Patrick's day to golf. My day to get caught up on laundry. AND work on some cooking. I needed to get the tomato sauce done and put in bags to freeze. My next thing was to make our Chocolate Chip Date Cake.
Okay, things started to go okay. I did the recipe as it was written down - only because it's been a while since I made it. One of mom Wiltzius' recipe. Well.............................
Something went WRONG. It all sank into the cake! I couldn't believe it. The taste was there, but the topping ended up in the middle to the bottom of the cake. I waited for Patrick to get home and see if it would have to be remade. - Of course it would!
Remade and better. Except it's dry......UGH!! I thought it was under cooked and Patrick took it out. Come to find out, it's a little on the dry side. I like it more moist. So does Patrick. I had the piece with ice cream and that helped. lol
Okay, that didn't work. Next I started working on a new recipe called Pain aux Raisins. Okay, I should have waited till tomorrow. But I decided to forge ahead. i worked on the Basic Brioche Dough. Yep, worked on it. An hour later, I figured it was where it needed to be. Now it's in the fridge and should be fine tomorrow. I couldn't believe my machine was getting HOT with the hook attachment. I added a little flour as I was getting closer to being done. It said to take 15 mins and I ended up with about 45 mins. Never fails. I just hope after all that, that it comes out good. Patrick is picking up raisins and an orange. He wants the orange taste in it. Tomorrow I will do the pastry cream and then work on shaping it.
After finally giving up on cooking, I sat down to work on my laundry folding. Then I sat down to work on my embroidery.
I finished one of 2 flowers that needed to be done.
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