I was all ready to leave and did my last "bag check" and realised that my bottoms still had the labels and hygiene sticker on them- the labels came off no problem, buy the hygiene sticker was a pain, and left loads of sticky residue on the inside of my bottoms.
So, Swimming postponed until tomorrow, as combination swimming and hoo-ha waxing doesn't sound like an ideal start to a Tuesday. Or any day, If I'm being honest.
I've put them in the wash so am hoping for the best- and I got a new pair in Debenhams for £4 this morning just in case they need a few washes.
So either way, I'm going swimming tomorrow and Thursday (Maybe even friday).
Who knew swimming would be so stressful- and I haven't even made it to the pool yet!
I picked up the biscuit ingredients from tesco in town too- so I did get a bit of a walk out of it- and a flapjack! woop! I wore my denim shorts out today- which was perhaps a little premature as although it's really sunny, it's also quite windy.
I might put them away for a few more weeks yet!
Then I came back and made biscuits for The arrival of Traff's parents. This is the recipe I used- it says it makes 20 quite large biscuits and they're not far wrong...
Whilst the biscuits were cooling I did some more work on my crochet projects. just to make myself feel even more accomplished. Short wearing- buscuit baking- crochet making excellence. If you ignore the slightly burnt edges (I have some suspicions about the reliablity of the thermostat in our oven..)
Obviously, in the interest of quality control I had to eat the burnt ones before moving on to the icing stage of this project.
The end product: 1 large jar of cookies!
- Basic biscuit
- 125g softened butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- pinch salt
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 cup self raising flour
- 1 egg
- splash of milk
Directions
Preparation:10min › Cook:8min › Extra time:2min › Ready in:20min
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
- Mix the butter and sugar until you get a soft creamy mixture.
- Add the salt and mix; add the egg and mix.
- Add the flour 1/2 cup at a time, and mix with each addition.
- Add splash of milk if needed and mix.
- Knead the dough until it is not messy and is supple, then roll it out until about 5mm or so thick. The thickness doesn't really matter - 10mm thick if you want - the biscuit will expand a lot.
- Cut using a cookie cutter shape to suit yourself.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes – for a lesser time for a nice soft biscuit, longer time for a harder biscuit - just keep an eye on them.
- For a sweet biscuit, add a tablespoon of hundreds and thousands to the mix.
- You could also add: cinnamon or nutmeg or Pureblends Sweetspice or ginger or allspice or star anise or whatever you want in the way of spices.
- Also try adding peanut butter or almonds.
- Just prior to cooking, sprinkle some coarse sugar on top, and they will end up like "Nice" biscuits.
Changes and Variations
I made the normal mix with vanilla essence in- they're the flower shaped ones.
Then I added mixed spice to the dough- those are the heart shaped ones.
I wanted to make a 3rd variation to use my xmas hippo cookie cutter (He came in a box of plastic christmas cookie cutters I bought from notcuts for the brownies to use to make xmas tree decorations- they kept asking how a hippo is festive, and he was universally rejected. there were no hippo shaped salt dough xmas tree decorations) but we didn't have anything else that I could add. Expect some pan dan extract, but I'm really not sure about pan dan and mixed spice!
After all my cooking I played the violin for the first time in forever- Inspired by listening to pentangle- and I found the sheet music for matty groves!
In the evening, Emma and I are going to watch the boys play football. I haven't seen Emma for ages so it'll be nice to catch up- I've also never met Traff's football team mates before.
:D
Have now!
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