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Woven wrap Little Frog - Barite -size 4
- Woven wrap Little Frog - Barite -size 4 (3,6 metres)
- • Polish woven wrap for babywearing by Little Frog - since first days
- • 100% cotton
- • broken twill weave
- • woven wrap
Todas las fulares, bandoleras de anillas y tejidos Little Frog están certificados conforme a la NORMA 100 por OEKO -TEX (clase I).
name: Barite
type: woven wrap
size: S (0,7 m x 3,6 m)
country of origin: Poland
colours: gray, graphite
weft: gray
weight: 190-210 g/m2
weft thread: broken twill weave
composition: 100% cotton
quality certificates: wraps are produced in accordance with EU norm EN 13209-2 and Eco-Tex Standard (learn more about this certificate), strength and quality of Little Frog baby wraps was tested by a certified laboratory in accordance with norm PN-EN ISO 13934-1:2002
accesories: instruction booklet (English) that shows four ways of tying (kangaroo, double X, backpack, pocket)
note: there is an expected max 5% shrinkage after 1st or 2nd washing (which is part of the natural process) - that's why our wraps are made 5% longer (e.g. wrap in size 4.6m is originally 4.85m)
Little Frog are Polish baby wraps made of 100% soft cotton. They are especially created for the youngest babies -they are thinner and more delicate. We recommend them particularly if you haven't got much experience with babywearing .
If you are looking for an individual size - please contact us. We can make customized wrap.


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Hello Treeleaf Sangha
My name is Greg. I'm 27, single and live in Vermont. I work in health-care, and keep myself busy with a variety of activities including music (guitar & fiddle), yoga, fencing, golf, blogging and reading.
I've been studying Buddhism for the last two years. Last year I took the plunge and decided to become a Buddhist. Most of my work has been on my own. I have not been able to squeeze a Sangha into my work schedule. The options in my immediate area are a little limited. Fortunately I have found a home here at Treeleaf and am very happy to be practicing with all of you.
Up to this point I have not approached Buddhism from a purely Zen approach, but have found a great deal of value in it. In fact Zazen has been the meditative approach that has been the best fit for me. However, from a theological approach I have taken a lot of inspiration from Theravada Buddhism. The Pali Cannon has been a rich source for me in understanding the Dharma, and applying a Buddhist approach to my life.
Beginning in January of this year I began a blog to assist me in journaling my thoughts and applying the Eightfold Path to my life. . .In case any one is interested in seeing more about my path, or discussing yours please drop in and see me at http://enteringthepath.wordpress.com ---- I'm not trying to plug anything, only offering to share the experience, the internet has been a useful tool for me in overcoming the lack of a brick and mortar Sangha in my life.
I'm looking forward to practicing Zazen daily here and learning from everybody involved.
May You be Happy,


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Police were called to Ysgol Mair school in Rhyl yesterday after reports that a fight was happening. It happened near the nursery entrance with some children arriving for school for the first time and others returning after their six week Summer holiday.
Parents used social media to express their anger at the behaviour of the two women and their shock at the bad language being used in front of the children arriving at school.
A statement from Denbighshire Council said: "We were aware of an altercation between two women on the school grounds this morning and our understanding is that the matter was not connected in any way to the school.
However, the council does not tolerate any unacceptable anti-social behaviour on any of its school grounds. The matter is now in the hands of the police."
A similar story appeared in Wales Online here
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By: Associated Press//January 22, 2013//
By AMY FORLITI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Three members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people from the Twin Cities to reservations in greater Minnesota, Wisconsin and beyond will go on trial Tuesday in what authorities call one of the largest gang cases to come out of Indian Country.
Wakinyon Wakan McArthur, 34, – an alleged leader of the Native Mob – and two alleged Native Mob "soldiers," Anthony Francis Cree, 26, and William Earl Morris, 25, are accused of being part of a criminal enterprise that used intimidation and violence to keep the gang in power. They face multiple charges, including conspiracy to participate in racketeering and attempted murder in the aid of racketeering.
Prosecutors said the case is important partly because of its size – 25 people were charged in a 57-count indictment – and because the racketeering charge is a tool rarely used against gangs, indicating this is an attempt to take down the entire enterprise.
"This is a major case on many levels," U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Jeanne Cooney said. "It's one of the largest, if not the largest case dealing with Native American gangs."
The 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment says the Native Mob is one of the largest and most violent American Indian gangs in the U.S., and is most active in Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as Michigan, North Dakota and South Dakota. It is made up of mostly American Indian men and boys, and started in Minneapolis in the 1990s as members fought for turf to deal drugs. The Native Mob is also active in prison.
Tom Heffelfinger, a former U.S. attorney in Minnesota who has worked to curb crime in Indian Country, said racketeering charges were appropriate in this case. While the statutes outlawing racketeering – when multiple people commit crimes together in order to benefit a criminal enterprise – were created to go after groups like the Mafia, Heffelfinger said the statute is well-suited to go after any organized criminal activity.
But Frederick Goetz, McArthur's attorney, said this case doesn't fit the bill.
"There is, and there was, no racketeering enterprise," Goetz said. "The interesting part of the case will be sorting the myth from the reality."
Goetz said many of the allegations aren't part of a conspiracy, but are sporadic, individual acts carried out by disaffected, alienated youths who have dealt with tough circumstances on reservations.
The Native Mob has about 200 members, according to the indictment, and is recruiting new ones. Heffelfinger said some recruitment happens at powwows, as recruiters use Native American culture and the "warrior mentality" to attract children.
The indictment paints a picture of a structured group that held monthly meetings where members were encouraged to assault or murder enemies, or anyone who showed disrespect.
Authorities say McArthur was a leader or "chief" of the Native Mob, and directed other members to carry out beatings, shootings and the armed home invasion of a rival drug dealer. The indictment said that in 2010, he ordered fellow gang members to shoot at a rival's house to keep him from dealing on Native Mob turf, authorized the assault of a prison inmate in 2008 and recruited new members from prison.
He also, according to the indictment, wrote a letter from prison to a fellow Native Mob member in 2004, describing a plan to hold people accountable, and saying "Discipline and promote fear is the quickest way to progress our case."
The indictment also said that in 2010, Morris and Cree tried to kill a man by shooting him multiple times while he held his 5-year-old daughter. The indictment said it was done at McArthur's behest, and in retaliation because the man was cooperating with authorities.
Goetz had no comment on specifics in the indictment, but said the Native Mob is about keeping people safe.
"Are we saying this is the Boys and Girls Club? No. But I think the actual purpose of this is to decrease the violence rather than increase the violence," Goetz said.
Christopher Grant, a national Native American gang specialist in South Dakota, said there are hundreds of American Indian gangs nationwide. Most, he said, are loosely organized and might have as few as five members.
"I consider Native Mob to be the most organized, violent and predatory street gang structure in Indian Country," Grant said. "There are many other Native American gangs … but Native Mob stands out in terms of their victimization of Native American people in both tribal and non-tribal communities."
Though racketeering cases against Native American gangs are rare, they are not unprecedented.
In Arizona, three members of the East Side Bloods in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community are awaiting trial on racketeering crimes. And in 1997, five members of the East Side Crips Rolling 30s, also in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community, were convicted on racketeering charges.
The Native Mob trial starts Tuesday with jury selection and is expected to take several weeks as prosecutors plan to call about 300 witnesses – including current and former Native Mob members, crime victims and members of rival gangs. Evidence could include recordings collected by undercover informants and prison calls, according to court documents.
Follow Amy Forliti on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/amyforliti


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To configure event base to use, or avoid specific backend EventConfig class can be used.
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Oklahoma's health department is contacting some 7,000 patients of Tulsa-area dentist Dr. W. Scott Harrington to warn them they may have been exposed to "blood-borne viruses."
Officials are urging former patients to get screened for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV after an investigation of Harrington's office found rusty instruments in use and evidence of unsanitary practices. The dentist had clinics in Tulsa and Owasso.
As The Associated Press reports, "health officials opened their investigation after a patient with no known risk factors tested positive for both hepatitis C and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS." But it's far from clear that anyone was ever sickened because they were treated by Harrington. Oklahoma state health department epidemiologist Kristy Bradley told The AP there's still an active investigation. "I want to stress that this is not an outbreak," she said.
Still, health inspectors aren't leaving anything to chance. They've set up free clinics to test for HIV and hepatitis in Tulsa, and they're urging patients to come in. They've mailed letters to everyone treated over the past seven years, which is as far as the records go back. People treated before 2007 won't get a letter, but they're asked to come in anyway. They've also set up a hotline for people to call with questions.
Susan Rogers, executive director of Oklahoma's Board of Dentistry told CNN that when investigators first learned how the dentist's office was run, "we were just physically kind of sick. I mean, that's how bad [it was] and I've seen a lot of bad stuff over the years."
The Oklahoma dentistry board says Harrington is cooperating with the investigation, and has voluntarily closed his two clinics. Rogers tells KOTV-TV that while it's not uncommon for dentists to be cited for violations, this case is "very, very unusual."
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Greatest all-round musical figure of the 20th century, who achieved monumental status as a composer, bandleader, arranger, and instrumentalist. On February 24, 2009, the United States Mint launched a new coin featuring composer, pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington.
Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, many of whom remained with him for long periods. Ellington also wrote film scores and stage musicals, and several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. In addition to touring year in and year out, he recorded extensively, resulting in a gigantic body of work that was still being assessed a quarter century after his death. Ellington was the son of a White House butler, James Edward Ellington, and thus grew up in comfortable surroundings. He began piano lessons at age seven and was writing music by his teens. He dropped out of high school in his junior year in 1917 to pursue a career in music. At first, he booked and performed in bands in the Washington, D.C., area, but in September 1923 the Washingtonians, a five-piece group of which he was a member, moved permanently to New York, where they gained a residency in the Times Square venue The Hollywood Club (later The Kentucky Club). They made their first recordings in November 1924, and cut tunes for different record companies under a variety of pseudonyms, so that several current major labels, notably Sony, Universal, and BMG, now have extensive holdings of their work from the period in their archives, which are reissued periodically. The group gradually increased in size and came under Ellington's leadership. They played in what was called "jungle" style, their sly arrangements often highlighted by the muted growling sound of trumpeter James "Bubber" Miley. A good example of this is Ellington's first signature song, "East St. Louis Toodle-oo," which the band first recorded for Vocalion Records in November 1926, and which became their first chart single in a re-recorded version for Columbia in July 1927. The Ellington band moved uptown to The Cotton Club in Harlem on December 4, 1927. Their residency at the famed club, which lasted more than three years, made Ellington a nationally known musician due to radio broadcasts that emanated from the bandstand. In 1928, he had two two-sided hits: "Black and Tan Fantasy"/"Creole Love Call" on Victor (now BMG) and "Doin' the New Low Down"/"Diga Diga Doo" on OKeh (now Sony), released as by the Harlem Footwarmers. "The Mooche" on OKeh peaked in the charts at the start of 1929. While maintaining his job at The Cotton Club, Ellington took his band downtown to play in the Broadway musical Show Girl, featuring the music of George Gershwin, in the summer of 1929. The following summer, the band took a leave of absence to head out to California and appear in the film Check and Double Check. From the score, "Three Little Words," with vocals by the Rhythm Boys featuring Bing Crosby, became a number one hit on Victor in November 1930; its flip side, "Ring Dem Bells," also reached the charts. The Ellington band left The Cotton Club in February 1931 to begin a tour that, in a sense, would not end until the leader's death 43 years later. At the same time, Ellington scored a Top Five hit with an instrumental version of one of his standards, "Mood Indigo" released on Victor. The recording was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. As "the Jungle Band," the Ellington Orchestra charted on Brunswick later in 1931 with "Rockin' in Rhythm" and with the lengthy composition "Creole Rhapsody," pressed on both sides of a 78 single, an indication that Ellington's goals as a writer were beginning to extend beyond brief works. (A second version of the piece was a chart entry on Victor in March 1932.) "Limehouse Blues" was a chart entry on Victor in August 1931, then in the winter of 1932, Ellington scored a Top Ten hit on Brunswick with one of his best-remembered songs, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," featuring the vocals of Ivie Anderson. This was still more than three years before the official birth of the swing era, and Ellington helped give the period its name. Ellington's next major hit was another signature song for him, "Sophisticated Lady." His instrumental version became a Top Five hit in the spring of 1933, with its flip side, a treatment of "Stormy Weather," also making the Top Five. The Ellington Orchestra made another feature film, Murder at the Vanities, in the spring of 1934. Their instrumental rendition of "Cocktails for Two" from the score hit number one on Victor in May, and they hit the Top Five with both sides of the Brunswick release "Moon Glow"/"Solitude" that fall. The band also appeared in the Mae West film Belle of the Nineties and played on the soundtrack of Many Happy Returns. Later in the fall, the band was back in the Top Ten with "Saddest Tale," and they had two Top Ten hits in 1935, "Merry-Go-Round" and "Accent on Youth." While the latter was scoring in the hit parade in September, Ellington recorded another of his extended compositions, "Reminiscing in Tempo," which took up both sides of two 78s. Even as he became more ambitious, however, he was rarely out of the hit parade, scoring another Top Ten hit, "Cotton," in the fall of 1935, and two more, "Love Is Like a Cigarette" and "Oh Babe! Maybe Someday," in 1936. The band returned to Hollywood in 1936 and recorded music for the Marx Brothers' film A Day at the Races and for Hit Parade of 1937. Meanwhile, they were scoring Top Ten hits with "Scattin' at the Kit-Kat" and the swing standard "Caravan," co-written by valve trombonist Juan Tizol, and Ellington was continuing to pen extended instrumental works such as "Diminuendo in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue." "If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)," a vocal number featuring Ivie Anderson, was a Top Ten hit in the spring of 1938, and Ellington scored his third number one hit in April with an instrumental version of another standard, "I Let a Song Go out of My Heart." In the fall, he was back in the Top Ten with a version of the British show tune "Lambeth Walk." The Ellington band underwent several notable changes at the end of the 1930s. After several years recording more or less regularly for Brunswick, Ellington moved to Victor. In early 1939 Billy Strayhorn, a young composer, arranger, and pianist, joined the organization. He did not usually perform with the orchestra, but he became Ellington's composition partner to the extent that soon it was impossible to tell where Ellington's writing left off and Strayhorn's began. Two key personnel changes strengthened the outfit with the acquisition of bassist Jimmy Blanton in September and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster in December. Their impact on Ellington's sound was so profound that their relatively brief tenure has been dubbed "the Blanton-Webster Band" by jazz fans. These various changes were encapsulated by the Victor release of Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train," a swing era standard, in the summer of 1941. The recording was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. That same summer, Ellington was in Los Angeles, where his stage musical, Jump for Joy, opened on July 10 and ran for 101 performances. Unfortunately, the show never went to Broadway, but among its songs was "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)," another standard. The U.S. entry into World War II in December 1941 and the onset of the recording ban called by the American Federation of Musicians in August 1942 slowed the Ellington band's momentum. Unable to record and with touring curtailed, Ellington found an opportunity to return to extended composition with the first of a series of annual recitals at Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1943, at which he premiered "Black, Brown and Beige." And he returned to the movies, appearing in Cabin in the Sky and Reveille with Beverly. Meanwhile, the record labels, stymied for hits, began looking into their artists' back catalogs. Lyricist Bob Russell took Ellington's 1940 composition "Never No Lament" and set a lyric to it, creating "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." The Ink Spots scored with a vocal version (recorded a cappella), and Ellington's three-year-old instrumental recording was also a hit, reaching the pop Top Ten and number one on the recently instituted R&B charts. Russell repeated his magic with another 1940 Ellington instrumental, "Concerto for Cootie" (a showcase for trumpeter Cootie Williams), creating "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me." Nearly four years after it was recorded, the retitled recording hit the pop Top Ten and number one on the R&B charts for Ellington in early 1944, while newly recorded vocal cover versions also scored. Ellington's vintage recordings became ubiquitous on the top of the R&B charts during 1943-1944; he also hit number one with "A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)," "Sentimental Lady," and "Main Stem." With the end of the recording ban in November 1944, Ellington was able to record a song he had composed with his saxophonist, Johnny Hodges, set to a lyric by Don George and Harry James, "I'm Beginning to See the Light." The James recording went to number one in April 1945, but Ellington's recording was also a Top Ten hit. With the end of the war, Ellington's period as a major commercial force on records largely came to an end, but unlike other big bandleaders, who disbanded as the swing era passed, Ellington, who predated the era, simply went on touring, augmenting his diminished road revenues with his songwriting royalties to keep his band afloat. In a musical climate in which jazz was veering away from popular music and toward bebop, and popular music was being dominated by singers, the Ellington band no longer had a place at the top of the business; but it kept working. And Ellington kept trying more extended pieces. In 1946, he teamed with lyricist John Latouche to write the music for the Broadway musical Beggar's Holiday, which opened on December 26 and ran 108 performances. And he wrote his first full-length background score for a feature film with 1950's The Asphalt Jungle. The first half of the 1950s was a difficult period for Ellington, who suffered many personnel defections. (Some of those musicians returned later.) But the band made a major comeback at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956, when they kicked into a version of "Dimuendo and Crescendo in Blue" that found saxophonist Paul Gonsalves taking a long, memorable solo. Ellington appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and he signed a new contract with Columbia Records, which released Ellington at Newport, the best-selling album of his career. Freed of the necessity of writing hits and spurred by the increased time available on the LP record, Ellington concentrated more on extended compositions for the rest of his career. His comeback as a live performer led to increased opportunities to tour, and in the fall of 1958 he undertook his first full-scale tour of Europe. For the rest of his life, he would be a busy world traveler. Ellington appeared in and scored the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder, and its soundtrack won him three of the newly instituted Grammy Awards, for best performance by a dance band, best musical composition of the year, and best soundtrack. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his next score, Paris Blues (1961). In August 1963, his stage work My People, a cavalcade of African-American history, was mounted in Chicago as part of the Century of Negro Progress Exposition. Meanwhile, of course, he continued to lead his band in recordings and live performances. He switched from Columbia to Frank Sinatra's Reprise label (purchased by Warner Bros. Records) and made some pop-oriented records that dismayed his fans but indicated he had not given up on broad commercial aspirations. Nor had he abandoned his artistic aspirations, as the first of his series of sacred concerts, performed at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on September 16, 1965, indicated. And he still longed for a stage success, turning once again to Broadway with the musical Pousse-Café, which opened on March 18, 1966, but closed within days. Three months later, the Sinatra film Assault on a Queen, with an Ellington score, opened in movie houses around the country. (His final film score, for Change of Mind, appeared in 1969.) Ellington became a Grammy favorite in his later years. He won a 1966 Grammy for best original jazz composition for "In the Beginning, God," part of his sacred concerts. His 1967 album Far East Suite, inspired by a tour of the Middle and Far East, won the best instrumental jazz performance Grammy that year, and he took home his sixth Grammy in the same category in 1969 for And His Mother Called Him Bill, a tribute to Strayhorn, who had died in 1967. "New Orleans Suite" earned another Grammy in the category in 1971, as did "Togo Brava Suite" in 1972, and the posthumous The Ellington Suites in 1976. Ellington continued to perform regularly until he was overcome by illness in the spring of 1974, succumbing to lung cancer and pneumonia. His death did not end the band, which was taken over by his son Mercer, who led it until his own death in 1996, and then by a grandson. Meanwhile, Ellington finally enjoyed the stage hit he had always wanted when the revue Sophisticated Ladies, featuring his music, opened on Broadway on March 1, 1981, and ran 767 performances. The many celebrations of the Ellington centenary in 1999 demonstrated that he continued to be regarded as the major composer of jazz. If that seemed something of an anomaly in a musical style that emphasizes spontaneous improvisation over written composition, Ellington was talented enough to overcome the oddity. He wrote primarily for his band, allowing his veteran players room to solo within his compositions, and as a result created a body of work that seemed likely to help jazz enter the academic and institutional realms, which was very much its direction at the end of the 20th century. In that sense, he foreshadowed the future of jazz and could lay claim to being one of its most influential practitioners. "Honor the past, don't just remember it." Dizzie Gillespie https://www.facebook.com/groups/DukeofEarlGroup/ |
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Monday 15 October 2007
Cherry Bakewell Tarts
Here's the tart 'nude' i.e. before the icing and cherry (I'm sorry if that sentence got anyone excited and expecting something different!):
I'd been looking for a recipe that required glacé cherries since I purchased a ridiculously expensive pot of them at Borough Market . They look quite beautiful on the finished tart – quite literally the cherry on the icing on the cake!
Don't worry about the jam bubbling up through the almond mix - as long as you ensure the almond mix completely covers the jam you won't have any problems when baking.
The measurements set out in the recipe produced 14 tarts for me, but my tart tray is quite deep; if you use a shallow tray you may get more.
Make sure that you put the cherry on top before the icing has set so it can't fall off:
How can they fail to please – just look at the layers: pastry, jam, almond sponge, icing, cherry. Plus, they look like a cartoon drawing of a cake; I think that if you asked a child to draw a cake most would end up with something like this.
For the rich shortcrust pastry:
225g Plain flour
175g Unsalted butter, soft
1 Egg yolk
2 teaspoons caster sugar
Cold water as required – I needed only a couple of teaspoons.
For the Bakewell filling:
100g Unsalted butter
100g Caster sugar
2 Eggs
50g Ground almonds
50g Self Raising flour
1 teaspoon Almond essence (I've only just discovered almond extract is available from Lakeland)
Strawberry jam
For the icing:
175g Icing Sugar
1-2 tablespoons water
7 Glacé cherries (half for each tart)
How to make:
- Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Add the egg yolk and sugar and mix with a knife (it's more effective than a spoon).
- Add enough water to bring the dough together – you're aiming for firm but not hard. I always use my hands to do this as it gives you better control.
- If you've added too much water and the dough is sticky, don't panic – just add a little more flour.
- Wrap the pastry in clingfilm and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
- preheat oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/400°F/ Gas mark 6 and grease 14 patty tins i.e. the individual little patty indents – not 14 tins, that would be silly!
- Roll out the pastry between two sheets of greaseproof paper, this saves you having to use any extra flour. However, if you prefer, roll out on a floured board.
- Using a cutter slightly bigger than the diameter of your patty tin indents, cut out 14 circles. You will have to re-roll the pastry to get this many but it's very good natured and will re-roll several times.
- Line the greased tins with the pastry disks and spoon some jam onto each one. I used about half a heaped teaspoon for each tart.
- Now make the almond filling. Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, and after each egg, add half of the ground almonds. The mix will curdle but don' panic – as soon as you add the flour it will correct itself.
- Add the flour and almond essence and stir well. You can just mix it – there's no need to fold or be careful.
- Spoon the mix into each pastry case and bake for 20 minutes. Mine took exactly this time.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely before removing from the tin. This is because the pastry is fragile when fresh from the oven and firms as it cools.
- Mix together the icing sugar and water until smooth and glossy – adjust the measurements as required to get the right thickness. You're aiming for thick but still runny, opaque and glossy.
- Spoon onto the top of each tart. Before fully set, add half a glacé cherry on top.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.
62 comments:
- Viknits said...
You are so busy with your baking! I love it!
I'm thinking of making the choc cake for my birthday, will have to get my baking stuff from my parents house and have a go, it's ages since I baked! - 16 October 2007 at 11:39
- Nevisknitter said...
Going to try these this week, my son loves cherry bakewlls fron the shop, hope he lives these too.
- 16 October 2007 at 18:43
- glamah16 said...
When I saw those I was reminded of illustrations in some childhood books that I'd salivate over. Your right. Ive never actually seen a real pastry look like that( in the US), but they look great.Where do you find the time? I have all these projects in my head, but in reality....
- 18 October 2007 at 04:23
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Ooohhh, I love that stuff! Your Bakewell Tarts look wonderful!
Rosa - 18 October 2007 at 12:56
hello! i am obsessed with mr. kipling's cherry bakewells and was perusing the 'net in search of a copycat recipe and i stumbled upon this page.
first of all, great blog and recipes! i will now be a daily visitor! but secondly i have a question...when you baked these, you didn't need to parbake the pastry shells before adding the cake filling? i just wanted to double check before i gave them a go in my own kitchen! - 4 March 2008 at 02:06
- The Caked Crusader said...
Hi Holly May - welcome to my world of cake!
No parbaking is required at all. The pastry and the filling goes into the oven together and cooks at the same time. Couldn't be simpler!
Enjoy! - 4 March 2008 at 08:11
I stumbled upon your blog whilst looking for a recipe for Cherry Bakewells. I made these yesterday and they were just lovely. Thanks for the inspiration!
PS - your shortcrust is awesome! - 2 April 2008 at 16:03
oh...my...goodness :) i am forever in your debt. these turned out JUST like the real thing. what a success, thank you so much again! and i definitely agree with sm-matrix, this shortcrust pastry is the best i've ever had.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89798650@N00/sets/72157604392992597/ - 5 April 2008 at 05:32
Phew! Its christmas time and no cherry bakewells anywhere! (*sob*).
Been having cherry bakewells at christmas since Adam was a boy...
Thanks for this christmas saving solution page. - 22 December 2008 at 06:27
- Miss Cantankerous said...
Thank you very much for this recipe. I made a batch of cherry bakewells over the weekend and they got the thumbs up from anyone who tried them. I'll be trying out some of your other recipes as well now that I've found your blog
- 23 March 2009 at 01:31
I am so excited for this recipe...i lived in England for several years and became addicted to Mr Kiplings cherry bakewells...but you cant get those in the states (well, you CAN but it's extremely expensive). I cannot wait to try this recipe!!
- 15 May 2009 at 03:43
hey! i tried your recipe and made the most wonderful tarts. i loved them so so much.
thanks! x - 19 July 2009 at 17:41
- The Caked Crusader said...
Hi Nasreen
Thanks for your comment - I'm so glad you enjoyed them. Hope you try some more recipes! - 19 July 2009 at 18:05
- Rachel said...
I made these cherry bakewells a while ago! they are amazing!!! Thankyou for lovely recipes!!:)
- 29 July 2009 at 15:32
- Unknown said...
i have just been asked to make a giant cherry bakewell as a birthday cake your's is the first page i found and it looks good, will post when done to let you know results :)
- 27 August 2009 at 23:00
I MUST make these this weekend! You have inspired me!
I bought the Mr. Kipling variety during the holidays and wolfed them down myself, finding excuses to have tea time 5 times a day, just so I could eat them. I tried to appear not to have an addiction, but I was discovered quickly when the tarts were all gone, lickety-split!
Can I use cupcake tins for this recipe, and only go 1/2 way up the sides? I do have the mini tart pans, but those are uber-teensy, and the cherry would look awkward on them. Thanks for your cake-a-licious advice!
BTW, did you know you can make a cake in a rice cooker? Just a fun variation when you are looking to experiment with your crusade. - 28 August 2009 at 23:09
- The Caked Crusader said...
Hi Anonymous
Cucpake pan is fine - it's what I use. My pastry comes up level with the tin and the filling will dome up above that but not spill
Happy baking! - 29 August 2009 at 09:15
Thanks C.C. for your quick reply. You must have understood the urgency of my request! You're an awesome superhero!
- 29 August 2009 at 15:43
- Nuggets owner said...
Thank you so much for this recipe - I used to make these the time until I lost my nan's recipe which seemed very similar, unfortunately she's no longer with us to ask for it again.
I shall enjoy trying these later!! - 17 February 2010 at 13:29
i made these a while ago and they were honestly the nicest thing i've ever baked. and i don't even like cherry bakewells. Thank you!
- 6 March 2010 at 20:09
- RacketEar said...
I made these in muffin tins and they were delicious. Only thing I would add is it helps to know you can fill the case to 2/3rds height or so without it significantly overflowing as it bakes.
Also, I put the excess pastry in a baking tin with some jam and put the last few spoons of cake thinly over that, followed by the icing and leftover cherries and I almost prefer the bakewell thins that I got when I baked it alongside the cakes!
Thanks for a great recipe :) - 27 August 2010 at 09:48
amazing!! perfect recipe im so happy i found this it will be going straight in my home recipe book x
- 12 September 2010 at 16:09
Bravo!!!! found your recipe this morning and had to try it, I have just finished icing them now and had to try one....they are scrumptious! pastry is perfect although I will admit I was a bit wary of not blind baking it first.....definitely not needed.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe, I can definitely recommend it. - 7 October 2010 at 14:46
- Judy and Robin said...
Hi Caked Crusader. I just got back from a trip to the UK where I became addicted to Mr Kiplings Cherry Bakewells (or DR CRIPPENS as my father in law calls them!). I made a batch of yours for hubby's birthday - they didn't even last a day! Thanks a bundle from my teeth and hips!
- 8 October 2010 at 03:49
- Clara said...
I'm so glad I found your recipie - my brother loves the Mr Kipling ones and I was looking for something similar that I could make for his birthday... i'm going to give this a go but instead of making lots of small ones i'm going for one giant one! wish me luck, and thanks!
- 8 October 2010 at 15:26
- Clara said...
...And, as a follow-up: your recipie gave EXACTLY the right amount for one big cake made in an 18cm cake tin. Thanks again, even my uber-discerning family agree it was as tasty as the shop-bought ones!
- 17 October 2010 at 19:43
- Unknown said...
I know this is an old thread, so might not get an answer, but I'm going to attempt a big one for my fiance's birthday. I'm never confident with time in the oven, so do you have an idea of how long I should bake one in a 20cm tin for.
Thanks :) - 16 March 2011 at 11:11
- The Caked Crusader said...
Hi tara
My answer is I don't know cos I've never done it! I'd give it the time stated in the recipe, then check it as 10 minute intervals.
Keep an eye on the edges because, if they're browning too quickly you might want to cover them with a bit of foil
Happy baking - 16 March 2011 at 11:19
- Unknown said...
Wow, that was fast :)
Thanks a million, xxx - 16 March 2011 at 13:10
- Unknown said...
Well... I made this recipe today in a 20cm round tin. I made a giant version as a birthday cake. I used 1 & 1/2 times the recipe and baked it at 180c for 40mins.
I turned out perfect. I Couldn't be happier,it tasted exactly like the Mr. Kipling version.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank You, xx - 21 March 2011 at 17:57
- 20 April 2011 at 16:48
- The Caked Crusader said...
Dear anonymous
I guess this instruction was a little too subtle for you:
- Line the greased tins with the pastry disks and spoon some jam onto each one. I used about half a heaped teaspoon for each tart.
Happy baking sweetie - 20 April 2011 at 17:06
Baked up a batch of petite cherry bakewell tarts (using the tins that are for bite-sized tarts)in preparation for William and Kate's nuptuals. So yummy! Your recipe seems to be the same one that is located in the book,"The National Trust Book of Tea-Time Recipes." That may help some of your followers locate this recipe, and even more scrumptious delights!
- 27 April 2011 at 22:57
I saw your recipe for Cherry Bakewell and your comments about the one you had in Bakewell. This would have been a Bakewell Pudding and not Tart entirely different.
- 3 May 2011 at 17:35
- JohnM said...
If I wasn't married this would be a proposal. Awesome! The pastry in particular is very nice.
- 17 September 2011 at 23:12
WOW! What an AMAZING recipe! I'm Only 11 yet i can make these by myself and My dad lovees them! THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!
- 5 November 2011 at 14:59
These are great my children think they are better than the real thing!
Thanks - 10 December 2011 at 12:17
I doubt I'll get a reply from this but:
First off thank you! I used to be addicted to the Mr Kipling cherry bakewells but I had to give up sugar completely about 4 years ago and I've really missed them! I have a sugar substitute that I am allowed to have and I can't wait to try and make some!
My question is, I have bought some pre-made pastry tartlets because the last time I tried to make pastry it failed miserably! As these will already be part cooked will I be able to use them or will they burn if I try?
--Anna Maria - 2 February 2012 at 10:25
- The Caked Crusader said...
HI Anna Maria
Thanks for your comment - glad you enjoy my site.
Pre made pastry cases will probably work but I would think about checking the tarts earlier - maybe after 15 minutes. I've never tried this recipe with premade cases but I think the key will be the cooking time.
Hope this works
Happy baking - 2 February 2012 at 11:11
- Swan said...
Thank you so much for this!!
The first time i baked these, my classmates thought i brought it!!!
Then i baked these for my boyfriend, i made a cake tower out of it, he loved it to pieces and wants me to do it again!!
The other day i baked these for a charity and I.T event, these sold out fast!! kya!!! :D
I enjoyed every moment in baking these!!
Thank you once again for putting this recipe up!! *hugg*>_< - 29 March 2012 at 00:12
- Swan said...
Thank you so much for this!!
The first time i baked these, my classmates thought i brought it!!!
Then i baked these for my boyfriend, i made a cake tower out of it, he loved it to pieces and wants me to do it again!!
The other day i baked these for a charity and I.T event, these sold out fast!! kya!!! :D
I enjoyed every moment in baking these!!
Thank you once again for putting this recipe up!! *hugg*>_< - 29 March 2012 at 00:13
These are the bomb. Great recipe. One query...our pastry came out a little too flaky (although delicious none the less). What should we add (or take away) to firm it up and make less crumbly?
- 13 May 2012 at 20:41
- The Caked Crusader said...
Hi Bern and Becky
Was it crumbly when you brought it together? Could be that you needed a little more liquid? It's the tricky thing with pastry - it's never the same twice due to weather conditions etc.
I wonder if your egg was smaller than mine - I always use large.
Hope this helps
Happy baking
CC - 14 May 2012 at 18:53
- Joy said...
Thank you so much for this. Just thought I'd share that I have never baked in my life and yet my daughter said she'd LOVE a giant cherry bakewell for her 18th birthday so I had to give it a go. I am sooo glad I did and I'm now feeling very pleased with myself haha
I doubled everything and (due to the 8" foil pastry cases being so shallow) I ended up with 3 cakes! Shame ;)
One decorated with a '1' and the other an '8' in cherries of course! My daughter loved them and we all loved sharing the spare one :). Deeeelish! Thanks again, Joy (uk) x - 20 September 2012 at 09:46
- Unknown said...
hi i have been looking fora cherry bakewell recipe for ages i am mad on them cant wait to try this
- 10 October 2012 at 21:45
cant wait to make these i ave been looking for a cherry bakewell recipe or so long
- 10 October 2012 at 21:47
- Unknown said...
eThis is a brilliant recipe - I had searched the internet for a decent bakewell tart recipe for a long time and this was a life saver! It is being printed off and kept in my recipe book from now on.
Thank you so much. - 17 October 2012 at 14:23
I have used this recipe twice this week because they turned out so good the first time round! Amazing recipe and really quite easy which is saying something for me as I'm usually no good at baking!
I can see myself using this recipe many times in the future.
Thank you so much! - 6 December 2012 at 17:13
Great recipe - thought your readers might like some shortcuts.
You can make the pastry by putting everything in the food processor and pulsing until the paste just starts to come together. Roll out between cling film as Caked Crusader says (great tip that!)
You can make the filling by putting everything in the food processor and whizzing until thoroughly mixed.doesn't make any difference to the finished result.
The icing is also good if you use packet fondant icing sugar and mix it to make a thick but runny icing. Seems to have more body than glace.
Cwitine - 28 December 2012 at 15:02
- Claire Cardew said...
I've just made a (failed) batch of cherry bakewell tarts following a recipe from a very well known and usually reliable source; it failed on 4 different counts from crumbly pastry to runny icing. I immediately consulted google and came across your recipe, it seems to be a much better version of what I just tried! Next time I'm using this :)
- 10 February 2013 at 13:42
what a fantastic recipe now i can stop looking for the ultimate cherry bakewell recipe thanx to your recipe . i will certainly use your recipes again
- 13 June 2013 at 09:26
- Unknown said...
Oh my GOD I just stayed up until 4 AM making bakewell tarts for my husband who misses the UK. I'm in awe of them, they are the best thing I've ever made in my life ever and I love you now.
- 10 July 2013 at 09:18
Fantastic recipe. tried a couple of similar recipes but loved this. So pretty!
- 19 August 2013 at 18:27
Wonderful recipe! I live in Norway and missed the Mr Kipling bakewell tarts- these are just as good though! :9
- 6 September 2013 at 17:00
- Unknown said...
Followed your instructions and my bakewells turned out great! Passed the recipie on to a few people too :)
Fangirls&Foundations - 9 September 2013 at 15:11
Hey Cake Crusader :)
I have found your site today and it is amazing! I found it while looking for a nice cherry bakewell tart recipe and judging by all the comments on this threat I have found the one to use!
I am a keen little baker myself and only started baking cakes in the last year and seem to enjoy it a lot and all my guinea pigs seem to love my creations too, which is always nice. I am actually being made to bake these bakewell tarts by request! I am very much looking forward to trying your recipe but I wanted to thank you in advance.
I can almost guarantee I will be back looking for other recipes of yours to try too :) Although, I cant seem to find where I can subscribe to your site? x - 15 October 2013 at 13:53
The Caked Crusader! Wherever there is cake injustice, she'll be there, wherever there is a cry for "cake, more cake", you'll find her. And today, when my pathetic bleating about finding a Bakewell Tart recipe that actually worked had reached fever pitch, she indeed saved the day. Thank you, Caped Crusader, thank you. And the people of my small household in Berkshire thank you too.
- 2 December 2013 at 19:19
Hi Cake Crusader,
How much Almond mix actually needs to go into each tartlet case?
Chris - 25 January 2015 at 22:02
- plasterer bristol said...
Yum my favorite, thanks for sharing this fantastic recipe.
Simon - 8 February 2016 at 07:03
So, I used this recipe to make a huge cherry bakewell about 4 or 5 years ago and it left such an impression on my friends that I was asked to make it as a wedding gift this year. I had completely forgotten which recipe I used, but after following this recipe today, my suspicions were confirmed. This is the best cherry bakewell recipe of all time! I think I used raspberry jam last time but cherry and plum this time, but regardless of the jam the tastes and textures are spot on. Thank you!
- 4 May 2017 at 23:04
Just made these, they came out amazing. I bought the Mr Kipling brand at the same time so I could compare. These were definitely better. I ended up cooking mine for about 25 mins. Many thanks from Australia
https://i.imgur.com/bee1E7r.jpg - 14 April 2018 at 10:51
- Babsie said...
I wish you were still on this blog - because I love it. And I make these Cherry Bakewells every year for my husband's birthday. Thank you. xxxx
- 20 November 2022 at 19:28


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Release Date: 2013 | Tracklist
SgtPepper EMERITUS (3.9)Josh Homme & Co. return with a stellar album that blends their many influences and idiosyn...Sowing STAFF (5)One of the greatest rock albums of all time....AaronBatt (4)The best rock album of 2013?...Minus. (4)And like clockwork, QOTSA makes another solid album albeit slightly overrated....
MikeC26 (4)"if reason is priceless then there's no reason to pay for it."...BrianE (3.5)Queens of the Stone Age look to prove they're more than just a mere rock band....kvltwalter (3.5)Josh Homme looks to the past and mixes in a little bit of the darkness into their light, c...brandaao (4)...Like Clockwork shows a band not afraid to take their characteristic sound and push it i...
bmon13 (5)One of the most important albums of my life (thus far)...FCY (4)Not your average everyday stoner....Alex445 (4)"I blow my load over the status quo."...jamiecoughlan (3)Middle of the road return from QOTSA, that they've been sliding toward for 8 years....
Geist (5)TL;DR: It's an incredible album that just got better with time and context....Paul4 (5)The seductive power and engaging Like clockwork .....
Album Rating: 4.5Hernan's review for that should be better and less hyperbolic. Here's an awesome NPR gig: http://www.npr.org/event/music/185557912/first-listen-live-queens-of-the-stone-age-like-clockwork
Typo of Songs for the Deaf in 2nd paragraph cracking review, need to check this out
Album Rating: 4.0"[i]...Like Clockwork[i]" excellent review as always, although i wholly disagree. aside from a coupe amazing tracks this didnt resonate with me as much as i hoped
Album Rating: 4.5Thanks guys. Fixed. It's grown on me heaps since my first spin. For me, 7 tracks out of 10 are highlights at this point. The LP truly benefits from the fact that it contains 10 songs, and not 13 for example.
Album Rating: 4.5On my first listen I was sure it was beautiful train-wreck, it felt inconsistent. But after jamming everything else they did, it feels like natural progression. Sexy record.
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, this is really good. Feeling a 4. to SftD's 4.5
Album Rating: 4.1Strong review, I agree with you. I really like this record, it grows on me with each listen. Homme's vocals are really cool, especially the transitions to falsettos, which are really often on the record. Wish there was a demented track with Oliveri on vocals, for the good times, oh well... Also, there should've been more power added to the guitars, or at least a harder hitting track, much like Lullabies had.
Album Rating: 4.0When I heard Jon Theodore was gonna be on this, I knew it would be awesome. Nice review
Album Rating: 4.1As far as I know, Jon only played on the title track.
Album Rating: 3.5Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about Greg. Nailed it with this review.
Album Rating: 4.0whatever, based on all the positive attention it's getting i'm sure to check it eventually
Album Rating: 4.0What guest appearances are there?
Album Rating: 4.0i'm with INS on this one, unfortunately
Album Rating: 4.5@insomniac15: After a couple of spins, I think any heavier stoner rock track would feel out of place on this record. But yeah... we will never know. I have a feeling that he had such tracks written for this LP, but somehow didn't include them. "What guest appearances are there?" I only spotted Elton John tbh.
Album Rating: 4.1Kalopsia - Trent Reznor If I Had A Tail - Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Nick Oliveri Fairweather Friends - Elton John, Mark Lanegan, Trent Reznor, Nick Oliveri, Brody Dalle Smooth Sailing - Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) They are credited, but most of them (especially on Fairweather Friends) are inaudible. Reznor I'm assuming had a lot to do with the musical direction on Kalopsia, but you never know. @greg - Yeah, the songs follow the same vibe throughout, but after My God Is The Sun, a harder song could've been the peak. Still, I'm happy with the record the way it is.
Album Rating: 5.0I have been jamming this album like no other since it leaked. My only complaint is that there aren't more hard hitting tracks similar to My God is the Sun.
Album Rating: 3.5Two guest appearences from Trent Reznor should be enough reason alone for anyone to immediately listen to this album.
Album Rating: 3.9I'm not going to read this just yet, but I'm sure it's well written. I am glad that we have different ratings (I have this at a 3.9), like Insurrection said, I thought it was a strong album, but overall not the epic comeback that everyone was hoping for. Still excellent though.
Album Rating: 4.5Cool. That makes it more interesting. I knew your review will be less hyperbolic.
Album Rating: 3.9Oh believe me, I'm capable of hyperbolic claims as well, but I don't know, this didn't "wow" me as much as I was hoping. I thought it was a great album, but nothing really grabbed my attention like "A Song For The Deaf" from Songs For The Deaf or "Better Living Through Chemistry" from Rated R. There's more focus here, but no energy, at leas that's how I feel so far. I'm excited to read this though, after I'm done with mine.
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BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government's heaviest smoker.
It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an Industrial Revolution production line. It can smoke 20 cigarettes at once and conclude which are unsafe because they are counterfeit and which are unsafe merely because they are cigarettes.
Down the hall, a chemist tests shiny flecks from a bottle of Goldschlager, the spicy cinnamon schnapps, to make sure they're real gold. A government agent was sent out to stores to buy it and hundreds of other alcoholic drinks randomly chosen for analysis.
Back at headquarters in downtown Washington, a staffer prepares for a meeting of the Tequila Working Group _ a committee created to mollify Mexico and keep bulk tequila flowing north across the border.
These are the proud scientists, rule-makers and trade ambassadors of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, one of the federal government's least-known and most peculiar corners.
The bureau, known as TTB, collects taxes on booze and smokes and tells the companies that produce them how to do business _ from approving beer can labels to deciding how much air a gin bottle can contain between lid and liquor.
It decides which valleys in Oregon and California can slap their names on wine labels, what grapes can go into wine and which new alcoholic drinks are safe to import.
The bureau is one example of the specialized government offices threatened by Washington's current zeal for cost-cutting. Obama administration officials weighed eliminating it during the fiscal stalemate of 2011, according to news reports at the time. Its officials were called to the White House budget office to justify their existence _ or risk having their duties split between the Internal Revenue Service and the Food and Drug Administration.
The White House ultimately left the bureau's $100 million budget in place for this year _ perhaps because it spends far less money to collect each tax dollar than its counterpart, the IRS. But officials there remain hyper-aware of their vulnerability as Republicans and Democrats look to squeeze savings from unlikely places.
If they look closely, the belt-tighteners will discover an agency whose responsibilities often appear to conflict _ a regulator that protects its industry from rules it deems unfair, a tax collector that sometimes cuts its companies a break.
Some of its decisions are open to negotiation. A tequila-like liquor with a scorpion floating in it made scientists balk until the producer convinced them that the scorpions are farm-raised and non-toxic.
In other words, this may be the only federal agency that responds favorably to receiving scorpion candy in the mail _ an edible tool for persuading scientists that the arthropods were fit for human consumption.
If labs, rules and taxes weren't enough for the bureau's 500-odd employees, they also have law enforcement authority. TTB investigators can send people to jail for things like removing alcohol from the production line and reselling it before it has been taxed by authorities.
With all these responsibilities, it's no surprise the agency's priorities sometimes clash. The bureau gives companies a wide berth on some rules and taxes, officials and experts say, mainly because of its small size and history of collaborating with business. It has granted millions in tax givebacks because of concerns that companies will sue and tie up government resources.
"Because we're regulated by such a friendly agency, and because enforcement isn't huge, there's a level of non-compliance that's sort of acceptable," says Rachel Dumas Rey, president of Compli, a California company that helps wineries comply with Treasury policy.
Agency officials say they use scant resources where they can make the most difference, generally on the biggest producers or companies where there is an indication of wrongdoing.
Yet last July, the bureau slashed a tax bill for the multinational agribusiness conglomerate Cargill from $839,370 to $63,000. Cargill failed to report or pay taxes on about 23,000 gallons of nearly pure industrial alcohol that leaked from a rail car, violating several U.S. laws, according to documents on the bureau's website.
Since 2010, under similar deals with alcohol and tobacco companies, the agency has forgiven more than $25.4 million; the total amount is unclear because some public documents do not list the size of the tax bill or penalty that is being reduced. Nine companies persuaded the agency to slash their bills by more than 95 percent, including Procter & Gamble's Olay subsidiary, which uses alcohol in its skin care products.
Tom Hogue, a spokesman for the bureau and former explosives inspector, says it only agrees to reduce companies' tax bills "if we are satisfied that the (remaining) penalty is commensurate with the violation and is sufficient to deter future illegal conduct." In cases where settlements are granted, Hogue says, "they allow us to use our resources to counter non-compliance, instead of tying them up in court."
When the alcohol and tobacco bureau was split from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, it held on to the former agency's tax collection duties, including for firearms and ammunition. It's still the government's third-biggest revenue collector, after the IRS and Customs and Border Protection. It took in $23.5 billion in federal taxes on alcohol, tobacco, weapons and ammo in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011, the most recent data available. That amounts to $468 for every dollar the agency spent collecting taxes _ more than twice the IRS' ratio, officials note.
The bureau also works with government trade officials to protect and expand international markets for American alcohol and tobacco. Its expertise is crucial in negotiating with Europeans about wine labeling, or standing up to countries that refuse to recognize American "straight bourbon" for what the government says it is: corn whiskey stored in charred new oak containers for at least two years.
In this role, the agency has come to the rescue over the years of whiskey lovers in China, Colombia and Brazil. Those countries' governments tried to ban booze containing too much fusel alcohol, the pungent byproduct of fermentation that gives some whiskey its spicy, solvent-like aroma. Working through international trade groups, armed with data from TTB scientists, U.S. officials spent years convincing them to reverse their policies and allow the importation of whiskey that meets American standards. That was a win for American alcohol producers.
Sometimes, to protect U.S. producers, the bureau erects trade barriers of its own. Under a proposal by the bureau last spring, anything labeled Pisco must have originated in Chile and Peru. (Pisco is a South American grape brandy whose signature cocktail, the Pisco Sour, is so celebrated that it has its own official Peruvian holiday.)
Aspiring Pisco producers in Bolivia, in the U.S. government's eyes, can take a hike.
This is no accident: It's the result of a trade agreement that compels Chile and Peru, in exchange for the Pisco rule, to make sure any bourbon sold there is from the U.S. and meets this country's standards.
The U.S. is the only nation with an alcohol regulator based in its Treasury Department. Treasury was the federal government's monitor of products seen as sinful or illicit even before Prohibition began in 1919.
When the government first tried to crack down on cocaine and heroin in 1914, it did so by enacting steep taxes. For a time, marijuana also was controlled by imposing taxes so high, it was hoped, that people might lose interest.
After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the government tried to keep a handle on the alcohol industry by writing production standards for alcohol directly into the tax code. That's where wine's alcohol content is limited to 24 percent.
The government uses taxes to control social phenomena, explains Bill Foster, who ran the bureau's headquarters before retiring this summer.
"Tobacco and alcohol are two of those commodities," Foster says.
The taxes are collected directly from producers and manufacturers, which pass those costs along to consumers. Liquor producers generally pay a flat rate of $13.50 per proof gallon _ a gallon of liquid that is one-half alcohol by volume. Small cigars and cigarettes are taxed at a rate of $50.33 per 1,000 sticks.
The current Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau was split from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in 2003. ATF was moved to the Justice Department, where it focuses on firearms, explosives and violent crime.
Officials who regulate and tax alcohol and tobacco remained at Treasury, where they continue to ensure that wine doesn't contain pesticides and absinthe is free of thujone, the psychoactive ingredient _ now banned _ that gave it its hallucinogenic reputation.
That's how Dr. Abdul Mabud found himself overseeing 26 chemists at a lab in Beltsville, Md., that tests hundreds of bottles, cigarettes and perfumes every year.
One afternoon, Mabud holds aloft a jar of pure, clear alcohol containing a coiled king cobra, its hood flared and forked tongue extended. Surrounding it are smaller green snakes that appear to be biting each other's tails.
The snake liquor was submitted for consideration as an import from east Asia, where snakes are believed to increase virility.
"With that much snake in there, it's probably not a beverage," Mabud says, explaining why the shelves of America's liquor stores and supermarkets are free of giant, gin-soaked snakes.
Mabud traces his lab's history to 1886, when Congress passed steep taxes on margarine _ at the time, an upstart competitor to the nation's dairy products. The 1886 law aimed to prevent crooked margarine-pushers from selling their product as butter. Treasury's first food-quality lab was set up to preserve butter's integrity.
Today, the bureau owns some of the most sophisticated equipment available, including the smoking machine, which can be set to inhale in at least three ways, depending on how long and hard the smoker being simulated prefers to puff: light, medium and Canadian. The last one is when the perforations around the cigarette's filter are blocked and the machine takes bigger, more frequent puffs. It was invented by the Canadian government, and does not necessarily reflect the actual smoking habits of Canadians, says Dawit Bezabeh, chief of the bureau's tobacco lab.
"That's the worst-case scenario," he says.
Officials are less chatty about a third agency priority: The diplomatically sensitive work of promoting the international alcohol and tobacco trade.
The bureau helps strike deals with other countries that have liquor industries, like the one with Peru and Chile over Pisco. The idea is to protect U.S. alcohol and tobacco producers from unfair competition. Jim Beam's prices might be easily undercut, for example, if an overseas firm was allowed to label something as bourbon even though it was aged in a cask that is neither charred nor oak nor new.
That's how the Tequila Working Group was born. Citing safety concerns, Mexico had threatened to stop exporting bulk tequila _ a commodity that supports 500 U.S. bottling jobs. After the bureau agreed in 2006 to regular meetings with Mexico's tequila industry, Mexico backed down. The jobs were saved.
Until the early 2000s, the U.S. negotiated wine-making standards as part of a European wine trade group. As the American wine industry blossomed, officials began to believe that the group was favoring European wineries, for example, by refusing to endorse American agricultural methods. Every member of the group had veto power, and France was willing to use it.
The U.S. escaped Europe's dominance by joining with other oenological up-and-comers like Australia, Argentina, Canada, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa to form the World Wine Trade Group. The group encourages countries to accept each other's wine-making methods.
Its complicated history helps explain why the bureau looks and acts different from most government offices. As a tax-collecting agency, it wants to see its industries thrive. As a consumer-protection outfit tasked with keeping antifreeze-spiked wine off the market, the bureau must rein in dangerous, sloppy practices by industry members.
If other government agencies ran that way, the Consumer Product Safety Commission would be promoting U.S. baby crib makers at the same time it evaluated their products as potential death traps.
"There's some peril with that kind of approach," says Jeff Bumgarner, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Minnesota who studies the history of federal law enforcement. "The trade part of your mission is one of support and standing up the industries, and the tax collection part and the regulatory part and the compliance part is one of holding those industries in check."
That basic conflict leaves the U.S. government with an alcohol regulator that recently hosted industry executives at conferences to educate them about the bureau's rules and encourage "voluntary compliance," then months later raided a Native American reservation that was suspected of harboring cigarette tax evaders.
Critics say the bureau's close relationship with industry makes it less likely to take a hard line against violators.
Foster sees it another way. He says agents and officials like him are more effective overseers of the industry because they started out working on the distillery floor, measuring batches of liquor and handing producers their tax bills.
"It gave us all a significant understanding of how the industry operates and what their challenges were," he says.
Agency officials say they are making the most of limited resources, and doing better than most federal departments. And their workload is increasing steadily. The alcohol and tobacco bureau is responsible, for example, for approving every label to be used on an alcohol product in the U.S. As the number of microbrewers and microdistilleries explodes, the work of reviewing those labels is becoming a heavier lift.
The bureau now regulates more than 56,000 companies, an increase of 27 percent since 2007. In that time, its core budget rose only 8 percent.
Like any government office, the agency has had its share of hiccups. Agawam grapes were known on U.S. wine labels as Agwam grapes until the bureau corrected its spelling error in rules published last year.
Vintners with leftover Agwam labels were given until October to stop using them.
Daniel Wagner can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/wagnerreports.
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