Archive for May, 2007
Saffron buns
Very rich, somewhere between a cake and a bread.
I’ve had them come out much more yellow than that before, though I thought I used about the same amount of saffron, hmm. Look at those darker bits where the strands are, though! And when I was at the stage where I’d mixed together egg, butter [...]
Waste Not Want Not
I have two sets of five 8-inch 2.5mm bamboo double-pointed needles that I’m not using at all at the moment. One of them I, erm, bought accidently in Germany as I didn’t understand what the guy in the shop was saying. Anyway, I’d already stopped using them when I got a set of 6-inch (well, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Chocolate Crunchies
Or, the store cupboard chocolate fix. These are none of your school fete stuff of cheap milk chocolate, but satisfyingly dark and fudgy.
2oz/50g butter
2tbsp golden syrup
2oz/50g icing sugar
3tbsp cocoa (I like heaped tablespoons for a bitter edge)
3oz/75g cornflakes
Melt the butter, syrup, icing sugar and cocoa together over a low heat. Remove from the heat and [...]
Sizing of Tiny Tulips
I did mean to include this information in the first place, but in my eagerness to get the pattern up I forgot, sorry!
First off, I knitted them on 2.5mm needles (16cm Clover bamboo, I luuurve them) at 8 stitches to the inch. The “tiny” is particularly appropriate as my feet are only a UK [...]
Tiny Tulips sock pattern
I know it’s a horrendously cutesy name, but then they’re horrendously cutesy socks. I hope the pattern all makes sense as it’s my first attempt at writing one, but I think it should do. These are by far my best-fitting and most comfortable pair of socks yet, I love them! They’re in Regia cotton, which [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 20 so far )Ask and ye shall receive
From the clearing out of my grandparents’ house since my grandad died, one yarn swift: (Apologies for the quality of these photos, they were taken at my mum’s – so no choice in the backgrounds – and in very artificial light, which my camera really doesn’t like.)
At least we assume that’s what it is, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Seed cake recipe and sock yarn stash
I always wanted to try seed cake as it was mentioned in so many old novels I read, but I didn’t even really have any clue what it was until last year sometime. After finally trying it, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, both the flavour (liquorice-y) and the texture of the [...]
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