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What have you done? I've made two christmas cakes this weekend, one light, one dark. The dark one just came out of the oven having gone in at about 9:30 this morning. It smells gorgeous. However the whole delayed gratification thing is an arse.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 1 December 2002 18:20 (twenty-two years ago) link

I knew this was an Ed thread before I even opened it. Wow, does the flat ever smell good.

BTW, Ed we are held up at the Kingdom of the Dirt Queen cause she STILL has not shown up to give me my freaking deposit back. Grrrrr.

On the baking front, Ed keeps leaving small bowls of rat turds soaking in water and telling us that we are going to learn to love fruitcake. Uh, no, I don't think so. Brandy, brandy, brandy says Suzy. Oh, soaking in brandy, I didn't know that or I would have drank it!!!

― kate, Sunday, 1 December 2002 18:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ed = the spiff cook. Can I hire you?

At some point I might actually try to make cookies. Maybe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 December 2002 19:02 (twenty-two years ago) link

OK, but you have to sign a disclaimer saying that you have no pre existing heart or artery problems.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 1 December 2002 19:08 (twenty-two years ago) link

Of course I don't. Yet. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 December 2002 19:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am in the process of Baking my Famous Original Aunt Oliver's Crusted Balls of Unsatisfied Congealed Egg Lard Tobacco Salami Wafer Logs

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 1 December 2002 23:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jerry the Nipper is an ace cook. My mince pies are not quite happening yet. But they will, by god.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:44 (twenty-two years ago) link

They better be, by gum, or I'm not visiting next weekend. I also made Christmas cake yesterday. And went on to construct banana bread. The boy was most impressed and awed by the cake-baking process.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:26 (twenty-two years ago) link

What is this Christmas cake of which you speak -- fruitcake?

As for commercial US fruitcake, stores are now full of crates of the things. Does anyone actually eat these, or are they simply given as passive-aggressive Christmas presents?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-two years ago) link

Due to being too cheap to give proper presents this year, I was thinking of making some sort of Xmas biscuit for general distribution. Anyone have any easy recipes for such a thing?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-two years ago) link

It was fruitcake but UK style (i.e. some cake between the fruit) rather than US style (100% pure fruit?)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

Archel, make nice gingerbread - the kind you build houses of, not the squidgy Grasmere kind (although that's great too and keeps well). You can make in shapes (Father Christmasses/reindeer?) and decorate wif icing and sparkly things.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-two years ago) link

Good idea! Do you know a secret extra grebt recipe or shall I repair to the cookery books?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:38 (twenty-two years ago) link

IKEA does flat pack gingerbread houses also roll out swedish gingerbread dough.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:40 (twenty-two years ago) link

we are still debating on the flat pack gingerbread house, or whether (armed with my grrrrrany's recipe) the engineering student and the former architecture student can actually design and build their own GINGERBREAD DREAM HOUSE. call Grand Designs now!!! can the gingerbread hold the weight of the icing sugar roof and still maintain structural integrity what with all the crushed boiled sweets stained glass windows?!?!?!?

― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-two years ago) link

Blimey. I think I'll stick to snowmen.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have to make butterscotch cookies and peanut butter milk chocolate cookies soon. Argh the curse of being the best cookie baker in NYC.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:26 (twenty-two years ago) link

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