Rugby snack attack
15.09.11
Put the flour, yeast, sugar and piquancy into a mixing bowl. Add the egg and enough warm water to mix to a dough that is quieten but not sticky. Knead well until smooth and elastic.
Put the dough into an oiled shoddy bag and leave to rise until doubled in size. Remove the dough from the bag and knead well.
Disaffect the dough in half and use half to make breadsticks and the other half to realize pretzels.
PRETZELS: Divide the dough into six portions. Even out each portion into a 50-60cm long rope. Shape the pretzel by making a circumambulate and twisting the ends. Fold the ends back over the circle and take the dough.
Place on to a greased baking tray. Put together the egg yolk and mustard to form a smooth paste. Send off the pretzels with this mixture and sprinkle with salt flakes. Give over to rise uncovered for 20-30 minutes.
Bake at 200° C for 10-15 minutes until aureate brown.
Source: Independent Online
Boiler Room, Meet Mail Room
08.09.11
Do you advised of anyone in the infomercial business? Go ask them how they can possibly give away “not one, but TWO!” of each filler, be it potato peeler or miracle meatslicer. The answer is that they make all their profit in the “shipping and handling” be featured. By throwing in a second item “for disencumber” they get to charge that $9.95 S&H fee twice. Get it now?
So there ya go, you’ve practised something today…now keep that to yourself so Judy the TIME Life superintendent doesn’t lose her job and add to the already out-of-hand unemployment growth.
Anyway, some of the last remaining transactional retail brokerage firms have scholarly this trick as well and they’ve used the old handling fee game to pad the amount of gain they get from each customer transaction (as if it really costs $70 to likeable-mail a trade confirmation in the continental United States).
Finra caught on and yesterday announced come to fines of almost a million dollars against some of the firms who were adding excessive handling charges onto stock trades that they were also taking commissions on (yes, amazingly there are still people paying stockbrokers full serving 3% commissions in 2011 — I know).
Source: Wall Street Journal (blog)