Sewing group - second time
Nov. 18th, 2019 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartToday started early; I had choir practice with the Oldies, starting at 8.30 am, as I've been invited into the smaller group that will sing Müller's Ave Maria at the Christmas concerts. It's a completely voluntary thing, I just didn't want to push myself forward, being the new kid in the box and all that. But G, the choir leader, asked me if I'd like to join, and I did, quite happily.
Choir practice escalated into a cake orgy afterwards, due to the fact that there are 4 Elizabeths among us, and a 5th one had birthday. The Oldies like to celebrate such things and quite a few of them are excellent bakers. No guys were involved today, so we didn't have champagne, but it was fun nonetheless.
Coming home I translated a bit (almost 2 pages), then I cobbled together a quick lunch (roast sausages and a salad; Mum made mashed potatoes, and we had leftover apple soup), and then it was almost time to go to the sewing group again.
I've finished the XL Elves (pictures tomorrow, or so I hope) and started on the teddy bears. They need palms and soles and the inside of their ears sewn on before I'd put them together. I chose to sew them by hand; others made lots and lots of basically identical teddies with the sewing machine - I dare to say that mine will be magnitudes cuter. But it will be a lot of work, as always.
Then one of the colleagues gave me this pattern:
She said she'd printed it out specifically for me. So I took some felt home with me so that I can make Rudolph... assuming I can. It will be delicate work, too, but an interesting challenge.
Oh, and BTW, the chocolate-peanut cookies were a hit. Here is the recipe in English, in case![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meathiel isn't the only one interested.
Ingredients:
120 grams of white flour
50 grams of sugar
100 grams of peanuts, roast, chopped
100 grams of dark chocolate, chopped
50 grams of peanut butter
100 grams of butter or margarine
1 egg
1 pinch of baking powder
chocolate icing to decorate it afterwards
How to make it?
- Mix flour, sugar, peanuts, chocolate and baking powder in a dish.
- Melt butter and peanut butter in a small pot and allow it to cool a little.
- Add egg, butter and peanut butter to the dry ingredients; stir it with a wooden spoon.
- Form little balls of the size of a small walnut and set them onto the baking tin (buttered or lined with baking paper). Leave enough room between cookies to expand.
- Bake it in a pre-heated oven (180°C, Gas: 2) for 20 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the tin for a few minutes.
- Melt chocolate icing and drop half a teaspoon full on top of every cookie.
It's really easy to make; it takes about 35-40 minutes altogether, including preparations, and you'll have about 20-25 cookies, depending on the size you make them.
Choir practice escalated into a cake orgy afterwards, due to the fact that there are 4 Elizabeths among us, and a 5th one had birthday. The Oldies like to celebrate such things and quite a few of them are excellent bakers. No guys were involved today, so we didn't have champagne, but it was fun nonetheless.
Coming home I translated a bit (almost 2 pages), then I cobbled together a quick lunch (roast sausages and a salad; Mum made mashed potatoes, and we had leftover apple soup), and then it was almost time to go to the sewing group again.
I've finished the XL Elves (pictures tomorrow, or so I hope) and started on the teddy bears. They need palms and soles and the inside of their ears sewn on before I'd put them together. I chose to sew them by hand; others made lots and lots of basically identical teddies with the sewing machine - I dare to say that mine will be magnitudes cuter. But it will be a lot of work, as always.
Then one of the colleagues gave me this pattern:
She said she'd printed it out specifically for me. So I took some felt home with me so that I can make Rudolph... assuming I can. It will be delicate work, too, but an interesting challenge.
Oh, and BTW, the chocolate-peanut cookies were a hit. Here is the recipe in English, in case
meathiel isn't the only one interested.Ingredients:
120 grams of white flour
50 grams of sugar
100 grams of peanuts, roast, chopped
100 grams of dark chocolate, chopped
50 grams of peanut butter
100 grams of butter or margarine
1 egg
1 pinch of baking powder
chocolate icing to decorate it afterwards
How to make it?
- Mix flour, sugar, peanuts, chocolate and baking powder in a dish.
- Melt butter and peanut butter in a small pot and allow it to cool a little.
- Add egg, butter and peanut butter to the dry ingredients; stir it with a wooden spoon.
- Form little balls of the size of a small walnut and set them onto the baking tin (buttered or lined with baking paper). Leave enough room between cookies to expand.
- Bake it in a pre-heated oven (180°C, Gas: 2) for 20 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the tin for a few minutes.
- Melt chocolate icing and drop half a teaspoon full on top of every cookie.
It's really easy to make; it takes about 35-40 minutes altogether, including preparations, and you'll have about 20-25 cookies, depending on the size you make them.
