Baking: Update Two!
May. 23rd, 2007 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Chocolate chip cookies are done! So is packing, save for the toiletries we need tonight and in the morning. YAY~~! Due to time crunch, scones ain't happening for this Fanime, but this is a small imperfection in the face of things.
I... really like baking. I like cooking in general, and wish I had more time to devote to it. I also wish I had more people to inflict it upon. Cookies are a good case-in-point for this: I like making them, but I don't like the fact that I have to eat all of them. Taking them in to our offices only goes so far. I have all these wonderful cookbooks and magazines, and I don't feel I use them often enough. I can happily spend hours reading about the different effects different types of fats and flours have on baking, and how room and oven temperature variations affect starters and rising and such. Among my current covets (being in a baking mood at the moment) are Rose Levy Berenbaum's three "Bible" books. I really should've gotten The Bread Bible when I saw it a few years back used for fifteen dollars, but hindsight is ever perfect. And I have a deal with myself that I can't buy new cookbooks unless I get rid of some of the old. As soon as I copy my beloved Irish Soda Bread recipe out of one I never use for anything else, though, I think I can get rid of two.... *contemplates*
I... really like baking. I like cooking in general, and wish I had more time to devote to it. I also wish I had more people to inflict it upon. Cookies are a good case-in-point for this: I like making them, but I don't like the fact that I have to eat all of them. Taking them in to our offices only goes so far. I have all these wonderful cookbooks and magazines, and I don't feel I use them often enough. I can happily spend hours reading about the different effects different types of fats and flours have on baking, and how room and oven temperature variations affect starters and rising and such. Among my current covets (being in a baking mood at the moment) are Rose Levy Berenbaum's three "Bible" books. I really should've gotten The Bread Bible when I saw it a few years back used for fifteen dollars, but hindsight is ever perfect. And I have a deal with myself that I can't buy new cookbooks unless I get rid of some of the old. As soon as I copy my beloved Irish Soda Bread recipe out of one I never use for anything else, though, I think I can get rid of two.... *contemplates*
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c/c cookies. . .
Date: 2007-05-24 03:58 pm (UTC)