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Default Recipe: Mamie Eisenhowers Million Dollar Fudge (Another "heirloom recipe")

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:00:38 -0700, Gloria P wrote:

> Gregory Morrow wrote:
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>> Mamie was a big drunk, donchyaknow...

>
> So was Betty Ford, and Dubya, in his day. And Ike was unfaithful.
> I think if I'd been married to the womanizing, War Hero Ike,
> I might have tipped a few also.
>
> What does that have to do with a fudge recipe?
>
> gloria p


the charge that mamie was a drunk is bogus anyway. she had some kind of
inner ear condition that sometimes made her unsteady on her feet:

<http://books.google.com/books?id=lbLi0krb7yUC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=mamie+ eisenhower+drunk&source=bl&ots=7nko8PPtrk&sig=63hW Ch8GmN8StQyQTWpsXQYRiiQ&hl=en&ei=O3KlSbiZGY-ctwfS0KTZBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result >

your pal,
blake