It's Baketime!
Oct. 8th, 2005 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sue_n_juliaToday I was feeling up to baking -- I've only been wanting to bake for the last month or so. So today, I said to hell with cleaning, I'm baking. Of course that still required cleaning up the kitchen because it is so tiny, but I did it. Then I made shortbread and chocolate cookies. While that's not good for our waistlines, it was certainly good for my spirits.
Julia also got me a new baking pan today. It's got six shallow escallops so it can be used for baking or candy-making. It worked wonderfully for the shortbread!
I also discovered something wonderful! One of our local groceries sells caster's sugar. Caster's sugar is finely ground sugar, like confectioner's sugar, but without the cornstarch. So I'm going to try to make sugar plate with it and see how it goes. I've tried cheating with confectioner's sugar, but it starts hardening too fast (and requires a lot more liquid than the recipe suggests). Then it never gets that porcelain-like finish it should have.
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Julia also got me a new baking pan today. It's got six shallow escallops so it can be used for baking or candy-making. It worked wonderfully for the shortbread!
I also discovered something wonderful! One of our local groceries sells caster's sugar. Caster's sugar is finely ground sugar, like confectioner's sugar, but without the cornstarch. So I'm going to try to make sugar plate with it and see how it goes. I've tried cheating with confectioner's sugar, but it starts hardening too fast (and requires a lot more liquid than the recipe suggests). Then it never gets that porcelain-like finish it should have.
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