Cream

Dough differs from batter in as much as it is stiff enough to be handled.

Cream scones, two cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder, two teaspoons sugar, one half teaspoon salt, four tablespoons butter, two eggs, one third cup cream.

Mix and sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.

Rub in butter with tips of fingers.

Twin mountain muffins.

One quarter cup butter, one quarter cup sugar, one egg, three quarter cup milk, two cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder.

Cream the butter, add sugar and egg well beaten, sift baking powder with flour, and add to the first mixture, alternating with milk.

Bake in buttered tin gem pans twenty-five minutes.

All those things that you just described, that full creaminess, the weight, the lack of sharpness, All of that can come even though you pick up flavor profiles of earth or coffee or black pepper while still having this really great creamy textured cigar smoke.

Yeah, that's absolutely true.

Creamy doesn't require a dairy-like flavor.

That distinction is really going to guide the entire episode.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's the focus because here's the really simple version of what we're trying to come across with tonight.

Cream is something the cigar may remind you of.

Creamy is something the smoke may feel like.

You're amazing.

Oh, my God, I thought you couldn't get any smarter than your Julie's Chicken and Cream, but look at me.

I was wrong.

I was wrong about you, Julie Bishop.

And the rest is history.

But there's a rival claim from Fenton's Creamery, also in Oakland, who says their candy maker, George Farren, blended a rocky road candy bar into ice cream first.

And a candy cookbook from Kansas published in 1920 contains a Rocky Road recipe that predates both of them.

Whoever invented it, Rocky Road did something nobody had done before.

So he told two dairy science students, Joe Leadham and Joe Bantryk, to go buy every box of Oreos they could find.

They crushed them up and mixed them into vanilla ice cream.

Seas wanted to call it Oreo ice cream, but a lawyer told him that would get them sued, so they named it Cookies and Cream instead.

But South Dakota State University never filed a patent.