Apple jack around here is simply hard cider, or scrumpy with no further efforts at increasing the alcoholic level. You can buy hard cider at any package store, or many markets who carry alcoholic drinks. I guess apple brandy is sometimes called Apple Jack too, saw that when I googled it, but that's a new one on me. It doesn't make any difference how you raise the proof in the end run, it accomplishes the same thing and if I were going to look for the closest equivalent it would be apple brandy.

Nita, Harry will love your beef and broccoli. One question, though. In the instructions it says to add the broccoli and water. How much water? GARLIC CHEDDAR BISCUITS 2 cups unbleached all purpose flour 2 oz sharp cheddar cheese, shredded 2 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon table salt 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup whole milk 1/4 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded (for topping) for the garlic butter topping: 4 tablespoons butter 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley garlic salt, to taste 1) Adjust oven rack upper-middle position and heat oven to 425 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or grease for easy removal of biscuits. 2) Whisk together flour, cheddar cheese, sugar, baking powder, salt, and garlic in a medium bowl. Add milk and stir until ingredients are mixed, be careful not to over mix. At this point the dough should be fairly sticky but not runny or dry. Add more flour or milk as needed to achieve desired consistency. 3) Scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet with a large cookie scoop (about 3 tablespoons worth of dough). Top each biscuit with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese. Bake for 15 minutes or until the tops of the biscuits begin to brown. 4) In a small bowl, melt the butter along with the garlic and parsley in the microwave. Brush tops with garlic butter mixture and sprinkle with garlic salt to taste. Makes 12.

LOL! In my bird book with the falling-out-pages I have LOTS of post-it notes stuck on the pages with the birds I "for sure" saw, and the date when I saw them--and where, if it was somewhere besides home in Denver! A few post-its with question marks too, when I wasn't positive! Now my "new" Nat. Geo. book is starting to get post-it notes stuck in IT! I could NEVER deal with a book that had the pics in one part and the words somewhere else! Wouldn't possibly have the patience for that! It's hard enough to try to ID a bird when I'm sitting here going, "Don't fly away! Don't fly away!" and trying desperately to manipulate my binoculars and keep my fingers in several different pages of a book--or books! I way agree with the "plain old google search," but ANYTHING can come up in a search, so you need to be really careful that you're looking at the "consensus" and not just picking out a pic that looks like you "want it to look!" Not too long ago I got curious about something and I wound up googling "white people," "black people," "red people," and "yellow people," and several more similar terms, and it was pretty "illuminating" how that all came out! Pretty funny, actually, but pretty sad at the same time! So any internet search definitely needs to be taken With a Grain of Salt! The All About Birds site is REALLY good for identifying them! On the "Identification" tab, on the bottom, there are always several actual photos, plus, just right of that there's "similar species" info--that can be REALLY helpful! And then on the "life history" tab there's info about what they eat, their habitat, and more! Really useful if you see a bird eating seeds and find out what you think it is only eats insects! For anyone who still hasn't gone to that site, here's one page. I saw these last spring at the cabin where I stay on Grand Mesa. Don't have internet there, so ID'd it in a book first, and then looked it up here when I got back home! There are some elms next to the house that were just starting to leaf out--and they were FILLED with these! VERY cool! https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Tanager/id Skybird

Applejack is a nice rose here. It does the best by far of any of the Buck varieties we've grown. It is a small climber/large shrub along the lines of the Explorer climbers. It supposedly has inherited scented leaves, but it isn't easy to pick up any scents. Health is good, and it hasn't had any hardiness issues here. It is in the back of the yard in a fair amount of shade, but seems to be holding its own against the hickories. I tried to order Aicha from Ashdown, but it never showed up. This seems to be a recurring theme among own-root roses that try to sell spinossissimas. Almost all the ones I've managed to get were either grafted plants or passalong suckers.