Saturdays are always busy

Firstly, because it's our laundry day. Secondly because I decided that today was the day to bake a real, honest, down-to-earth Guglhupf - the original one, made of yeast dough, as they were done long before baking powder was invented. With lots of chopped almonds and candied fruit and raisins inside. Fortunately, after leafing through several recipe collections, I found one that was relatively easy to make (although there was a point where I started panicking in honest, as I never before worked with such a soft dough).

This is how it turned out:



It is a bit lopsided, as I didn't have the room to form the roll properly, but it was just for us, so I don't really mind. Also, I baked it in a wreath tin, because the amount of dough would never have fit into a Guglhupf tin. I don't know what the recipe author was thinking, trying to fit it into a 22 cm diameter tin!

In any case, I also finished the wedding card for A, who married her sweetheart today in a very small circle. (We'll throw her a proper party when the stupid virus has gone away.)



As you can see, the front hasn't changed much. As for the empty space in the inside right, that's where we'll all sign the card for A. I'm meeting up with E. on Tuesday to give her the card, as she's doing the organization for the wedding gift.

Other than that, I also made some small headway with my Blood Ties/Kindred: the Embraced crossover story. Only a page and a half, but headway is headway and ought to be valued in these creatively dried-out times.

Kindred Spirits 4.1

Kindred Spirits
by Soledad

Rating: Teens and above, for some canon-compliant violence.

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Part Four

This was Nahir’s first visit to the Royal Ontario Museum, and he had to admit he was impressed, despite all the wonders he had already seen in his unnaturally long life. Despite the "Crystal," the multimillion-dollar expansion to the Museum, the canted walls of which did not touch the sides of the existing heritage buildings but were used to close the envelope between the new form and the existing walls. He simply found the new building ugly and ill-fitting in its traditional surroundings. But he’d observed in the many, many years of his existence that people liked to break the harmony of their surroundings, just to get attention, no matter what kind. Especially those who considered themselves artists.
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