[Sca-cooks] Secret Life of Christmas

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Finally saw the show Friday night.  My first
> actual screen credit!  ::dies::

What!!??!!??!!??  No!No!No!No!  You are too 
young too die!!!  [Splashes water on Selene's
face.  Waves Hartshorn under her nose.]
[Commands] You are not dying on me now! Live!

> Aren't they fabboo?  I'm going to use the
> Annunciation one for the 
> Barony of Angels yule celebration.  But
> probably won't use the lebkuchen 
> recipe that we used on-air.  It takes a mold
> well but OW it is hard like 
> dwarf bread!  

I don't know which recipe you used or how long
you baked them.  Lebkuchen is supposed to be
crispy, but not rock-like.  But then again,
perhaps your recipe is like springerle, which
comes out of the oven hard as rocks and is
supposed to age a month to soften them to an
edible form.  I remember as a child making
lebkuchen Christmas tree ornaments that were
supposed to be hard to withstand the abuse it
took hanging from a tree branch.

Unfortunately, the more fats or shortenings you
use in a cookie, the more likely it is that it
won't keep the impression during baking.  Soft
but amorphous or hard and sculpted.  Your choice
with some cookies.

> Yes, you can carve them yourself
> but as I found out the 
> hard way, you really need to carve DEEPLY into
> the wood to make a good 
> impression on the cookie dough.  We ordered
> from House On The Hill.  

I got most of mine off of e-Bay and paid a lot
less that House charges.  Of course, I had to
wait for some of the designs to appear before
I could buy them.  So, if you need them _now_,
House is better, in that respect.

Huette

=====
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they 
shall never cease to be amused.


		
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