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GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727

I was chatting with a friend this morning about baking.  I used to bake a lot of cookies at Christmas.  I gave cookie trays away as presents.  I loved every minute of it.  About 7 years ago, my niece and her friend came here to bake.  I had taught my niece how to bake and how to make icing.  They had a ball.  After that, something changed in my niece.  She never came back and I stopped baking.  Flashback two years ago, I did bake from scratch once.  I made a Jewish Apple Cake.  It totally flopped.  I think I put too much apple in it.  I tried to salvage it by cutting it up but no one touched it at the Christmas Eve party.  I have baked frozen pies but they don't count.  My friend really got me to think about baking again.  I could really love making some Toll House cookies and Russian Teacakes.  But who would eat them?  See, it would probably be a big waste.  Bummer?  Do you bake?  What are your specialties?

hasty_05
hasty_05
What about baking those cookies and taking them around to your neighbors? Put a dozen in a baggie or brown lunch bag and go knock on their door. Everyone loves to get homemade cookies and tends to appreciate this gesture. Even strangers.

I used to bake all the time, too. We don't eat so much sugar and flour any longer. My kids and I all had allergies and I was able to create my own recipes without wheat flour or eggs or milk and low sugar but tasty. My husband is a carb-aholic and will eat and eat. He is much too overweight and now a diabetic. So that ruins any baking I do to watch him overeat like he does on anything sweet and a carb. But my nice neighbor and her nephew bring us cookies they bake at the holidays. I don't eat them but I thank them and never tell them, and of course, husband does eat them (I can't eat wheat or eggs or dairy).
arfie
arfie
baking used to be one of my specialties, with bread being my specialty within the specialty. in my second year of pre-engineering, i came up pregnant my a man i couldn't imagine marrying. i earned extra money by selling high-nutrition bread for supporters willing to pay foolish amounts for high nutrient bread.

these days i can't give away fresh baked goods. taste buds rebel at the lack of processing and the school officials don't trust unpackaged goods.

i keep hoping for the art of baking to grow old enough to be new.
GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727
hasty, I guess if I decide to bake, I could bring some to school. My Aunt loves my cookies. arfie, I hope that you do get back to baking. I love restaurant bread. I make an exception on Keto when we go out for Italian food. I bet your bread was awesome. Way back in the late 80s, my the boyfriend gave me a bread maker. I think it took some crazy amount of hours to make a small loaf of bread. I only used it once. hasty, back to your reply, that's good that you and your kids are being healthy. I hope your husband gets smart about his eating habits.
hasty_05
hasty_05
Green, the irony is my kids were fed healthy, homemade, clean ingredients, all their lives and then grew up to eat a lot of crap. One of my estranged daughters has taught her kids to be afraid of normal food, like cooked chicken breast or vegetables. She feeds them stuff from bags and cheese. It is hard to watch this kind of thing as it is from my daughter's mental illness and she had taught her kids to fear food and have an eating disorder at a very young age.
GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727
hasty, I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's mental illness and how she has taught her kids to be afraid of food. Eating disorders are hard to beat.
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