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which_chickIt is time for holiday cookies. The thing is, it isn't suitably cold outside to motivate me. I'm still making an effort, but I'm just not feeling the love like I do some years. Ah, well.
The Moravian Spice Cookies have been mixed up and are ready to bake tonight. I will be doing that immediately after posting this. I also have the stuff to mix up sand tarts and will make the dough and generate the pre-rolling patty shapes this evening after I'm done with the MSC. The sand tarts will be ready to bake tomorrow, which I am planning to do while I am waiting for the DSL guy. (I am buying myself DSL for the coming year as an xmas present to myself.) On a 1-10 difficulty scale, MSC and sand tarts both rank a low 9.
I also need to mix up currant cookie dough tonight so that I can make currant cookies for my dad, but those are duck soup and will not take very long. I'm hoping to get them underway after the sand tarts on Thursday because my weekend is rapidly filling up with activities. I'm not providing a link to the recipe for currant cookies because I don't have one done up and because normal humans do not like them anyway. Currant cookies (they're Welsh!) are rather bland, dough-flavored sugar cookies that, unluckily for them, have been set upon by an affliction* of currants. Currants, if you've never eaten them, are like raisins except that they're small, crunchy, and tart/bitter where raisins are large, soft, and sweet. Other than that, they're like raisins. Currant cookies are not brown nor are they crispy. They're white-n-doughy. (In truth, I cannot bring msyelf to make proper currant cookies. In order to achieve the correct texture and lack o' browning, I'd have to use margerine instead of butter and I just can't do that. So, I use butter and make slightly firmer, slightly browner currant cookies than are proper. すみません、お父さん) Anyway, I expect you have to be raised eating currant cookies to like them. Currant cookies are a 6 on the difficulty scale, though, so it's not like they're hard.
In case you were wondering about other entries on the difficulty scale, here are some. Scratch oatmeal-raisin-walnut cookies (as per the recipe here), chocolate chip cookies (as per the Nestle package directions), and snickerdoodles (which I do not much like) represent difficulty level 4. No-bakes are a 3. The slice-n-bake tubes of proto-cookie you buy from the fridge section of the grocery, those are a 2. A 1, not that anyone asked, is opening the packet of Oreos and setting them on the table.
What holiday baking are you doing at your house?
*I'm not being mean. An affliction is the collective noun for currants, much as herd is the collective noun for cattle, pack is the collective noun for wolves, and murder is the collective noun for crows.
The Moravian Spice Cookies have been mixed up and are ready to bake tonight. I will be doing that immediately after posting this. I also have the stuff to mix up sand tarts and will make the dough and generate the pre-rolling patty shapes this evening after I'm done with the MSC. The sand tarts will be ready to bake tomorrow, which I am planning to do while I am waiting for the DSL guy. (I am buying myself DSL for the coming year as an xmas present to myself.) On a 1-10 difficulty scale, MSC and sand tarts both rank a low 9.
I also need to mix up currant cookie dough tonight so that I can make currant cookies for my dad, but those are duck soup and will not take very long. I'm hoping to get them underway after the sand tarts on Thursday because my weekend is rapidly filling up with activities. I'm not providing a link to the recipe for currant cookies because I don't have one done up and because normal humans do not like them anyway. Currant cookies (they're Welsh!) are rather bland, dough-flavored sugar cookies that, unluckily for them, have been set upon by an affliction* of currants. Currants, if you've never eaten them, are like raisins except that they're small, crunchy, and tart/bitter where raisins are large, soft, and sweet. Other than that, they're like raisins. Currant cookies are not brown nor are they crispy. They're white-n-doughy. (In truth, I cannot bring msyelf to make proper currant cookies. In order to achieve the correct texture and lack o' browning, I'd have to use margerine instead of butter and I just can't do that. So, I use butter and make slightly firmer, slightly browner currant cookies than are proper. すみません、お父さん) Anyway, I expect you have to be raised eating currant cookies to like them. Currant cookies are a 6 on the difficulty scale, though, so it's not like they're hard.
In case you were wondering about other entries on the difficulty scale, here are some. Scratch oatmeal-raisin-walnut cookies (as per the recipe here), chocolate chip cookies (as per the Nestle package directions), and snickerdoodles (which I do not much like) represent difficulty level 4. No-bakes are a 3. The slice-n-bake tubes of proto-cookie you buy from the fridge section of the grocery, those are a 2. A 1, not that anyone asked, is opening the packet of Oreos and setting them on the table.
What holiday baking are you doing at your house?
*I'm not being mean. An affliction is the collective noun for currants, much as herd is the collective noun for cattle, pack is the collective noun for wolves, and murder is the collective noun for crows.
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Date: 2006-12-14 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-14 02:56 am (UTC)The Moravian spice cookies sound yummy! I'm hoping to manage Spekulaas, which is essentially Dutch gingerbread, but at this rate, it might be "holiday" Rice Krispie squares with the red & green version of the cereal...
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Date: 2006-12-15 06:59 pm (UTC)Holiday baking: muted, due to not being able to enjoy butter cookies this year. And I am not making the cassatta with the dark-chocolate-in-a-matrix-of-butter icing, not if I can't eat it.
I will probably make the lemon balls even though I think they had butter, but then I will make myself macaroons to balance it out. I may try making mom's stollen, though I haven't checked it for butter.