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Busy... baking
2 Feb 2013 06:16 pmI've been quite busy so far this weekend. Some Fridays I just want to come home and flop - others I have an urge to be productive! This was one of the latter.
So - I did the trolley shopping on the way home from work, put on a load of washing and drying whilst I put it away, mixed up dark fruit loaves whilst dinner was in the oven, and put them into the warm oven after dinner. Then, whilst they were in the oven I produced the prayer leaflets for church.
All this before S2C got up at 8pm to get ready for work! When he went out I changed our bedding, emptied the washer/dryer and put a load more in on timer so that it would be ready to sort and hang things to dry at breakfast time... and finally wrote 400 words of the next chapter of The Valinor Trail.
I rather think all the previous activities were a form of procrastination - it is surprising what you can fill your time with when you should be organising the ideas into sentences and paragraphs!
Actually I really did need to bake - we are having a Mariners' Service at church next week...( Read more... )
Anyway - whilst others will make sandwiches, cook chicken drumsticks, and so on, I will make fruit loaves and gingerbread, possibly a cherry & banana cake too. The best thing about the particular fruit loaves, and gingerbread, is that they will improve in the cake-tins until next weekend - so I can bake now, whilst I'm in the mood.
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chaotic_binky and I were discussing cakes, and bread & butter pudding, not to mention bread pudding which is a totally different thing, in another place - and it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to post the fruitloaf and gingerbread recipes here. Both are very easy and pretty much fool proof - and very tasty.
So I have put the recipes ( Under this cut... )
It is, of course, very easy to half that second recipe and just make a normal sized cake!
Also - depending on what is in the store cupboard, it has been made with all syrup, half syrup & half treacle, all treacle instead of the syrup, and even about 2/3 syrup to 1/3 honey when I had no treacle to pad the remains of the syrup up! All taste good, just a little different each time.
You can see that the two have a common root, in the method used to make them. The other thing you will notice is that one recipe is older than the other - one is in ounces and the other in grams - I have scales that weigh in both, and can think pretty well in either, so I don't bother converting recipes, just use whatever it's in!
Anyone interested in the difference between bread and butter pudding and bread pudding - or their mysterious, richer, relative the Wet Nelly - just say - and I might post about those too.
Actually, I will probably post pictures of the baking tomorrow, too.
So - I did the trolley shopping on the way home from work, put on a load of washing and drying whilst I put it away, mixed up dark fruit loaves whilst dinner was in the oven, and put them into the warm oven after dinner. Then, whilst they were in the oven I produced the prayer leaflets for church.
All this before S2C got up at 8pm to get ready for work! When he went out I changed our bedding, emptied the washer/dryer and put a load more in on timer so that it would be ready to sort and hang things to dry at breakfast time... and finally wrote 400 words of the next chapter of The Valinor Trail.
I rather think all the previous activities were a form of procrastination - it is surprising what you can fill your time with when you should be organising the ideas into sentences and paragraphs!
Actually I really did need to bake - we are having a Mariners' Service at church next week...( Read more... )
Anyway - whilst others will make sandwiches, cook chicken drumsticks, and so on, I will make fruit loaves and gingerbread, possibly a cherry & banana cake too. The best thing about the particular fruit loaves, and gingerbread, is that they will improve in the cake-tins until next weekend - so I can bake now, whilst I'm in the mood.
chaotic_binky and I were discussing cakes, and bread & butter pudding, not to mention bread pudding which is a totally different thing, in another place - and it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to post the fruitloaf and gingerbread recipes here. Both are very easy and pretty much fool proof - and very tasty.So I have put the recipes ( Under this cut... )
It is, of course, very easy to half that second recipe and just make a normal sized cake!
Also - depending on what is in the store cupboard, it has been made with all syrup, half syrup & half treacle, all treacle instead of the syrup, and even about 2/3 syrup to 1/3 honey when I had no treacle to pad the remains of the syrup up! All taste good, just a little different each time.
You can see that the two have a common root, in the method used to make them. The other thing you will notice is that one recipe is older than the other - one is in ounces and the other in grams - I have scales that weigh in both, and can think pretty well in either, so I don't bother converting recipes, just use whatever it's in!
Anyone interested in the difference between bread and butter pudding and bread pudding - or their mysterious, richer, relative the Wet Nelly - just say - and I might post about those too.
Actually, I will probably post pictures of the baking tomorrow, too.
