A Christmas Carol, Baking and News

[ceebeegee]

I'm rewriting A Christmas Carol again--TTC is doing a smaller, version of it this year. It's going to be staged in the Hoboken Historical Museum which is an interesting space. Not huge but it has some cool features like a balcony and stairs. Anyway, we're doing it as a reading, so I have to figure out how to slim down the script and keep a good amount of music (it wouldn't be MY Xmas Carol without all that exquisitely Anglican music!).

I made apple-y stuff last weekend with the apples we picked--I found a great recipe for apple bread, very rich and sweet with walnuts. (Well, I played with it a bit, substituted some brown sugar for some of the regular sugar for which the recipe called. It made it VERY moist with a kind of streusel thing going through it.) The batter tasted fantastic, like cookies. I also made some applesauce. Tonight I want to make a pie--I took a quick peek for my glass pie pan in the cabinets and didn't see it but it must be there.

Oh, and Polanski update: Emma Thompson mercifully saw reason and is removing her name from the disgusting petition of support for Polanski, the rape-rapist. Yay for sanity!

Comments

[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I'll be able to get out of work early enough to see it on one of those dates.

Mmmmm... apple stuff.

[kellygirlnyc.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Can you send me the recipe for your apple bread? That sounds delicious!

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Here you go:

Apple bread (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Apple-Bread/Detail.aspx). As I said, I substituted about a cup of brown sugar for the regular sugar. The batter is THICK; it will take you some effort to work in all the nuts. Also, make sure you don't overbake it--don't wait for the knife to come out clean.

[planga.livejournal.com]

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Apple bread would go really nice with my new apartment.
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