"Bob Travis" > wrote in message
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> Please let me know if this is not the right newsgroup for this question.
>
> My mother-in-law says that due to the high sugar content an apple crisp
> dessert does not need to be refrigerated for the first day after cooking.
> She says that if she made it just after breakfast and serves it just after
> supper it will be safe to eat that evening and it needn't be refrigerated
> until after it is served after supper.

STOP RIGHT THERE! You're in the wrong newsgroup, so far.

Try he alt.broom.for.mummy

>
> I said any cooked food will start harboring bacteria just as soon as it
> begins to cool, so she should have refrigerated it shortly after breakfast
> and after supper she should only have warmed up what she anticipated we
> would eat and kept the rest refrigerated.

nope. try rec.don.quixote

>
> Well she got all huffy and picked up her apple crisp and went home. My
> thinking was, "Good riddens," but my wife asked me if I was absolutely
sure
> that it needed to be refrigerated and if there was any truth to her mom's
> comment about the apple crisp's high sugar content making it so no
> refrigeration is necessary the first day after cooking?

ouch. maybe alt.picnic.food.left.out.nobody.died

>
> I said, "No, I'm not sure and maybe she really knows what she was talking
> about." My wife then said, "Well, you better find out because if you are
> wrong and she is right then you owe mom an apology." I said, "Okay, I'll
get
> on the web and find out."

wow! rec.research.then.grovel

>
> I looked and looked and the best I could find was that apple crisp keeps
for
> three days WITH refrigeration. I could not find anything which specified
how
> long it could go without refrigeration on the day it was prepared.

hmmm....a curve ball. ok, how bout alt.eat.it.and.see

>
> I am hoping someone here knows or can tell me where to look. I want to
know
> if who was right and who was wrong.
>
> Thanks for a clue.
>

nah, that's alt.clues.r.us

What's in apple crisp? apples, brown sugar, oatmeal, maybe a little butter?
It could have sat out on the counter until dinner without major penalty.
You can leave a loaf of bread out, no? or in a breadbox?

Sorry, Bob, put on the collar and beg. Find out how at
alt.binaries.pictures.mothers.in.law

Jack Outlaws