And lo, the egg has turned into a pirate ship.
Well, more of a pirate coracle.
Well, the Honey Jumbles were a fail. Or rather, a learning opportunity.
Several things added up to a less than brilliant biscuit:
- The bicarbonate of soda was old. I used some from a big box, and I think it had lost its leavening properties.
- When the recipe said to “roll each quarter of the dough into a sausage 1 cm thick”, my measurement must have been out. Very big Honey Jumbles! Which might have lead to the next problem…
- I slightly underbaked the biscuits. They are tricky - over bake them, and they become too hard, but they are very soft straight out of the oven, and firm up quite a lot overnight. Another two minutes or so next time.
- The icing was slightly too thick for easy spreading, and I misjudged the strength of the new food colouring, leading to a very unappealing colour on half the biscuits! “Rose Pink” was the desired colour - not the unfortunate “Antacid Medicine Pink” I ended tinting!
In the words of Cherish from “Bake Off:The Professionals”
“Cha la la la, I did not enjoy eating this at alllll…”
But never mind. I’m going to try again. Determined to conquer the #HoneyJumbles !
#Baking #cooking #BakingFail #biscuits #GreatBritishBakeOff #BakeOffTheProfessionals
So while I was watching #BakeOffTheProfessionals , partner was seeing if my (mostly unused, 7 or so year old) laptop could be made into a dual boot machine (windows/linux)...in the end, we have another #Linux box.
I don't mind, everything was completely backed up before the experiment, and this was always a possibility. Next year we'll look at maybe buying a cheap #Windows laptop if we find we really need one.
Lady Mandona
Andrew Stevenson
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