Why I Don’t Bake!!!!

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Why I Don’t Bake!!!!

Disclaimer: Dolly, best you don’t view this one.

Well, it all started when I mistakenly bought non-gluten shortbread flour rather than corn flower at the local market that caters to expats. Since I’d thrown the receipt away and since I suddenly had a free day, thanks to the fact that the animals had not awakened me for their feeding in time to make the event I was supposed to go to, I decided to follow what looked like an “easy” recipe.

Wrong!!!  Four hours and two old movies* later, here is the final result. Oh, and if you were going to comment that they probably taste better than they look, WRONG. They taste terrible, partially due to the fact that I just noticed while taking these photos that the shortbread mix was a month out of date when I bought it. Or perhaps it is supposed to taste stale.  I just know that trying to get shortbread cookies blended and moist enough and rolled out without crumbling is IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!  And the glaze is another story all together.  All-in-all, I’ll buy my Little Schoolboy cookies at the store after this, never mind their very inflated price here. Click on the first photo if you are a glutton for punishment and want to see captions and enlarged views of my cooking disaster.

 

The mix.
The Glaze
After glaze
Four hours later, the result.
Best of the worst
Worst of the worse
More worst of the worst
And no, they did not taste better than they looked!!!

*To encourage myself to spend more time in the kitchen, I put an old TV with a VHS player in it in the kitchen and I’m watching my extensive collection of VHS movies before disposing of them. Any of you out there with a VHS player who want them, they are yours for the postage..or for the picking up.

 

 

 

16 thoughts on “Why I Don’t Bake!!!!”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      It is a glaze.. not entirely successful. Oscar had his English lesson here today and when I offered him a cookie, he turned it down. Ha! This is a kid who really likes to eat. I wouldn’t recommend that shortbread mix to anyone. I added an egg, oil and water. It didn’t help it.
      Actually, they are better today after being in the fridge overnight. The ones covered in chocolate are not horrible and the ones only half covered fare better when covered with raspberry jam. I am determined to salvage some honor in all of this. No word from Dolly from koolkosherkitchen. I think she obeyed my warning that perhaps she shouldn’t read this.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Yes, I’ve heard that. I never even check the weather.. thus I’m often caught without an umbrella! So, I can’t be depended on to take it into account when baking. A perfect excuse not to do so. I even equivocate about baking from mixes. A glitch in my personality.

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      1. slmret's avatarslmret

        I couldn’t even find an umbrella last night to take along. And it’s going to rain on Thanksgiving day! I guess I’ll have to wear my hoodie rain jacket! Am on the way as soon as I pack the car!

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          1. slmret's avatarslmret

            The rain this past week was really a godsend to SoCal! On Monday, there was a brushfire that began just a dusk, when they can’t fight it except by footmen. The last time a fire started in this area it took out 500 homes in Santa Barbara! This time there were Santa Ana winds that blew hard overnight. And on Tuesday evening it began to rain — there ended up both rain and snow on the ground that night — stopped the fire, which is now just in mop-up stage! Will post more about it when I have a chance later in the week!

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