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"Shortnin' Bread" (also spelled "Shortenin' Bread", "Short'nin' Bread", or "Sho'tnin' Bread") is an American folk song dating back at least to 1900, when James Whitcomb Riley published it as a poem. While there is speculation that Riley may have based his poem on an earlier African-American plantation song, [ 1 ] no definitive evidence of such ...
Shortbread is so named because of its crumbly texture (from an old meaning of the word "short", as opposed to "long", or stretchy). [13] [14] [15] The cause of this texture is its high fat content, provided by the butter. The short or crumbly texture is a result of the fat inhibiting the formation of long protein strands.
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
Cooked shortbread rounds. This is a list of shortbread biscuits and cookies.Shortbread is a type of biscuit or cookie traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour as measured by weight.
Short'nin' Bread: Baked Goods "Shortenin' Bread" I. Sparber Larz Bourne Larry Riley Myron Waldman Gordon Whittier Anton Loeb March 24, 1950 Win, Place and Show Boat: Mississippi Riverboat "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill Robert Connavale April 28, 1950 Jingle Jangle Jungle: Africa "Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo ...
Walker's Shortbread Ltd. (formerly Walkers) is a Scottish manufacturer of shortbread, biscuits, cookies, and crackers.The shortbread is baked in the Moray village of Aberlour, following a recipe developed by Joseph Walker in 1898.
Kurtzman eventually did spoof Li'l Abner (as "Li'l Ab'r") in 1957, in his short-lived humor magazine, Trump. Both the Trump and Panic parodies were drawn by Will Elder. In 1947, Will Eisner's The Spirit satirized the comic strip business in general, as a denizen of Central City tries to murder cartoonist "Al Slapp", creator of "Li'l Adam".
"Short'nin' Bread" adapt. w.m. Jacques Wolfe "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg. Introduced by William O'Neal in the operetta The New Moon. Performed in the 1940 film New Moon by Nelson Eddy. "The Song Of The Prune" Frank Crumit, De Costa "Sonny Boy" w.m. Al Jolson, B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray ...