Cookies, Etc.

[MitchW]

Batch of big and crispy oatmeal cookies.  And a banana/walnut/raisin bread, since I turned on the oven.

[bloviatrix]

I made a batch of biscotti yesterday. They're so easy to make and simply delicious. Why don't I make them more frequently?

[MitchW]

9 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I made a batch of biscotti yesterday. They're so easy to make and simply delicious. Why don't I make them more frequently?

The same reason I don’t make cookies all the time…I’d just eat them!

[bloviatrix]

Hamenstaschen baking has commenced. The boy has a hockey tournament this weekend so I'm bringing about 300 to feed the team, parents, coaches, etc. I'm making three base doughs - my mom's standard, gingerbread, and chocolate. Fillings will be prune and apricot lekvar, halvah, nougat, speculoos. Simon Fischer no longer makes apricot lekvar so in a first, I will make it from scratch.

Usually the boy only helps with fabrication. In a first, he made the gingerbread dough under my direction. Photos will follow.

[bloviatrix]

Gingerbread dough.

 

[Sneakeater]

OK, how stupid is it that it's much easier (i.e., it's possible) to find hamentaschen in my new German neighborhood than it was in previous not-German one?

I guess it makes sense in a way.

[bloviatrix]

Final dough has been made. Now working on my lekvar.

[Sneakeater]

Three hundred hamentaschen seems like A LOT.

[Anthony Bonner]

Is hockey Sabbath friendly?   I have an orthodox friend whose kid had to bail on club lacrosse because he was going to miss 80% of the games.

[bloviatrix]

3 hours ago, Anthony Bonner said:

Is hockey Sabbath friendly?   I have an orthodox friend whose kid had to bail on club lacrosse because he was going to miss 80% of the games.

You have to know the right Orthodox rabbi to ask - there are a lot of logistics to deal with and in this case it works because the hotel shares a parking lot with the rink. That said, the boy is moving to a shomer shabbat team next year because he missed more than half of the games this season.

[bloviatrix]

OG.

[StephanieL]

Because I happen to have not only a bottle of boiled cider but also a jug of spiced cider concentrate on hand, I made King Arthur's Apple Cider Snickerdoodles.  They're very good, at least the ones I tried right out of the oven.