Christmas is an odd mix of chaos and peacefulness – I like a little of each.
We’re adding to the Christmas chaos by building a gingerbread house, complete with moose, swans in a pond, a bird house, a smarties path, and a couple of dinosaurs (because who could resist using dinosaur cookie cutters?)
After cementing the house together with caramelized sugar, we discovered the sugar does something most strange when water is added to the hot sugar.
Stuck to the wooden spoon, it pulled out of the pan in a single entity, stretching and morphing into something oddly seaweed-like, dark and crystalline but still malleable. It was formed into a couple of sea creatures, and what looked most like a dead duck. The art of this will need a little work. Discovery and failure – important parts of Christmas.
Hope yours is merry,
Maureen
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