Baking disasters and other funny things
Nov. 4th, 2011 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI was baking today. Yeah, surprising, innit? I tried out the gingerbread cookie recipe I wanted to bake with the kids before Xmas. Guess what? We won't be baking it. I could not get the dough to a consistence that would have enable me to roll it out in the first place. Of course, what can you expect from a recipe that requires 4 tablespoons of butter? Not melted butter, mind you, just regular butter. Now, how on Earth am I supposed to measure butter with a tablespoon? (A colleague of mine suggested using a bomb, but that was too radical for my taste.)
Clearly, I couldn't get the amounts right. The dough fell apart like Hungarian economy, and let me tell you, that's a spectacular fall! So I made little buttons and baked them, and then painted them with eggwhite and rolled them in coloured sugar. Even so, they are slighlty bitter. 3 teaspoons of ginger were too much. I never listen to the recipe again.
OTOH, I also baked the honeycake house from the Dr.Oetker package, and it turned out great. Even the sugar icing from the tube worked. It's a lovely little thing, my Knusperhäuschen, Mum is happy with it.
Other than that, I wrote a lot of Merlin stuff (4 pages of Chapter 11) and watched some TV. "Richterin Barbara Salesch" und "Panda, Gorilla & Co". I need to nurture my German a bit, too.
Clearly, I couldn't get the amounts right. The dough fell apart like Hungarian economy, and let me tell you, that's a spectacular fall! So I made little buttons and baked them, and then painted them with eggwhite and rolled them in coloured sugar. Even so, they are slighlty bitter. 3 teaspoons of ginger were too much. I never listen to the recipe again.
OTOH, I also baked the honeycake house from the Dr.Oetker package, and it turned out great. Even the sugar icing from the tube worked. It's a lovely little thing, my Knusperhäuschen, Mum is happy with it.
Other than that, I wrote a lot of Merlin stuff (4 pages of Chapter 11) and watched some TV. "Richterin Barbara Salesch" und "Panda, Gorilla & Co". I need to nurture my German a bit, too.
