On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:12:19 -0800, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>Christine wrote:
>
>> Well..it is time for another cookalong, if anyone wants to join in. On
>> December 8th and 9th.
>>
>> There is a reason for this going over two days..and it started with
>> me.. I will be making my fruitcake those two days...and a few of us
>> started thinking along the same lines. Why not have a baking
>> cookalong?
>>
>> For me, it will be my fruitcake..but if any of you want to fix
>> something else, that is fine. A bit of holiday baking...? A
>> fruitcake, a fruit bread? Stollen? What do you generally bake for
>> the holidays?
>>
>> Or do you want to try something new to you? Want to try making a
>> fruitcake? Want to try making stollen? Want to make something else?
>>
>> Anyway, this will start the afternoon of December 8th. I will finish
>> up my fruitcake on December 9, so anyone that wants to join in..can do
>> so both days, or either day.
>
Ooooh! Another cook along? Great! I'm free that weekend and I can
certainly figure out something to bake. Count me in Christine!
>
>I'll be making fruitcakes on the 4th, and brandy-spritzing them every couple
>days for the next two weeks. I need them to have mellowed for two weeks by
>the 19th. I might also make a sacher torte on the 5th, since that's National
>Sacher Torte Day.
>
>I'll be working on the 8th, but I might be able to do some more holiday
>baking on the 9th. My Christmas desserts will be a cherry-mincemeat pie and
>Mexican chocolate pots de creme,

Mexican Pots de Creme? Using the Mexican chocolate you'd use for hot
chocolate?

>but I'm not going to make them until
>Christmas Day. I might make cookies on the 9th: I like the cornmeal-ginger
>cookie recipe in _Cafe Beaujolais_ as well as the Cook's Illustrated recipe
>for butter cookies.
>
>


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