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Pickled limes recipe for saint Patrick's day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day 🍀

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The Taste of Lime

Let Winged Fancy Wander

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"The Taste of Lime" is a Little Women AU where Meg has already encountered John Brooke at the first party where Jo meets Laurie. After Amy loses her pickled limes and Meg gives her the rag money, she meets John Brooke while she's in the Laurence conservatory and explains she had to give up her plan of refurbishing her bonnet since she didn't have the means to pay for new ribbons after giving Amy the money. John praises her for being so considerate and manages to give her a compliment that makes her blush. A small package is left for Miss March the next day, without a card or return address. Within it is a length of bright green silk ribbon.

Snippet: "I'm used to making-do and Amy isn't," Meg said, finding herself confiding in the serious, dark-haired man who listened so patiently. "Though I must admit, I don't care to look shabby and my bonnet's a disgrace."

"Let Winged Fancy Wander" features Eloise Bridgerton, inspired by Lady Whistledown, trying her hand at a three-volume novel, complete with Gothic extravagances that she can't bring herself to continue because they seem too silly. Various members of the Bridgerton clan weigh in on drafts and passages, but Kate gives the best commentary, such that Eloise gives up on the book and Kate takes it over, writing a version of her own story, complete with her romance with Anthony. He does not feel they are adequately disguised and is not amused.

Project pickled limes: where we started vs. where we're at

I fully anticipate these will be awful, but I will say the salted limes, pre pickling juice, had a very pleasant, almost minty scent coming off them, so maybe they won't be bad?? Or maybe that just means that salted limes ought to be smelled and not eaten. TIME WILL TELL!

If you're curious, these are being made loosely following this recipe. I replaced the horseradish with slices of fresh ginger, and I went with my instinct and used apple cider vinegar, since I thought it might be more prevalent in the period than distilled white. I'm kind of hoping these will somehow be spicy, tart, and sweet, but I think I'm just deluding myself. Pretty sure they're going to taste like crap non-dill pickles at best and at worst... straight up garbage.

Little Women Pickled Limes Recipe

Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’, which was written in 1868 remains a classic today. One reason for that, we think, is that girls reading the books can identify with the four main characters.

One part of the novel which sticks with us is Amy’s horror when her teacher forces her to throw out her precious pickled limes – “two by two”. It wasn’t just the fact that the teacher made her throw out…

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We believe that the LIWAs are by and for the fans and as such, we’re going to refrain from publishing a list of recommended nominations. If you think we’re deserving of a category and would like to put our name or our actors forward for a nomination that’s really cool and thank you so much for thinking of us! However, the LIW fandom is so small, it feels like the LIWA nomination process would be best conducted without our voice.

Here’s some guidance though, about which categories our actors would fall into:

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Allen - “Meg”

Alex Kerr - “Jo”

Nicole Girt - “Beth”

Cassidy Civiero - “Amy”

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Alejandra Simmons - “Joan”

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Some creative decisions are made to help with production, but Amy’s arc and her relationship with the glasses was decided long before our long saga of forgetting them. So we’d already planned for the season to end with Amy breaking the glasses.But it’s definitely one less thing for our brain to remember moving forward and Cassidy, Amy’s actor, was getting tired of wearing them, so I think by the end of the season it wasn’t just Amy who had outgrown them. We were all happy to see them go!

Although that didn’t stop us from taking selfies with the broken specs: