{"id":388,"date":"2010-06-01T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T10:19:52","slug":"busy-baking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Busy Baking"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the first non-bank-holiday day of my week off and I’ve been editing this month’s KnitCast<\/a> and doing some baking.<\/p>\n

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Cookies on baking paper<\/p><\/div>\n

For years I yearned of making large, moist, chewy\u00c2\u00a0 chocolate chip cookies.They’re easy to find in stores etc. but I wanted to make them at home. A friend of mine went to work in the United States in the early nineties and sent me home a cookie recipe book but of course it was all in American measurements and ingredients. So I was left with questions\u00c2\u00a0 like – how much does a stick of butter weigh? I’m still not entirely sure what shortening is, but whatever it is,\u00c2\u00a0 you can’t get it here.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember having mixed results whenever I tried to bake cookies and then moved onto cakes and muffins which were far more successful.<\/p>\n

Last year I decided to bake cookies again and when I googled Chocolate Chip Cookies this recipe<\/a> came up first in the list. It’s by Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall<\/a> and, my dodgey oven aside, it’s foolproof. I’ve had great success with this recipe and it has relatively few ingredients. Nowadays I just use salted butter and thus you don’t need the pinch of salt. Hugh has you use the best chocolate you find and to roughly chop it but I do use chocolate chips and other ingredients. I usually slightly increase the vanilla essence either by accident, slopping too much in the bowl,\u00c2\u00a0 or design. I also use my electric mixer to make the cookie dough so it’s even simpler.<\/p>\n

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Cookie closeup<\/p><\/div>\n

For today’s batch I used chocolate chips and chopped up some crystallised ginger that I had too. I didn’t weigh the ginger but you can put anything in these cookies. I imagine they’d be good with sultanas or cherries and coconut too.<\/p>\n

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Two of the cookies mysteriously vanished...<\/p><\/div>\n

I tried to take some better photos of the Soxie sock today because yesterday’s blurry indoor pic didn’t do justice to the colours in them at all. Although I had to wait for a while because it was raining heavily.<\/p>\n

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Soxie outside<\/p><\/div>\n

And some closeups of sections of the sock<\/p>\n

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Soxie closeup 1<\/p><\/div>\n

I think this shot of the heel shows the colours at their best<\/p>\n

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Soxie heel<\/p><\/div>\n

The colours are just so wild and glorious. I love them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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