Well... it clearly wasn't meant to be...
May. 22nd, 2021 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartApparently, I'm not born to make a good Swiss roll. Or it's because my utter lack of mathematical abilities. In any case, I tried to modify Grandma's ever-successful 6-egg-sponge to an 8-eggs version... and I ended up with this:
That it is flat and not very pretty is the lesser problem. Alas, the sponge turned out hard and leathery - something that never happened to me with this recipe before! Either I'm cursed or I'm stupid and can't count and calculated the amount of dry ingredients (= flour and sugar) wrong. We'll eat it anyway, if only for the home-made strawberry jam, chopped fresh strawberries, eggnog and white chocolate, with which it's been filled, but I'm very disappointed nonetheless.
Other than that, not much happened. I made lemony chicken to go with the leftovers from yesterday and did the weekly laundry. That about ate my whole day, so the tiny bit of sewing I planned for today fell to the wayside.
Also, it is very cold in the flat. Thermometer says it's 21°C, but it feels less. Much less. We've dug out our winter clothes again and are wearing several layers. On May 22. Ridiculous.
That it is flat and not very pretty is the lesser problem. Alas, the sponge turned out hard and leathery - something that never happened to me with this recipe before! Either I'm cursed or I'm stupid and can't count and calculated the amount of dry ingredients (= flour and sugar) wrong. We'll eat it anyway, if only for the home-made strawberry jam, chopped fresh strawberries, eggnog and white chocolate, with which it's been filled, but I'm very disappointed nonetheless.
Other than that, not much happened. I made lemony chicken to go with the leftovers from yesterday and did the weekly laundry. That about ate my whole day, so the tiny bit of sewing I planned for today fell to the wayside.
Also, it is very cold in the flat. Thermometer says it's 21°C, but it feels less. Much less. We've dug out our winter clothes again and are wearing several layers. On May 22. Ridiculous.
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Date: 2021-05-23 04:34 pm (UTC)