Baking day~

Date: 22nd Dec 2007
Weather: Not so cold...mild snows

Hmm...back to blogging moment~ actually want to update yesterday night, but suddenly at 12.30am, one side of hostel attacked by 'black out', which is my side, while johnny's side still brighten with their lamps. That's why cannot update my blog yesterday night. Thank GOd I did my project before 12.30 am. Hahaha....Black out lasted for about 2 hours ah~ So long..we had to light up our candles~My friend gave me 3 aromatic candles...that time i thought there's no way i can use it for....but yesterday night, i had to depend on them to light up my rooom....haha...Thanks to my friend...

Around 2.30 am, the electricity came back to us....so i took the picture of the three candles..ahaha...

Remember the christmas tree i mentioned before, last few post, i took a picture of it before it was decorated....yesterday morning, while we walked to our class, saw it was decorated nicely with blink blink light....hahaha...

This is the ginger bread before it was put into the oven to bake....last few days, was helping Creative arts ministry to bake the ginger bread....quite fun~....and of course it's tiring....Heard they had around 700+ orders of ginger breads. there's a pair for one order...one gingy (male) and one gingeress (female)...so around 1400 ginger breads got to be sent out! They started on Monday and they finished it on time!! and all of the ginger breads were delivered to their own receiver on time yesterday, just before christmas! Good job people!

after 5 minutes in the oven....the ginger breads expand, swelled, and size up!..haha...

8 minutes passed, the ginger breads are to be cooled down and keep in a box.....then later on , they will decorate it with icing sugar..

This is the 2 packets of ginger breads i got this year...one from my roomate, mariam, and another one from hooi lian...

hmmm...why egg white seperator?? hahaha...yesterday afternoon, after class, i decided to bake kuih momo for my shepherd, for her birthday on 22nd of december....so bought the ingredients which are eggs (34 rb for 10 eggs), (flour 32.50rb for 2 kg), ghee butter (60rb for 1 kg), sugar, milk powder some salts....the recipe needs only egg white, so i had to seperate the egg whites lor...this is the tool for me to seperate it easily...haha..it belongs to johnny's....

these are the egg yolks! what am i going to do with it? ahhaa..i finished all of it with 2 meals....around 4 eggyolks for one fried rice yesterday, and another 4 for today's salted fish fried rice...yummy~

first of all, i had to mixed the egg whites......the recipe needs only 4 eggs with 500 g ghee, but i m doing double amount of it....so 8 eggs with 1 kg of ghee....

after the mixing, it became like this...

Now add in ghee butter and mix together~after that, mixed with flour slowly until you get the right consistency....actually recipe stated 900 g of flour for 500g of ghee butter, so 1800g of flour for 1kg of ghee, but i used less than 1800g, so next time dont need to weight the flour, just add into according to your feel.....凭感觉~

after you get the right consistency, make it into small balls, this is the time-consuming part...you need a very long time to transform all of it into multiple small balls to bake....thanks to johnny and his gf, adeline, and colley for helping me to shape all of it into small balls....hahaha......and put into the oven to bake, for 15 minutes....

this is the first batch, it's not what we wanted, i think it stayed in the oven too long, so 15 minutes is too long, so have to decrease the time, or the temperature..

this is the second batch, hmm.....improving.....but still too yellow...it should be white colour...

this batch was much more better.........

after baking it in the oven, let them cooled down first, and then coated them with sugar powder (blended sugar)......then keep them in the container....

i distributed some of my kuih momo to my groupmates also, to lynn wei and roomates, teo and roomates, kelvin and roomates, shi how and linda, mariam and some others.....haha.....see the brown kuih momo, i also distributed evenly among them, so that i dont have to finish them by myself.....

and, some of them thought the brown ones are chocolate or coffee flavour, but actually it is not...it is because of keeping it too long in oven and they almost burn up...hahhaa.....

Finally, finished baking, time for cleaning up and distributing them to my groupmates and friends....hmm....they all so shocked that i will bake and distributed it to them...ahhaha......johnny went to take a long nape after helping me baking it....haha...oh ya...he also, wasted one tray of unbaked kuih momo which he dropped it on the floor just before he put it into the oven....aihh..wasted~hahaha...nevermind la...still got many kuih momo which are enough for giving out to friends....haha..

this is the container i used to keep the kuih momo for my shepherd...the container i took from johnny...haha...looks plain, so i decorated it with something

After decoration......

What's this?? Was waiting for it every week, every day, hahaha....then today on my way to church, saw a few slips like this on the table, decided to take a look, then feel quite disappointed for a while cause didnt see what i wanted, but then i saw there's another one on the other corner covered with others letters, and yeah!~!~ it's mine! it's my slip....finally!~!..THank GOD!..hohoho..this is the slip informing me that my PARCEL had arrived!! hahaha...so getting it on next monday because tommorrow is sunday......

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND~