A day in the smial

Today was blessedly quiet, albeit filled with small tasks. Those were as listed below:
- washing my hair;
- covering all 27 newly acquired empty toilet rolls with reused Christmas paper and folding and filling quite a few, until I run out of candy;
- making a handful of beads for the next tinfoil garland;
- making stuffed chicken for lunch;
- writing a list for the Christmas baking - it isn't quite finalized yet, but at least I now have an idea what I'll be baking.

Not much, I know, but in-between the normal daily chores, they ate my whole day. Then I talked to my friend and (ex-)colleague, Ilike, on the phone, planning out what we'll make with the emptied mini jam jars* (the actual jam had long expired and had to be thrown out) and what we'll give our choir-mates as a joint gift.

(*) I'll was and disinfect the little jars thoroughly and will refill them with the not-quite-grapefruit jam. Then we'll sell them on the fair.

Baking plan for Christmas 2023

A preliminary one that might still be subject to changes, but at least I've got an outline now.

1) Cashew-coconut balls
2) Marzipan pretzels
3) Todán fánk (=walnut snails made of yeast dough)
4) Vanillekipferln
5) Ischler, decorated in 2 different ways
6) Orangenbusserln
7) Zimt-Stempelkekse with Spekulaas creme filling
8) "Schokohimmel" Stempelkekse with pistachio creme filling
9) Almond-poppy seed biscuits filled with apricot jam
10)Hazelnut stars
11)Kokoskipferln (might be ejected from the list)
12)Ingwerkracher (ginger meringues)
13)Yellow ginger biscuits (new)
14)Ginger-cashew biscuits
15)Soft chocolate cookies in 2 different versions (with raisins and walnuts and with orange zest and chocolate icing, respectively)
16)Coffee bean cookies (new)
17)Coffee-cocoa biscuits (new)
18)Macadamia cookies
19)Fine macadamia biscuits
20)Hazelnut-nougat biscuits
21)Brazil nut cookies
22)Maple-pecan cookies
23)Chocolate pretzels with pistachios
24)Chestnut fingers
25)Cardamom cookies with pistachios
26)Chessboard biscuits - done!
27)Chocolate-peanut cookies
28) Orangenbusserln, other version
29) Haselnussplätzchen
20) Financiers