly to a large audience, and they don't have feedback from that audience in order to gauge their receptiveness to what they're saying. You also have volume control on a television!
ReplyDeleteI'm from Baltimore (btw the "Bawlmer" accent is a bit of a myth, especially among younger people) and was an exchange student in the UK a few years ago and have been back a few times since. I was travelling solo in Yorkshire last year and it often took people a while to recognize I'm American. I'm softspoken but I was wearing jeans rather than trousers or skirts most of the time, which can be a pretty big clue as to my nationality ;) Perhaps I was a bit of a curiosity? I tended to get peppered with friendly questions as to why I was travelling alone so far from home.
Also, a few years ago at a party in London I ran into an American girl who's spent almost all of her life in the UK... and she would unconsciously switch her accent from UK to US when addressing me even in a group.- lammyl20 February, 2010 21:30
I think I am very sensitive to accents, although obviously being English I am better at distinguishing between English accents.
Nevertheless, accents are something I always notice.
Growing up in one of the mill towns of the North-West, there is such variation in accent that I can easily distinguish and place the accents of all the local towns, even my own village from the local town, even though these places are only 3-5 miles apart. To a local, the accents really are that distinct. I can remember watching a film that was supposed to be set in Derbyshire, and the actors were a mix of people from all over the North-West and from around Manchester. To me, it really jarred, because I could pinpoint where they were from and it kept interfering with my interpretation of the storyline.
I don't know if all areas of the UK have noticeable differences in accent over a small geographic area. I recently did a course abroad with people from across the UK. A girl from the South Coast claimed that there wasn't much variation in accent where she was from, while a man from Yorkshire also claimed that there was huge local accent variation where he was from (the area outlying Leeds). - Kacie28 April, 2010 00:18
Add me to the list of accent-deaf Americans. I can tell American vs. non-American. If the speaker says something completely obvious like 'y'all' or 'warsh the cah' I can guess northern vs. southern American. But that's it. Australian, English, Irish, Scottish, New Zealand, Welsh, all end up in the "not American but quite sexy" category.
ReplyDelete I had the same problem. After living in England for a study abroad for 4 months, I was so used to hearing British accents that I no longer recognized them as "foreign"--they sounded normal to me, along with American accents. I had to concentrate sometimes to figure out if they were American or British, which seems ridiculous, but that's the truth of it.


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Yousafzai also suggested that she knows public opinion might someday turn against her — especially if she enters into politics.
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- 1 pasilla chili
- 1 costena chili
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- 1 chili de arbol
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Our Future Destiny. 1a For we know that if our earthly dwelling,* a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven. 2* For in this tent we groan, longing to be further clothed with our heavenly habitationb 3if indeed, when we have taken it off,* we shall not be found naked. 4For while we are in this tent we groan and are weighed down, because we do not wish to be unclothed* but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.c 5Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God,d who has given us the Spirit as a first installment.*
6* So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord.e 9Therefore, we aspire to please him, whether we are at home or away. 10For we must all appear* before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.f
The Ministry of Reconciliation. 11* Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to your consciousness.g 12We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boast of external appearance rather than of the heart.h 13For if we are out of our minds,* it is for God; if we are rational, it is for you. 14* For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.i 15He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.j
16Consequently,* from now on we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer. 17k So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. 18* And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.l 20So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.m 21* For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin,n so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
* [5:1] Our earthly dwelling: the same contrast is restated in the imagery of a dwelling. The language recalls Jesus' saying about the destruction of the temple and the construction of another building not made with hands (Mk 14:58), a prediction later applied to Jesus' own body (Jn 2:20).
* [5:2–5] 2 Cor 5:2–3 and 4 are largely parallel in structure. We groan, longing: see note on 2 Cor 5:5. Clothed with our heavenly habitation: Paul mixes his metaphors, adding the image of the garment to that of the building. Further clothed: the verb means strictly "to put one garment on over another." Paul may desire to put the resurrection body on over his mortal body, without dying; 2 Cor 5:2, 4 permit this meaning but do not impose it. Or perhaps he imagines the resurrection body as a garment put on over the Christ-garment first received in baptism (Gal 3:27) and preserved by moral behavior (Rom 13:12–14; Col 3:12; cf. Mt 22:11–13). Some support for this interpretation may be found in the context; cf. the references to baptism (2 Cor 5:5), to judgment according to works (2 Cor 5:10), and to present renewal (2 Cor 4:16), an idea elsewhere combined with the image of "putting on" a new nature (Eph 4:22–24; Col 3:1–5, 9–10).
* [5:3] When we have taken it off: the majority of witnesses read "when we have put it on," i.e., when we have been clothed (in the resurrection body), then we shall not be without a body (naked). This seems mere tautology, though some understand it to mean: whether we are "found" (by God at the judgment) clothed or naked depends upon whether we have preserved or lost our original investiture in Christ (cf. the previous note). In this case to "put it on" does not refer to the resurrection body, but to keeping intact the Christ-garment of baptism. The translation follows the western reading (Codex Bezae, Tertullian), the sense of which is clear: to "take it off" is to shed our mortal body in death, after which we shall be clothed in the resurrection body and hence not "naked" (cf. 1 Cor 15:51–53).
* [5:4] We do not wish to be unclothed: a clear allusion to physical death (2 Cor 4:16; 5:1). Unlike the Greeks, who found dissolution of the body desirable (cf. Socrates), Paul has a Jewish horror of it. He seems to be thinking of the "intermediate period," an interval between death and resurrection. Swallowed up by life: cf. 1 Cor 15:54.
* [5:5] God has created us for resurrected bodily life and already prepares us for it by the gift of the Spirit in baptism. The Spirit as a first installment: the striking parallel to 2 Cor 5:1–5 in Rom 8:17–30 describes Christians who have received the "firstfruits" (cf. "first installment" here) of the Spirit as "groaning" (cf. 2 Cor 5:2, 4 here) for the resurrection, the complete redemption of their bodies. In place of clothing and building, Rom 8 uses other images for the resurrection: adoption and conformity to the image of the Son.
* [5:6–9] Tension between present and future is expressed by another spatial image, the metaphor of the country and its citizens. At present we are like citizens in exile or far away from home. The Lord is the distant homeland, believed in but unseen (2 Cor 5:7).
* [5:10] We must all appear: the verb is ambiguous: we are scheduled to "appear" for judgment, at which we will be "revealed" as we are (cf. 2 Cor 11; 2:14; 4:10–11).
* [5:11–15] This paragraph is transitional. Paul sums up much that has gone before. Still playing on the term "appearance," he reasserts his transparency before God and the Corinthians, in contrast to the self-commendation, boasting, and preoccupation with externals that characterize some others (cf. 2 Cor 1:12–14; 2:14; 3:1; 3:7–4:6). 2 Cor 5:14 recalls 2 Cor 3:7–4:6, and sums up 2 Cor 4:7–5:10.
* [5:13] Out of our minds: this verse confirms that a concern for ecstasy and charismatic experience may lie behind the discussion about "glory" in 2 Cor 3:7–4:6. Paul also enjoys such experiences but, unlike others, does not make a public display of them or consider them ends in themselves. Rational: the Greek virtue sōphrosynē, to which Paul alludes, implies reasonableness, moderation, good judgment, self-control.
* [5:14–15] These verses echo 2 Cor 4:14 and resume the treatment of "life despite death" from 2 Cor 4:7–5:10.
* [5:16–17] Consequently: the death of Christ described in 2 Cor 5:14–15 produces a whole new order (2 Cor 5:17) and a new mode of perception (2 Cor 5:16). According to the flesh: the natural mode of perception, characterized as "fleshly," is replaced by a mode of perception proper to the Spirit. Elsewhere Paul contrasts what Christ looks like according to the old criteria (weakness, powerlessness, folly, death) and according to the new (wisdom, power, life); cf. 2 Cor 5:15, 21; 1 Cor 1:17–3:3. Similarly, he describes the paradoxical nature of Christian existence, e.g., in 2 Cor 4:10–11, 14. A new creation: rabbis used this expression to describe the effect of the entrance of a proselyte or convert into Judaism or of the remission of sins on the Day of Atonement. The new order created in Christ is the new covenant (2 Cor 3:6).
* [5:18–21] Paul attempts to explain the meaning of God's action by a variety of different categories; his attention keeps moving rapidly back and forth from God's act to his own ministry as well. Who has reconciled us to himself: i.e., he has brought all into oneness. Not counting their trespasses: the reconciliation is described as an act of justification (cf. "righteousness," 2 Cor 5:21); this contrasts with the covenant that condemned (2 Cor 3:8). The ministry of reconciliation: Paul's role in the wider picture is described: entrusted with the message of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:19), he is Christ's ambassador, through whom God appeals (2 Cor 5:20a). In v. 20b Paul acts in the capacity just described.
* [5:21] This is a statement of God's purpose, expressed paradoxically in terms of sharing and exchange of attributes. As Christ became our righteousness (1 Cor 1:30), we become God's righteousness (cf. 2 Cor 5:14–15).
a. [5:1] Is 38:12 / Col 3:1–4 / Mk 14:58; Col 2:11; Heb 9:11, 24.
b. [5:2] Rom 8:23 / 1 Cor 15:51–54.
c. [5:4] Is 25:8; 1 Cor 15:54.
f. [5:10] Mt 16:27; 25:31–46; Rom 2:16; 14:10–11.
h. [5:12] 3:1 / 1:14; Phil 1:26.
j. [5:15] Rom 4:25; 6:4–11; 14:9; Col 3:3–4.
k. [5:17] Gal 6:15; Eph 2:15 / Is 43:18–21; Rev 21:5.
l. [5:19] Rom 5:10–11; Col 1:20.
n. [5:21] Is 53:6–9; Gal 3:13 / Rom 3:24–26; 1 Cor 1:30; 1 Pt 2:24; 1 Jn 3:5–8.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Moravian Spice Cookies
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Our Christmas celebration begins the day after Thanksgiving with the making of at least one dessert or treat to be served during the Christmas holidays. That first dessert is usually a cake that requires aging, but we've also been known to make cookies that fall into a category we call "keepers". A "keeper" in our parlance is a treat that will not stale before the official holiday begins. Moravian Spice Cookies fall into that category. When I was a child we called these glass cookies, not because of their appearance, but because they were so thin they'd shatter if you dropped them on the floor. They were brought to the United States by members of the Moravian church who settled in colonial American communities established by church elders in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The highly spiced cookies are flavored with molasses and are arguably the world's thinnest cookie. When properly rolled, a one inch stack will contain 16 cookies. I still haven't mastered that challenge, though I continue to try. Over the years, I've made some changes to the original recipe to accommodate the tastes of family and friends. Not everyone appreciates the bold taste of full-flavored molasses and dark brown sugar, so, while the dark versions are more authentic, I prefer to use light molasses and brown sugar. The cookies are simple to make and they are wonderful keepers. Be forewarned that the dough must be refrigerated before it can be rolled, so you'll have to plan your time accordingly. Here's the recipe.
Moravian Spice Cookies...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
1-1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Pinch of cayenne pepper
3 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons light or dark brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup molasses, light or dark
1) Whisk flour, salt, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and cayenne pepper together in a small bowl. Set aside.
2) Using an electric mixer, cream butter in a small bowl. Add sugar and molasses and mix until combined.
3) Slowly add flour mixture and beat just until smooth.
4) Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 5 hours. Dough will keep several days if refrigerated.
5) Move a rack to upper third of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with foil. Set aside.
6) Divide dough into 4 parts. Work with 1/4 of dough at a time, keeping the rest refrigerated. Roll dough on a well-floured surface until it is paper thin - 1/16th of an inch thick. Work quickly because dough will become sticky and unworkable if out too long. Cut with a 2-3/4-inch round cookie cutter. Transfer cookies to prepared cookie sheet.
7) Bake until cookies darken slightly, about 8 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining portions of dough. Scraps can be reserved and rerolled following refrigeration. Store cooled cookies in an airtight container. Yield: 48 cookies.
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37 comments :
- Martha said...
I've never gotten the nerve to make these cookies -- don't think I can give them that thing!
- December 19, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Another fantastic recipe that I can't wait to try. Excellent!
Thank you Mary!
ButterYum - December 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
I have tried these cookies before--so good with tea but have not tried making them. I love how thin ad crisp they are.
- December 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM
- pigpigscorner said...
I've never had this before. Love how thin it is and the spiciness.
- December 19, 2009 at 5:53 AM
- My Little Space said...
Mary, that is a gorgeous photo! And the recipe sounds wonderful as well. Thanks!
- December 19, 2009 at 5:58 AM
- KathyB. said...
I am not sure I am up to the challenge of such a cookie, and yet it does sound worth the effort.
My 'Wee Little Sheep' are created by me from an article I read in the 70's about these little sheep created for Moravian creches, and for a variety of reasons my husband and I have done a bit of research into Moravian history....very interesting.The Moravians had a big , but little known , impact on our history. - December 19, 2009 at 6:42 AM
- Penny said...
Mary, When we lived in Greensboro we used to go Old Salem where the Moravians had there village. They still make the Moravian cookies in the old wood fired ovens and the smell of molasses and spices is heady on a cool winter day.
- December 19, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- George Gaston said...
Mary, this is a marvelous cookie filled with incredible spices and flavor. I usually have to make several batches due to breakage & eating them while they are still warm. Many thanks for reminding me about this old favorite.
- December 19, 2009 at 7:45 AM
- Katy ~ said...
A spice cookie wins my heart every time. These are just lovely!
- December 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Cathy said...
This is my mother's favorite cookie and I haven't made it yet. Now I know what I'll be doing today. Thanks for this recipe, Mary.
- December 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
I have had these cookies before in NC, and they are FABULOUS. The remind me of the benne cookies in Charleston in terms of their texture and thinness. Your recipe sounds perfect, Mary. Thank you for sharing this. Now, I am craving this for breakfast! LOL!
Happy Pink Saturday!
Sheila :-) - December 19, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...
I've never made these cookies but you've given me courage to give them a try.
Hope you have a happy holiday and a wonderful Pink Saturday.
Sam - December 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Lynne (lynnesgiftsfromtheheart) said...
Another great recipe... anxious to try to this one..hugs ~lynne~
- December 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Unknown said...
I have never made these AWESOME!!! cookies before. I love the combination of spices. THANKS!!! for the GREAT!!! recipe.
Geri - December 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Foley said...
Love molasses cookies..these sound really good!
One of these days you will have to take a photo of your recipe file..it must be bulging!! - December 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- SnoWhite said...
my mom used to make these :)
- December 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Karen said...
A woman in our church used to make these at Christmastime. They're wonderful!
- December 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Glennis said...
Oh, I bet these are lovely! My mother used to make a dark spice cookie, and then she lost the recipe. I've been trying out recipes ever since to find one that came close.
Happy Pink Saturday! - December 19, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- storyteller said...
What a lovely tradition! When she's in town, my sister and I make tamales to give to our friends at Christmas time ;-)
My Pink Saturday is at Happily Retired Gal
Hugs and blessings, - December 19, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Regina said...
Perfect! Thanks for sharing.
Enjoy the holiday season. - December 19, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
wow... I am loving this... I don't think this sounds very Christmassy to me, BUT,,, I think this combination would compliment a rib BBQ dinner as dessert wonderfully. The molasses is a key ingredient in my beans, and the pepper ... well, the pepper is key in my rib rub...
People are always too full to really enjoy a dessert, but a wafer thin little treat passed around would be gobbled up
this is a keeper - December 19, 2009 at 5:16 PM
- Debbie said...
I've heard of these and they sound delicious. I love trying all different kinds of cookies....yours look so pretty!
- December 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- La Table De Nana said...
Mary they look wonderful..I just saw your newest adorable cookie:) Congratulations!
- December 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Jhonny walker said...
allspice, ginger...I am making this now :)
- December 19, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Char said...
This makes me want to run and grab a cup of tea, they look so good, Happy Pink Saturday Mary and thanks again for a perfect recipe, Char
- December 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM
- Donna-FFW said...
Oh they look so pretty. Kind of cookie you share with a girlfriend over hot coffee and tell secrets.
- December 19, 2009 at 10:05 PM
- Barbara Jean said...
Just coming by to say hi on Pink Saturday!!
Christmas Blessings
barbara jean - December 20, 2009 at 1:05 AM
these sound lovely never would have thought cookies could keep so well have a fab christmas loads of love Val
- December 20, 2009 at 2:59 AM
- Claudia said...
These are gorgeously thin and crispy. I love these spices - I want them. These are perfect holiday cookies.
- December 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
- Beverly said...
Happy Pink Saturday and Happy Holidays to you and your family, Mary.
I love these cookies. We have been to Old Salem in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and the some yummy scents come from the bakery. - December 21, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I can't believe you actually have this recipe. I am going to have to try this for my husband.
- December 21, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- Susie Jefferson said...
Sorry I'm so late visiting you - I'm in for another eye op in January, so I'm having to keep computer stuff to minimum time and small doses, unfortunately.
Lovely, mouthwatering post as always!
I've got a family sherry trifle recipe on mine, if you'd like to add it to your collection.
Belated Happy Pink Saturday! And Happy Christmas (I won't be participating in the upcoming, Boxing Day one). - December 22, 2009 at 6:46 AM
- Gary near NYC said...
Thanks for making this recipe publicly available!
I hadn't heard of Moravian cookies until I stumbled across a small 3.5oz can of them by the Salem Baking Co., on sale at TJMaxx. The small container intrigued me, because the nutritional label said 12 cookies per serving, and that there were about 3.5 servings inside. How could over 40 cookies fit into this small container? Well indeed, they are about 1/16" thick!
I can't see making them that thin, but even at 1/8" that's still a reasonably thin cookie. The Salem Baking Company cookies are incredibly good, and I imagine these will either come close or match that. :-) - March 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
G, I hope you'll like these. They are a favorite of mine.
- March 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM
I made these last weekend and we love them. You quickly get the hang of rolling them. A couple of tips: 1) don't be afraid to use flour so they don't stick, but brush the extra flour off with a pastry brush before you bake them, 2) a bench scraper works awesomely to get the cookies off the counter after you've rolled them out. I was able to roll them until they were almost see-through and then scrape them up with the bench scraper and put them on the cookie sheet. They aren't so fragile to handle; they are more fragile to roll as they stick to the rolling pin and the dough tears if you roll too fast. Try them - you will love them too!
- December 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- G.Schmackvoll said...
I love cookies .. Need to post something too. I have a few recipes you may like too : http://www.weisse-schokolade.com
PS:I foolow you :) - April 2, 2012 at 10:48 AM
These sound like Lebkuchen (German) or Piernik (Polish) will have to try them out.
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