December 2020 posts

Saturday, 26 December 2020
What to do on Boxing Day
summary: We have snow!! It's Boxing Day; St. Stephen's Day; warm up by helping to feed/clothe everyone;  

Forget Boxing Day Sales! Let's emulate Good King Wenceslas, and get back to the true origins of Boxing Day.

engraving by George Dalziel (1815-1902) and Edward Dalziel (1817–1905), from “Christmas Carols, New and Old” (1879) by Henry Ramsden Bramley

 

Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Gathering winter fuel  [...]

"Bring me flesh and bring me wine
Bring me pine logs hither.
Thou and I shall see him dine
When we bear them thither."

Thursday, 24 December 2020
Wild Times with Lussekatter (BBB December 2020)
summary: recipe for wild Lucia Buns based on Swedish JG's mother's recipe; difficulties with enriched dough – so what else is new? still staying at home where there are an unbelievable number of rabbit holes; I'm posting late again! Really late... one of these days I may learn to plan ahead; ...maybe; information about Bread Baking Babes;

Bringing in the Boar's Head [Illustrated London News] lithograph by John Gilbert (1817-1897)

 

Saturday, 19 December 2020
Really Really White Bread
summary: Really White Bread, following the recipe for White Bread with Poolish in "Flour Water Salt Yeast" by Ken Forkish – to the letter; wow, that's slack dough; hazards when halving the recipe; using instant yeast for the first time; I am a slow learner;

Thursday, 17 December 2020
...it's about time
summary: other BBBabes have managed their time...; what I’ve been doing instead of making Lussekatter; a promise to make them soon; information about Bread Baking Babes;

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Solo Flying On Annual Cake Day
summary: annual Cake Day; revised vinarterta recipe to add weights; staying at home again; Amaretto to the rescue; What? No Scrabble??

 

The two images above are in the public domain in UK , Canada and the USA, as well as other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or fewer.  For more information, please see wikimedia commons Bringing in the Boar's Head and Good King Wenceslas