Adventures in baking
Dec. 21st, 2014 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaThis comes to you from a laptop perched on a kitchen table right next to the flour packet! and not six inches from the rolling pin --Christmas baking is in progress. Not that I'm doing a great deal, because there's just two of us here, but:
I made runesnspoons' family traditional chocolate biscuits! I can report that they are easy to make and lovely to look at, with their crunchy crinkly surface and a dusting of white across the brown - and give a generous six dozen biscuits per batch. Thank you, runesnspoons! (now to try to attach a picture. no.failed again. DW seems only to want images with a URL, not ones just from my pictures file,or in this case direct from the camera. I'll put them on LJ.)
And then I made gingerbread--not a gingerbread man, alas. I scoured the town, and couldn't find a cutter anywhere - and didn't feel like artistically hand-cutting a dozen or more gingerbread men - so I made stars and hearts instead. And they worked so well that today I am ambitiously making a Gingerbread House!! The first section is in the oven as I type.
[time passes]
Well, this has been enormous fun!! A learning experience, definitely :D and the house is not a thing of beauty, and won't be a joy forever, but... well, it was fun making it. I hope they like it at work tomorrow. Now I'd like to make one for two lovely older women we know, and for the party we're invited to Christmas Eve. But I'll probably run out of energy before then.
Over on LJ, I'll post a couple of gingerbread house pictures-one in the making stage, and one of the nearly finished product - I'll sift icing sugar snow last thing before work tomorrow.
I made runesnspoons' family traditional chocolate biscuits! I can report that they are easy to make and lovely to look at, with their crunchy crinkly surface and a dusting of white across the brown - and give a generous six dozen biscuits per batch. Thank you, runesnspoons! (now to try to attach a picture. no.failed again. DW seems only to want images with a URL, not ones just from my pictures file,or in this case direct from the camera. I'll put them on LJ.)
And then I made gingerbread--not a gingerbread man, alas. I scoured the town, and couldn't find a cutter anywhere - and didn't feel like artistically hand-cutting a dozen or more gingerbread men - so I made stars and hearts instead. And they worked so well that today I am ambitiously making a Gingerbread House!! The first section is in the oven as I type.
[time passes]
Well, this has been enormous fun!! A learning experience, definitely :D and the house is not a thing of beauty, and won't be a joy forever, but... well, it was fun making it. I hope they like it at work tomorrow. Now I'd like to make one for two lovely older women we know, and for the party we're invited to Christmas Eve. But I'll probably run out of energy before then.
Over on LJ, I'll post a couple of gingerbread house pictures-one in the making stage, and one of the nearly finished product - I'll sift icing sugar snow last thing before work tomorrow.
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