Early morning fog ....
3rd
December 2016 (Saturday)
.... 09.45 The sun is beginning to
break up thick fog we woke up to this morning.... hopefully we might end up
with a nice day. It is a ‘nice day’ as
it is.... cloudy with hardly any wind .... though, when I was
down on the beach
earlier I did ‘notice’ that the breeze is from the North and was cold on the
hands.
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| Earlsferry High Street. |
I need to use ‘warm’ butter to make
shortbread. This will be my second
attempt at shortbread: I remember ‘warming’
up a lump of butter in the microwave a few of years ago, and ending up with a
bowl of oil. The butter that I’m going
to use today has not been in the fridge;
that will have to be warm enough.
We
have the ‘Colinsburgh’ Coffee Morning at Kinneuchar this morning; I’ll go up to that. Jimmy doesn’t ‘do’ the Kilconquhar ‘Coffee
Mornings’.
21.30 I enjoyed the ‘Colinsburgh’ Coffee Morning
(in Kilconquhar Church), and, by the time I got back to Ivy the sun had burnt
back the fog: so I grabbed the camera
and went down to the beach. With there
being hardly any wind to bring ‘chill factor’ into the equation, we were
enjoying, late autumn, warm, sunshine;
and there were people on the beach making the most of it. With the tide being ‘out’, I was able to get
way down among the rocks, where I enjoy myself best. I
got back up to Ivy in time to get the
kettle on so that Jimmy could have an early afternoon cuppa.
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| Sunny and warm by 11.00 |
There
may only be three ingredients that go into making shortbread, but getting the
three of them mixed into some kind o’ workable lump takes a bit of effort. Once you have that ‘lump’ you’re ‘home and
dry’. I think that my oven was set
slightly high because the end result seems a little ‘overdone: that said, Jimmy and I will be eating the
shortbread; not “Blob” and his pals. Even
the ‘round’ that I made via the mould looks good. The
hardest bit when using a mould is
getting the mixture from the mould onto the baking tray: it took a few good thumps to release it. I’ll make another
practice batch tomorrow.
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| Shortbread baking practice round. |
Tomorrow? Tomorrow is forecast to be another ‘quiet’
day, as far as the weather goes, though it will be cold first thing. The ‘kirk’ is at Kinneuchar tomorrow; it all depends on how I feel in the morning
as to whether I go or not. When I got
out of bed this morning I felt sluggish, but once I’d showered etc I was fired
up and ready for the beach. It might
be the same tomorrow morning.
Photographs
: Top – Foggy Earlsferry High Street, Middle
– three hours later it was sunny and warm, and Bottom – The ‘round’ of
shortbread made from the mould. I
should have marked it into four ‘farls’, a ‘farl’ being one quarter of a round.
