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Super Slytherin Buddy | | ⅓ She-Snake Trio | | a normal girl with normal knees
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Originally Posted by The1HBIC
What!?
Evelyn wanted Jake to come work with them? Did she hear her right? She had to be just messing with the boy. There was no way Evelyn could want to work with Jake. She looked over to Evelyn and whispered to her. "You don't really want him to work with us do you?" Not that she really minded if he did. Him working with them could totally be a way for her to annoy Lawson.
Snorting, Evelyn smiled and shook her head 'no'. Of course she didn't want Mr. Stutters to be working with them, but it would be funny if he did.
Finishing with chopping the carrot, Evelyn scooted the little pile into one little group and placed the knife down, just in time to hear the Professor speak up. Get their ingredients. Well, that was just a big ol' major problem for her now wasn't it.
Sighing, she pulled the small pink taffy like candy out from her pocket and held it in her hand. She brought two just in case but... really, she didn't even know how to start making a taffy.
Waiting. Yes, she would wait for the Professor to come over here. And she wasn't about to let him skip on helping her either. Mwaha!
Browncoat l Extra Syrup l Kita's Strong Confident Other Half l Lemon Patch
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Originally Posted by aussiegirl
Lawson moved onto the next workstation and his lips twitched ever so slightly as he watched Arya's attempt. He cleared his throat and moved a little closer to her. "Now Arya, that's cheating" he said with a small chuckle. "I assure you that if you hold your hand like I showed you, you will not cut your fingers off. And besides you have to keep stopping when you need to pull the fork out and move it down the vegetable."
He looked around at the rest of the students, "You are all doing a great job. Now I don't think I need to show you how to mix ingredients together so I want you all to take out your recipes now and we shall get started with cooking. You will find everything you need in the pantry at the back of the room and the refrigerators. I'm just going to help Arya out here a little more but if you need me then just yell out to me."
She was sloooowly working on cutting another uneven slice off the carrot when she heard someone clearing their throat. Arya looked up just in time to hear Sir Lawson's comment about her 'cheating', and spared him a small smirk. "'s not cheating..."She didn't see it as cheating....more like playing it safe.
Sitting up straight, she glanced from her uneven slices to Lawson musing over his words. "I don't mind stopping, besides I've grown accustomed to having five fingers on each hand..." She released the fork and held up her left hand and looked at it admiringly, "It would be a shame to lose one over cutting carrots." Even though she did love carrots.
And what did he know? She had already cut six beautifully uneven pieces from the orange vegetable and she was proud of them. This was the first time she had used a knife.
Hmm.....but would it really kill her to try it his way. He wouldn't allow her to do something that would harm her, would he? Nah.
Listening to him speak to the rest of the class, she sighed internally. Now everyone else got to work on thier recipes while she was stuck with the carrots. Arya picked up a small piece of carrot she had cut off and rolled it around in her hand. "Can you show me how to cut it again?"
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Listening to Arya's reasoning he could understand why she would be hesitant to to try this. The knives were super sharp.
"You know I wouldn't let anything happen to you." And he wouldn't but then again accidents do happen and he could not be everywhere at once. Best not let the students know that though otherwise they wouldn't have any confidence at all.
Giving her a broad smile, Lawson gently took the knife out of her hand and picked up another carrot.
"Right place your fingers on the carrot and then tuck them back out of the way. Place the flat part of the blade against your knuckles, they will act as a kind of shield for your fingers. Then slowly bring the knife down onto your carrot."
He looked up at Arya to make sure that he was following what he was doing and then without taking his eyes off her he continued to slice the carrot. "Just move your fingers down the carrot as you slice." When he had finished, he held out the knife to her, handle first. "Now you try it."
As he stepped away to give her some room, Lawson looked around the room at the other students. "Evelyn, I will be with you in minute. For those of you who are planning on baking make sure to measure your ingredients precisely otherwise you will find that whatever your baking might not turn out properly."
Super Slytherin Buddy || ⅓ She-Snake Trio || 'I taste like chocolate and potatoes'
Chop, chop, chopchopchopchopchop.
Chopping celery was BORING!
Destiny was only halfway done when Lawson said they could start their own recipe. Pushing her chopped celery in a little pile off to the side, she carefully put the knife down next to the pile.
Pulling her book closer to herself, she quickly turned to the page she needed. She was definitely ready, since she had marked the page by folding the edge. She bent over the book and ran a finger over the list of ingredients. "Hey Evelyn! I'm making Kartoffelkloesse!"
SPOILER!!: The secret RECIPE!
Kartoffelkloesse (German Potato Dumplings)
Ingredients
* 1 1/2 lbs russet potatoes (about 2 large)
* 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
* 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (or more)
* 1/8 cup cornstarch (or potato starch, much preferred, if you can get it)
* 1 large egg
* 2 slices sourdough bread or white bread (good quality, not supermarket foam crap)
* 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
* 1 tablespoon corn oil or vegetable oil
Directions
- Trim crusts off bread and save them for another use.
- Cut bread into 1/2-inch cubes and fry in butter and oil mixture until golden brown, transfer to paper towel to dry.
- Cook scrubbed, unpeeled potatoes in large pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 45 minutes.
- Drain.
- Cool slightly.
- Peel.
- Cut potatoes into large pieces.
- Refrigerate until cold, about 30 minutes.
- Mash potatoes with fork or run through ricer into large bowl.
- Mix in salt and nutmeg.
- Add 1/2 cup flour and cornstarch.
- Using hands, knead mixture in bowl until smooth dough forms, adding more flour by tablespoonfuls if dough is sticky.
- Mix in egg.
- Form dough into balls, using 1/4 cupful for each.
- Insert bread cube into center of each dumpling; roll dumpling between palms to enclose bread cube completely and form smooth balls.
- Working in batches, cook dumplings in large pot of nearly boiling salted water 10-15 minutes (or until dumplings rise to top).
- Using slotted spoon, transfer dumplings to large bowl.
- Keep covered with a damp kitchen towel as remaining dumplings are cooked.
- You should place no more than 4-5 dumplings in your pot at any one time in order to prevent them from sticking together or touching during cooking, which will cause them to fall apart.
Now..she needed to find these ingredients.
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Last edited by Darling; 05-23-2010 at 08:10 AM.
Reason: 'cause..umm..Destiny wasn't chopping carrots.
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Originally Posted by SenoritaMaxie
"Could have been better, sir."
Gold was fine now, though. Which was exactly why she beamed at Professor Lawson, before letting him attend to the next student. Well, not attend. More like greet. How nice of him.
Cuuute.
Gold quickly sorted through the stuff, on her own workstation. There was much of the usual, and some stuff she didn't recognize. Where was Mr. T? She needed her Baker Extraordinaire.
She looked around the classroom, wondering if he was here. He had to be, he couldn't miss a club like that.
Or cooking, you know.
When he caught Gold looking around the room, he wondered if she was trying to find him so that she could work with him. She would want to work with him because he had amazing skills and she thought that he was wonderful.
And she was right, because he was amazing at this stuff. This was the kind of thing that he could do in his sleep if he wanted to.
Browncoat l Extra Syrup l Kita's Strong Confident Other Half l Lemon Patch
"I know." She said with a quick nod of her head, but he couldn't protect her from herself and that's what worried her.
Still, it couldn't kill her to try and cut the carrot properly. Injure her maybe, but not kill.
Handing over her knife, she leaned forward slightly and chewed on her bottom lip as she watched him show her how to position her fingers on the carrot. Her eyes never left his hands as he started to cut the carrot, watching to see how he moved it down the orange vegetable.
He made it look so easy. No fair.
Seriously, this is one of the reasons she liked magic, cause it could do things she didn't care to do like cleaning and cooking.
And then he handed the knife to her, she knew it was coming, still she was a little hesitant to take the knife. But take it she did, after staring at her partially cut carrot for a quick moment she put her hand on the vegatable the way Sir Lawson had shown her.
"Like this..." It was a question and statement rolled into one. She gave him a quick glance that said if 'I lose a finger I'm blaming you in my parents letter' and placed the knife on the carrot not to close to her fingers. Then she slooooowly began to cut the veggie. It was uneven cuts, and the whole move your hand down while you cut thing was proving more difficult than she thought, having to pause a couple of moments to repositon her hand, but she was cutting the carrot and NOT her fingers. That's all one can really ask for.
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Off in his own world, a slow jazz song was playing. Zachary had snuck into this club for the sole purpose of having a meal that wasn't prepared by house elves, or prepared with any magic ingredients. As far as his taste buds were concerned, he was a muggle.
Never far from him, his top hat sat up turned nearby. While chopping some carrots to his favorite tune he was humming, a few pieces were slipped into the hat nonchalantly.
Marcus looked at Gold and his expression was one of understanding, last term had been hard on a lot of the kids. "If you ever need to talk..."he left the rest unsaid, he knew she would understand what he was getting at.
Oh. This was the second professor that had offered her, some comfort. Gold smiled, a tiny smile, and nodded. "Thank you, professor." Then she somewhat slunk out of the spotlight, letting people answer and talk and talk some more, only shaking herself out of her thoughts when she realized they could finally whip something up.
She wanted to bake, of course. She LOVED baking. Was excellent at it, too. Cooking? She could manage, but only barely.
Speaking of baking, where was --
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When he caught Gold looking around the room, he wondered if she was trying to find him so that she could work with him. She would want to work with him because he had amazing skills and she thought that he was wonderful.
And she was right, because he was amazing at this stuff. This was the kind of thing that he could do in his sleep if he wanted to.
"Looking for me?" he asked as he joined her.
This would be fun.
TORINTORINTORIN!
"I can't pounce upon you, right now," Gold complained, with a pout, as she looked up at him. Because he was taller than her. Which was okay, because she thought her height was perfect. Like her hair, and name and -- and she needed to stop being vain. It was the one drawback she was always trying to discard, and never, ever succeeding.
"What d'you want to bake?"
Yep. Because she knew he would want to bake something. Baking. That was Mr. T's strength. Hers, too. "Does a cakeyy sound fun?" She had lots of suggestions, in that brain of hers. LOTS.
Super Slytherin Buddy | | ⅓ She-Snake Trio | | a normal girl with normal knees
Pffft. Making her wait!
Maybe she could play with the knife until he gets over here. Wait, no. Her uncle said that was a bad thing to do.
Placing the knife back down on the cutting board again, she shoved her hand in her pocket and pulled out...two more taffies! Wow, she thought she only brought two. Huh. Oh, that's right. She was saving one for later use.
Staring at them for a moment, the Slytherin closed her hand on them before looking up and staring at Lawson. Maybe she could try like...mind control on him. Mwhaha!
And when that didn't work, she started to think of what was put into a taffy candy. Sugar...right? Gotta be. And these were strawberry flavored so, strawberry flavoring stuff. Yes! Sugar and strawberry stuff. Good start. But what in the world was this white stuff?
She hadn't even thought about that yet. Taking a quick peak at Destiny's recipe, since the name of it confused the heck out of her, Evelyn smiled and nodded. "Sounds good to me." Even though she'd never tried it.
Aileen looked around if there was anybody to cook with, but decided to start alone and see if anyone would join her. She realized that she had brought a book of easy recipes with her. She took it out of her bag and started to look through the book. Hm, this one looks easy.
SPOILER!!: Recipe
BACON AND WILD MUSHROOM PASTA
4 oz. procini mushrooms
3/4 c. hot chicken broth
5 strips of bacon
1 sm. red pepper, diced
2 cloves garlic
1/4 c. brandy
1/2 tsp. thyme
1/2 c. whipping cream
6 to 8 oz. penne or other pasta
Soak mushrooms in 1/4 cup hot broth until soft. Drain. Cut mushrooms into bite size pieces. Cook bacon discard all but 3 teaspoons fat. Remove bacon and crumble set aside.
In frying pan add pepper, garlic and mushrooms. Saute 5 minutes. Remove from pan. Add brandy and scrape pan, reduce to glaze. Return the pepper mixture to pan. Add remaining 1/2 cup broth and thyme. Simmer 10 minutes or until reduced by 1/2. Add cream and simmer over very low heat until warm. Toss with pasta and bacon.
She went to retriev the ingredients and started to prepare it.
"I know." She said with a quick nod of her head, but he couldn't protect her from herself and that's what worried her.
Still, it couldn't kill her to try and cut the carrot properly. Injure her maybe, but not kill.
Handing over her knife, she leaned forward slightly and chewed on her bottom lip as she watched him show her how to position her fingers on the carrot. Her eyes never left his hands as he started to cut the carrot, watching to see how he moved it down the orange vegetable.
He made it look so easy. No fair.
Seriously, this is one of the reasons she liked magic, cause it could do things she didn't care to do like cleaning and cooking.
And then he handed the knife to her, she knew it was coming, still she was a little hesitant to take the knife. But take it she did, after staring at her partially cut carrot for a quick moment she put her hand on the vegatable the way Sir Lawson had shown her.
"Like this..." It was a question and statement rolled into one. She gave him a quick glance that said if 'I lose a finger I'm blaming you in my parents letter' and placed the knife on the carrot not to close to her fingers. Then she slooooowly began to cut the veggie. It was uneven cuts, and the whole move your hand down while you cut thing was proving more difficult than she thought, having to pause a couple of moments to repositon her hand, but she was cutting the carrot and NOT her fingers. That's all one can really ask for.
Knowing full well that Arya was not confident in this task, Marcus hovered over her shoulder watching her progress as she sliced the carrot.
"Very good Arya. Now you're getting the hang of it" he said giving her shoulder a light pat. "You can keep practicing if you like or you can start on your recipe."
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Pffft. Making her wait!
Maybe she could play with the knife until he gets over here. Wait, no. Her uncle said that was a bad thing to do.
Placing the knife back down on the cutting board again, she shoved her hand in her pocket and pulled out...two more taffies! Wow, she thought she only brought two. Huh. Oh, that's right. She was saving one for later use.
Staring at them for a moment, the Slytherin closed her hand on them before looking up and staring at Lawson. Maybe she could try like...mind control on him. Mwhaha!
And when that didn't work, she started to think of what was put into a taffy candy. Sugar...right? Gotta be. And these were strawberry flavored so, strawberry flavoring stuff. Yes! Sugar and strawberry stuff. Good start. But what in the world was this white stuff?
She hadn't even thought about that yet. Taking a quick peak at Destiny's recipe, since the name of it confused the heck out of her, Evelyn smiled and nodded. "Sounds good to me." Even though she'd never tried it.
Sauntering over to Evelyn, Lawson stopped and lent over the table placing his elbows onto the tabletop.
"So Miss Flores, I do believe we have some candy to make" he said eyeing the sweet in her hand.
Of all the things she could have had him do, Marcus was grateful that she had picked him to cook for her. It couldn't get any easier as far as he was concerned.
Super Slytherin Buddy | | ⅓ She-Snake Trio | | a normal girl with normal knees
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Originally Posted by aussiegirl
Sauntering over to Evelyn, Lawson stopped and lent over the table placing his elbows onto the tabletop.
"So Miss Flores, I do believe we have some candy to make" he said eyeing the sweet in her hand.
Of all the things she could have had him do, Marcus was grateful that she had picked him to cook for her. It couldn't get any easier as far as he was concerned.
He was awesome at cooking.
Smiling as Lawsguini came over to their table, Evelyn placed two of the candies on the table, and unwrapped one of them.
Taking the knife, she cut it in half and handed one half to the professor. "A little sample for you to go by." And he better get it right on the first try. She didn't have THAT many taffies for him to sample. Plus he was lucky enough to even touch it!
Crossing her arms behind her back, she took a step away from the counter and before deciding to take out a little notepad from her pocket. And yes, a pencil too. Might as well use muggle items considering the class right? A pencil was a muggle item....right?
Hmm, that was a good idea. He had never thought of that. Being a sweet maker, that would be totally sweet. "Hmm, maybe I will. I never thought of that. I could get Paris to help me with some of my experiential," Paris was the best potioneer he knew and she had the best lab, well outside of JoJo's. But his was for a gearhead not a potioneer.
His face fell when Oliver said sugar free. Was there even a such thing as a sugar free cookie? "Yeah two batches sounds really good to me. I want sugar in mine." He wasn't going to waste a perfectly good cooking session on sugar free cookies. That was just wrong on all accounts. "Sugar is the best thing in the world why would you avoid it?" he asked him honestly.
Oooh.. cool! Paris was great at all that science and potions stuff. Oliver grinned at his nephew. “Just stay out her lab, 'kay. I snuck in there once and she went, like, mental. Seriously.” He crinkled his nose. Paris was INSANE. Like seriously insane.
Ah.. maan. That wasn't fair. If Digz was having sugar then so was he. He could ration the cookies rather than scoff the lot which wasn't a great idea with sugar free stuff anyway... unless you wanted give yourself the trots. *Snicker* He pulled a face. Man, Nathan didn't tell his family anything, did he? “I'm allergic.” He mumbled. “Makes me go a bit crazy.” He pressed his finger to his temple and went crossed eyes imitating what his idea of a crazy person was like.
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Originally Posted by aussiegirl
"Thank you Daniel. Now I want you all to pick up the chef's knife. It's the one that looks like this." He held up the knife to show them which one it is.
"Now take your carrot or celery and place your hand (the one that's not holding the knife) on the vegetable. The blade of the knife should rest against your knuckles and your fingers should be tucked back towards the palm of your hand."
Lawson picked up his chef's knife and demonstrated the correct way it should done. "Just like this" he said. "And then you want the point of the knife resting against the chopping board and then you bring the knife down across your vegetable and then back up again, kind of like a rocking motion."
He proceeded to demonstrate what he was talking about by slicing his celery into even pieces. When that was done he looked up again and smiled encouragingly. "Okay now you lot give it ago but take it slowly. I don't want anyone chopping their fingers off."
A-slicin' and a-dicin'. La la la la...
Oliver picked up the chefs knife as indicated by Professor Lawson and whistled happily to himself as he began to slowly chop up the carrot into cubes... or dices or slices or whatever. Oliver was a halfy - he knew muggle ways but he had never cooked anything before except for beans of toast and the occasional egg so he took to the task rather cautiously. He wasn't very good at the chopping – he went about it tentatively, his tongue in the corner of his mouth as he concentrated on not chopping his long fingers off. When he was done, his pieces of carrot were all a bit messy and uneven but he figured that didn't matter. It would taste AWESOME because Oliver was making it.. whatever it was. Heh.
Smiling as Lawsguini came over to their table, Evelyn placed two of the candies on the table, and unwrapped one of them.
Taking the knife, she cut it in half and handed one half to the professor. "A little sample for you to go by." And he better get it right on the first try. She didn't have THAT many taffies for him to sample. Plus he was lucky enough to even touch it!
Crossing her arms behind her back, she took a step away from the counter and before deciding to take out a little notepad from her pocket. And yes, a pencil too. Might as well use muggle items considering the class right? A pencil was a muggle item....right?
Erm...
Anyways. Time for taffy making!
Lawson knew that he had to eat the taffy so that he knew what was in it but he had to admit, he actually hesitated taking it from Evelyn.
Would the girl poison him?
Probably.
But he would have to assume that she wouldn't be that silly to do it in front of witnesses. So Marcus, took the taffy from her and popped it into his mouth.
It was actually pretty good and he managed to decipher most of the flavors. The rest he was going to have to take a guess at.
"Okay this is what we're going to need. Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cream (Milk), Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Lactic Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Artificial Color (Red 40), Salt, Soy Lecithin and Strawberries will make the natural flavoring."
He looked at Evelyn expectantly to make sure that she had written that down. He hoped that she had because he didn't think he would be able to remember it.
ooc: Gah woman, I had to search for that candy ingredients lol. It may be slightly different but meh we both know he was never gonna get it right. Lol.
"Okay good job you pretty much know your knives." Lawson spotted a certain Huffie enter in just behind the Head Girl.
"Nice of you to come Jacob. Don't hide in the back, head over to a workstation."
"Thank you Daniel. Now I want you all to pick up the chef's knife. It's the one that looks like this." He held up the knife to show them which one it is.
"Now take your carrot or celery and place your hand (the one that's not holding the knife) on the vegetable. The blade of the knife should rest against your knuckles and your fingers should be tucked back towards the palm of your hand."
Lawson picked up his chef's knife and demonstrated the correct way it should done. "Just like this" he said. "And then you want the point of the knife resting against the chopping board and then you bring the knife down across your vegetable and then back up again, kind of like a rocking motion."
He proceeded to demonstrate what he was talking about by slicing his celery into even pieces. When that was done he looked up again and smiled encouragingly. "Okay now you lot give it ago but take it slowly. I don't want anyone chopping their fingers off."
Walking around the room, Lawson stopped at each workstation to watch the student's progress and he gave a nod of approval at how well they were all doing.
He knew that he had been taking a risk putting knives into their hands especially those who had probably never picked up one in their life before.
As he stopped by Amy's workstation, he gave the girl a smile. "We're just slicing them for now. I don't want to start off to early with anything too difficult."
Lawson moved onto the next workstation and his lips twitched ever so slightly as he watched Arya's attempt. He cleared his throat and moved a little closer to her. "Now Arya, that's cheating" he said with a small chuckle. "I assure you that if you hold your hand like I showed you, you will not cut your fingers off. And besides you have to keep stopping when you need to pull the fork out and move it down the vegetable."
He looked around at the rest of the students, "You are all doing a great job. Now I don't think I need to show you how to mix ingredients together so I want you all to take out your recipes now and we shall get started with cooking. You will find everything you need in the pantry at the back of the room and the refrigerators. I'm just going to help Arya out here a little more but if you need me then just yell out to me."[/QUOTE]
There was no way Diggy was using a knife. He would leave that up to someone else. He needed his fingers for a lot of things, and his hands were shaking too much to trust them with his fingers. He just watched everyone else chopping with their knives. There were a lot braver than he was.
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Oooh.. cool! Paris was great at all that science and potions stuff. Oliver grinned at his nephew. “Just stay out her lab, 'kay. I snuck in there once and she went, like, mental. Seriously.” He crinkled his nose. Paris was INSANE. Like seriously insane.
Ah.. maan. That wasn't fair. If Digz was having sugar then so was he. He could ration the cookies rather than scoff the lot which wasn't a great idea with sugar free stuff anyway... unless you wanted give yourself the trots. *Snicker* He pulled a face. Man, Nathan didn't tell his family anything, did he? “I'm allergic.” He mumbled. “Makes me go a bit crazy.” He pressed his finger to his temple and went crossed eyes imitating what his idea of a crazy person was like.
A-slicin' and a-dicin'. La la la la...
Oliver picked up the chefs knife as indicated by Professor Lawson and whistled happily to himself as he began to slowly chop up the carrot into cubes... or dices or slices or whatever. Oliver was a halfy - he knew muggle ways but he had never cooked anything before except for beans of toast and the occasional egg so he took to the task rather cautiously. He wasn't very good at the chopping – he went about it tentatively, his tongue in the corner of his mouth as he concentrated on not chopping his long fingers off. When he was done, his pieces of carrot were all a bit messy and uneven but he figured that didn't matter. It would taste AWESOME because Oliver was making it.. whatever it was. Heh.
Diggy turned and looked at Oliver. "I already learned that lesson. She turned me into a slug before for going into her lab. She put me in her fish tank before mom found me. She got grounded for 3 months for that one," Diggy loved irritating his sister even if she got a bit insane when she was provoked. "Have you ever picked on her for that little mirror she carries around?" he asked with a evil smile on his face. Oliver was probably more scared of Paris than Diggy was, not that he wasn't scared of Paris he just knew there was a point she wouldn't cross. She didn't have that line with Liam and certainly not Oliver. "Now there's a rocking good time," he teased.
He nodded. "Yeah sugar does that to me too, but I don't rightly care." he shrugged, and he didn't. It made him feel great and he loved it. Though it was becoming a problem.
He saw a recipe book laying open on a table and it didn't seem like Oliver had a recipe to he leafed through the book looking for one. "Want to try this one?" he asked his uncle. There wasn't too much sugar in the recipe, but enough for Diggy to enjoy eating them.
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Sugar Cookies- Alton Brown
Ingredients
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 egg, beaten
* 1 tablespoon milk
* Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
Directions
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Divide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Sprinkle surface where you will roll out dough with powdered sugar. Remove 1 wrapped pack of dough from refrigerator at a time, sprinkle rolling pin with powdered sugar, and roll out dough to 1/4-inch thick. Move the dough around and check underneath frequently to make sure it is not sticking. If dough has warmed during rolling, place cold cookie sheet on top for 10 minutes to chill. Cut into desired shape, place at least 1-inch apart on greased baking sheet, parchment, or silicone baking mat, and bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges, rotating cookie sheet halfway through baking time. Let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes after removal from oven and then move to complete cooling on wire rack. Serve as is or ice as desired. Store in airtight container for up to 1 week.
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Originally Posted by aussiegirl
Lawson knew that he had to eat the taffy so that he knew what was in it but he had to admit, he actually hesitated taking it from Evelyn.
Would the girl poison him?
Probably.
But he would have to assume that she wouldn't be that silly to do it in front of witnesses. So Marcus, took the taffy from her and popped it into his mouth.
It was actually pretty good and he managed to decipher most of the flavors. The rest he was going to have to take a guess at.
"Okay this is what we're going to need. Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cream (Milk), Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Lactic Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Artificial Color (Red 40), Salt, Soy Lecithin and Strawberries will make the natural flavoring."
He looked at Evelyn expectantly to make sure that she had written that down. He hoped that she had because he didn't think he would be able to remember it.
ooc: Gah woman, I had to search for that candy ingredients lol. It may be slightly different but meh we both know he was never gonna get it right. Lol.
Listening to the ingredients Lawson was saying, she wrote down the words as quickly as she could onto her little notebook, having a little trouble considering she wasn't used to writing with a pencil. Not that it was difficult holding the thing, just...no ink! So weird!
And what in the world was Soy Lesethin?
"This tiny taffy needs all these ingredients?" she asked, raising a brow but taking a deep breathe anyways. "Alright then. You can get ...everything but the salt, sugar, strawberries, and cream. Since, I have no clue what all the other stuff is." And it sounded poisonous. Acid? They were putting acid into the candy? Now Lawson was trying to poison HER! Well, he'll just have to have the first taste after they create the candy now wouldn't he.
Ripping off the small piece of paper with the ingredients down, she gave it to the Professor and then went off towards all the ingredients. At least she could remember those four items. Who knew if his oldness aloud him to remember all of HIS ingredients. Teehee.
Walking over to the ingredients, she placed her notebook down on the table. Sure, she could've summoned everything, but Lawson would probably get all angry hippogriff on her since she was in a muggle studies club, and plus...summoning things in a kitchen was a disaster in Charms class.
Gathering everything that was needed, she slightly struggled her way back to her table, thanking Merlin that it was far, and placed everything down on the counter. Sugar, salt, cream, and the most important...strawberries.
"Ooooooo, I love candy!!!" Nymphy said. "Professor?" he said, raising his hand. "I've only done this once, but I belive that for cnady, we usually start with a simple syrup and then depending on the desired consistancy, we heat to the appropriate temperature. At least thats what I did when I made fudge that one time!" he said, excidedly. Nymphy was good at this class, but unlike Charms, this was natural talent. He was only way ahead in Charms becasue his uncle had taught him so fanatically. his talent in this class just came to him!
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Oh. This was the second professor that had offered her, some comfort. Gold smiled, a tiny smile, and nodded. "Thank you, professor." Then she somewhat slunk out of the spotlight, letting people answer and talk and talk some more, only shaking herself out of her thoughts when she realized they could finally whip something up.
She wanted to bake, of course. She LOVED baking. Was excellent at it, too. Cooking? She could manage, but only barely.
Speaking of baking, where was --
TORINTORINTORIN!
"I can't pounce upon you, right now," Gold complained, with a pout, as she looked up at him. Because he was taller than her. Which was okay, because she thought her height was perfect. Like her hair, and name and -- and she needed to stop being vain. It was the one drawback she was always trying to discard, and never, ever succeeding.
"What d'you want to bake?"
Yep. Because she knew he would want to bake something. Baking. That was Mr. T's strength. Hers, too. "Does a cakeyy sound fun?" She had lots of suggestions, in that brain of hers. LOTS.
Rawr.
He laughed as she was disappointed that she couldn't pounce on him. "I'm sure that you will make up for it later." Because he knew that the next time she saw him, he would end up flat on his back. It was like their thing or something.
He laughed as she was disappointed that she couldn't pounce on him. "I'm sure that you will make up for it later." Because he knew that the next time she saw him, he would end up flat on his back. It was like their thing or something.
"Ooh. Okay. What kind?"
CAKEYY!
"I will," Gold laughed. "Something with chocolate sounds perfect, in fact. Waitt." She flipped open her recipe-book. It would, after all, be best if they followed a recipe, given that they were working in a mini-group, and would need something that could ensure co-ordination.
SPOILER!!: Recipeee
Ingredients;
8 oz (225 g) dark semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)
2/3 cup (140 g) butter
1 cup (210 g) sugar
4 eggs
4 heaped tablespoons (1 dl) all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1½ teaspoon baking powder or 1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons sour cream
Ingredients for frosting;
2/3 cup (1.6 dl) heavy cream or whipping cream
9 oz (260 g) semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)
Death by chocolate cake
Method;
1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F (Gas mark 4 or 180 deg C).
2. Line a circular 10 inch (25 cm) cake tin (3 inches tall) with grease proof or other non-stick paper and grease the tin. (Please note that the cake will rise to 3 inches and collapse somewhat when cooled. If your cake tin is less than 10 inches wide and 3 inches tall we recommend that you use two cake tins.)
3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it with butter over hot water.
4. Beat the eggs with sugar, mix with flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla extract.
5. Slowly fold in the melted butter and chocolate and the sour cream.
6. Bake at 350 degrees until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, approximately 40 to 50 minutes (if using 2 cake tins 20-30 minutes may be sufficient).
7. Cool the cake completely. When it has obtained room temperature place it in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before removing the cake from the tin (the cake is sticky and difficult to cut when it is warm!) Remove the crusted surface on the top of the cake, and cut in half, horizontally.
Frosting;
1. Heat 2/3 cup (1.6 dl) of heavy cream or whipping cream in a sauce pan.
2. Remove from heat, add 9 oz (260 g) of finely chopped dark semisweet chocolate, stir until smooth, and let it cool until in thickens.
3. Use one 1/3 of the frosting between the two layers, 1/3 on top, and the rest around the cake. Put the cake into the fridge for one hour or more to harden the frosting.
4. This cake should have room temperature when served.
Coming to a specific CAKEY! recipe, Gold paused. This looked like quite, quite a yummy cake. She could imagine the end product even now, a tower of rich, dark chocolate.
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Knowing full well that Arya was not confident in this task, Marcus hovered over her shoulder watching her progress as she sliced the carrot.
"Very good Arya. Now you're getting the hang of it" he said giving her shoulder a light pat. "You can keep practicing if you like or you can start on your recipe."
He was hovering, which was making her nervious....the whole someones watching you thing. She continued to slooowly cut the carrot and tried to ignore Lawson's....hovering.
And then he was touching her, whyyy was he touching her when she was handling a weapon of mass distruction? Was he trying to freak her out? Cause it sorta kinda worked.
Hmm. No more cutting please? She moved assided the knives and cut carrots and pulled over her cook book. Fudge brownies with nuts sounded like a fun make. Getting up from her seat, she began to gather the ingredents she would need.
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CAKEYY!
"I will," Gold laughed. "Something with chocolate sounds perfect, in fact. Waitt." She flipped open her recipe-book. It would, after all, be best if they followed a recipe, given that they were working in a mini-group, and would need something that could ensure co-ordination.
SPOILER!!: Recipeee
Ingredients;
8 oz (225 g) dark semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)
2/3 cup (140 g) butter
1 cup (210 g) sugar
4 eggs
4 heaped tablespoons (1 dl) all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1½ teaspoon baking powder or 1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons sour cream
Ingredients for frosting;
2/3 cup (1.6 dl) heavy cream or whipping cream
9 oz (260 g) semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)
Death by chocolate cake
Method;
1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F (Gas mark 4 or 180 deg C).
2. Line a circular 10 inch (25 cm) cake tin (3 inches tall) with grease proof or other non-stick paper and grease the tin. (Please note that the cake will rise to 3 inches and collapse somewhat when cooled. If your cake tin is less than 10 inches wide and 3 inches tall we recommend that you use two cake tins.)
3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it with butter over hot water.
4. Beat the eggs with sugar, mix with flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla extract.
5. Slowly fold in the melted butter and chocolate and the sour cream.
6. Bake at 350 degrees until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, approximately 40 to 50 minutes (if using 2 cake tins 20-30 minutes may be sufficient).
7. Cool the cake completely. When it has obtained room temperature place it in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before removing the cake from the tin (the cake is sticky and difficult to cut when it is warm!) Remove the crusted surface on the top of the cake, and cut in half, horizontally.
Frosting;
1. Heat 2/3 cup (1.6 dl) of heavy cream or whipping cream in a sauce pan.
2. Remove from heat, add 9 oz (260 g) of finely chopped dark semisweet chocolate, stir until smooth, and let it cool until in thickens.
3. Use one 1/3 of the frosting between the two layers, 1/3 on top, and the rest around the cake. Put the cake into the fridge for one hour or more to harden the frosting.
4. This cake should have room temperature when served.
Coming to a specific CAKEY! recipe, Gold paused. This looked like quite, quite a yummy cake. She could imagine the end product even now, a tower of rich, dark chocolate.
"This sound alright?" She asked Mr. T brightly.
Rawwrr.
He smiled and gave her a thumbs up. They were such a team, and yummy chocolate cake!!
"Sounds like a plan, Miss. G." ZOMG! Chocolate cake!
He smiled and gave her a thumbs up. They were such a team, and yummy chocolate cake!!
"Sounds like a plan, Miss. G." ZOMG! Chocolate cake!
Right, riiighttt!
Gold glanced down at the recipe. "I'll take step two, you take step three?" She offered. She LOVED working with chocolate, absolutely LOVED it and, a moment after she had spoken out loud, Gold wondered why on earth she hadn't opted for step three. Oh, well.
Oven set, she picked a circular cake-pin, and laid a wax paper at its bottom. Now, to grease it. That was easy. Gold had LOTS of practice, with baking. Smiling at the thought of chocochocoCHOCOLATE!, the sixth year picked up a silicone brush and, unscrewing a bottle of vegetable oil, poured oil into a big bowl. In which she then dipped her brush.
Once she had slowwwlyy but surely applied the oil, to grease the cakeyyy-pan, Gold poked a small spoon in the flour-supply, and dropped a teaspoonful of the stuff into the cakey-pan.
"This is going to turn out delicious, isn't it?" She asked Mr. T, brightly. Because they were both good bakers, even though she wasn't such a good cook, to be honest. Still, they made an excellent team. Would have, even if both of them had been bad at baking, because they knew how to have fun. Gold had always thought that knowing how to have fun, while learning, is more important than just learning.
Marcus rolled his eyes at Evelyn and pushed off the table and headed for the pantry at the back of the room, to collect the ingredients that Miss Flores was too lazy to get.
With his arms full of ingredients he placed them down onto the table just in time to catch the young Hufflepuff's statement.
"You are quite correct Nymphy and to get it to the right consistency we are going to need..." he reached into one of the drawers and pulled out a small looking instrument..."a thermometer."
Lawson turned back to Evelyn, "You are also going to need a saucepan and measuring jug. Oh and probably a spoon would be a good idea as well."
He looked at the Slytherin expectantly, "You do know what those things are, right?"
Ten galleons says she doesn't.
Man, he needed to stop with the betting. It had already got him into this mess.
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Having completely missed Lawson rolling his eyes, Evelyn stared at the things that were gathered so far...before looking up to glare stare at whoever was asking about candy. Raising a brow at the guy, the Slytherin kept staring at him, unsure if he was actually going to help them make her taffy, or if he was making his own candy.
Because she was surely not going to be sharing her own.
Turning her attention back to the Professor, she narrowed her hazel eyes at him, knowing full well what was really being asked here. "I do." she simply said, taking a few steps back, a small smile appearing on her lips even though she was still slightly glaring at him before she went off to find a saucepan and measuring jug. And apparently a spoon, but which spoon he needed, the girl didn't know. "Would be easier if I could summon this stuff..."
But since this was 'Muggle Studies' and such, probably would be kicked out for using magic. Coming back to the table, she placed the saucepan, measuring jug, and three spoons on the table, each a difference size and material. Wooden, Silver, and Plastic. Yush!
"I didn't know what spoon you needed, so...there."
"Nice of you to come Jacob. Don't hide in the back, head over to a workstation."
Starting slightly as he heard his name (the stupid name, mind you), Jake entered the room fully. "It's Jake," he pointed out, looking irked.
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"Jake!" she hissed/whispered at the Hufflepuff when Lawson pointed him out, and waved him over while patting the empty space at their station. Hehe. "Come work with us..." Yes, join the Slytherins! It'll be fun! They totally had extra space at their station too.
Picking up the knife Lawson had held up to show them, for a moment, she let it sit where the light would reflect off of it to make it all shiny looking before taking another peak at the certain Huffy. Definitely would be fun if he worked with them. Teehee!
Watching the Professor demonstrate how to cut a carrot, or celery, Evelyn had to hold in a sigh. Her uncle taught her this over the summer, especially the way to hold the food so you wouldn't cut your fingers off. Which she had almost done countless of times, but she had definitely improved. "Don't jinx it Professor." she mumbled, pulling a carrot towards her and adjusting her fingers on the knife.
Seriously, the healer might just have to be permanently down here. But it would be funny to count how many 'ow' noises there were in the club. Let the counting...Begin!! As well as chopping!
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O____O
What was Evelyn thinking!? Destiny KNEW she was weird and all this term, but this was the weirdest she'd ever been. Inviting Jake..to sit with them!? If there weren't so many knives on the workstation, Destiny would have banged her head against it. Definitely.
After glaring a little hole through Evelyn, she turned her attention to Lawson who was cutting some kind of vegetable. Perhaps if he didn't have such GINORMOUS Giant hands, she would be able to make out what he was cutting. She watched closely as he chopped, and everytime the knife touched the vegetable she secretly hoped one of his fingers would be under that blade. Unfortunately, for her, his fingers were tucked and there would be no finger loss today. Unless..she caused a distraction. Mwaha!
By the time she thought about said distraction, Lawson was already done with his chopping. Pffft. She was just a little late. That didn't matter now, though, because it was HER turn to CHOP! Pulling a piece of celery closer to herself, because carrots reminded her of rabbits, and she had a VERY bad experience with one of those, she positioned her hand just the way the Professor demonstrated. She supposed it was better to have Giant hands..it would probably be easier to hold the blasted vegetable. After watching what Evelyn was doing for a few seconds, she picked up her chef's knife, *smirk*, and started chopping the celery.
Chooooooop, chop.
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What!?
Evelyn wanted Jake to come work with them? Did she hear her right? She had to be just messing with the boy. There was no way Evelyn could want to work with Jake. She looked over to Evelyn and whispered to her. "You don't really want him to work with us do you?" Not that she really minded if he did. Him working with them could totally be a way for her to annoy Lawson.
She watched as Lawson demonstrated how to hold the knife and chop the vegetables. Well that looked easy enough. Muggle cooking didn't look that hard so far. She picked up her knife and held it like Lawson was, then grabbed a piece of celery. She started chopping it in tiny pieces.
Chop
Chop
Chop Chop
After chopping one whole piece of celery... and not cutting a finger off... she put her knife down. This was definatly a boring task. She wanted to do something a little more fun. Like stomp on Lawson's foot
And then Evelyn invited him to join. Eh... So Jake probably usually would have been suspicious, but he wanted to prove that he wasn't afraid of anyone. He could soooooo cope with this. He was older now, like fifteen.
With a small smile, Jake moved up to this group and eyed everything. "We mmmaking sssweets?" he asked hopefully, without actually looking at what was going on.
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