A bit more crafty today

[wiseheart]

... even though I had to do my chores first. Namely: taking down the dried laundry, helping Mum to wash her hair, dismantling the Christmas tree, putting away the ornaments, making that beetroot salad I didn't get around to make yesterday and other such things.

But I did finish the front cover of the "Hello Kitty" booklet, and in a sudden bout of madness I started to cut out the bases of four other booklets. I've got five recipients, between the age of two and eight, either sisters or cousins of each other - it won't do for one of them to get a treat while the other one doesn't, right?

I decided to go into mass production mode - meaning that I won't complete one booklet and then go on to the other one. Instead, I'll do one phase at a time... or rather five times. That proved to be easier by other projects that required the same things to be done repeatedly.

Mum's 91st birthday party is looming on the horizon. Last night (literally, around midnight) I've made the fruit mix for Mary Berry's mincemeat streusel, using up a small jar of 20-year-old Rumtopf we were given by Austrian friends, back in the Stone Age when we were still able to leave the country. It is about two pounds of colourful mix of raisins, sultanas, dried currants, dried cranberries, dried apricots and mixed citrus peel. I think this will be a traybake with a powerful kick. *g*

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[artemis10002000]

Ancient rumtopf! Yeah, that will definitely be strong after 20 years of soaking. It will be delicious, too.

I didn't get as much done as I would have liked (again) but I did finally get to the Zimtsterne I never got to make for Christmas so now the baking supplies corner has been somewhat reduced without the ground almonds, and I made eggnog with the egg yolks.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Mum used to make eggnog a long, long time ago. Nowadays we simply buy it at Aldi, since one flask lasts us a year or more. *g*

[meathiel]

Oh dear ... I can just imagine all the old dears getting slightly tipsy!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, it is a party where my friends will be coming to celebrate Mum's birthday — unless the kids get ill or whatnot. We decided that she needed some fun in her life. *g*

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I seriously hope that rumtopf is still edible. We do one every year and fill it up to smaller pots after Christmas, which are kept in the fridge afterwards. We never had one older than three years, which meant that technically it was okay, but the fruits were- let's say it in a gentle way- mushy.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is very much edible. I took a tiny bite of every sort of fruits that were innit, and they were still crispy. Otherwise I wouldn't have mixed the whole thing to the rest of the goodies.

[artemis10002000]

Heya, I know it's her birthday today, so happy birthday to your mom! I hope you two are having a wonderful day and are enjoying all the cooking you have been working on.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you, from both of us! The funny thing is, you are the only person on my flist who has met her in person — well, the only one still occasionally present on LJ, that is.

[artemis10002000]

It is a visit I still think very fondly of! We had such a nice day.