Now, for anybody reading this for book reviews (though I highly doubt it considering the only people I see on this site are my family), but if there are any anonymous, non-family readers, sorry for going off topic but I promised my aunt I would write about our bake day.
NOTE- this may be long, I seem to be almost incapable of telling a simple, to the point story, helpful if you're writing a book, not so much if you’re telling an oral story to someone.
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0700 Friday, March 26, 2010
I wake, it is dark and cold. My mother is rushing around the house preparing everything, she tells me to get dressed, and I do.
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0730 Friday, March 26, 2010
My mom and I enter our transportation vehicle, it is still cold, I think Hell has frozen over, time for the cheerleaders to kiss the nerds. The sun is starting to shine, but it has little effect on the snow leftover from the blizzard two days ago.
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0800 Friday, March 26, 2010
We reach the house in which we will be baking, I collapse onto the bed and wait. The dog comes to greet me, I reply with a simple "Hi". I fall into a half sleep. I continue to wait.
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0830 Friday, March 26, 2010
I hear the doorbell. It is my Aunt. She enters and she and my mother converse. The baking commences. We start with yeast for rolls. We prepare the ingredients whilst the yeast rises.
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0900 Friday, March 26,2010
we mix the dough. We then let it rise for an hour and start on the almond roca at 0945.
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0945 Friday, March 26, 2010
We make the toffee for the Almond roca. Mother again documents the event on her iPhone. We pour the caramel into the pan and let it harden a little bit, so it is caramel toffee. We place the chocolate squares on top of the caramel toffee and let it melt, we then spread the chocolate over the entirety of the toffee and then place and press the almonds onto the top. We let it cool in the fridge and wait the remainder of the hour.
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1000 Friday, March 26, 2010
We start rolling the bread. I apparently get the rolling down pact faster than normal. Auntie Maranda makes one pan, I make two.
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1030 Friday, March 26, 2010
We wait for the bread to rise more. Auntie Maranda's is done first, we place it into the oven at 1045, it is done cooking at 1100.
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1100 Friday, March 26, 2010
My bread is done rising, I receive praise for the good placing and rolling of the dough. We bake the bread, it is done at 1120.
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1145 Friday, March 26, 2010
While Mother is eating the bread, Auntie Maranda and I break the almond roca. We then eat some of the roca.
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1200 Friday, March 26, 2010
Bake day is over, message will self destruct in 5 seconds.
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five, four, three, two, one.
*BOOM*
