EXAMS ARE OVER AND DONE WITH!

[beboots]

(Edit: I feel that I need a more "jubilantly" happy icon as opposed to "mildly positive". Hmm... Suggestions?)

 Huzzah! This doesn't mean I'm free, though, or that I even am finished all of my scholarly pursuits for the semester. Here is my to do list:

-apply for teaching assistant jobs abroad/in Quebec (I have three on my list)
-WORK ON THESIS. I have a bunch of books checked out, and they need readin'. Also, I should get some writing done. 
-repair the tears in my favourite winter coat (along the seam of the pocket, the inside of the lining of the shoulder)
-RELAX AND ENJOY LIFE
-Also, bake cookies! Here is an amazing recipe that they use to bake cookies at Henderson house on 1905 street at Fort Edmonton, which they have been baking every night I've worked Christmas reflections (and were kind enough to give me a copy of the recipe):

Fort Edmonton Shortbread (from an Edwardian-era recipe)
(For best results, of course, use a cast-iron wood burning stove, but as this isn't an ideal world I've included modern temperatures)

Ingredients
-1/2 cup cornstarch
-1 1/2 cups flour
-1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup icing sugar.

1) Mix butter with icing sugar
2) To the above mixture, mix in corn starch and flour to make a soft dough
3) Roll out the dough, and punch out your cookie shapes 
4)Using a moderate heat (300F) bake for 8 minutes

Then let cool, of course (they stick the entire pan out the side door to sit on the snow for a few minutes), and OMNOMNOM. No regrets! 

Comments

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Congrats! :D

... And you know, I am actually getting a woodburning stove along with the new house. I think I'll have this recipe and try it out when I'm bored.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

DO IT. And tell me how it turns out at your end! :D What kind of stove will it be?

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

It's a small castiron wood-burner in the garage. Pretty much going to be used for if/when the power goes out. It basically has a plate on top to boil water/snow. The most difficult part will be regulating the temperature, I think.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, definitely. Although I think we place far too much importance on having the EXACT temperature correct (it MUST be 350F and not 360F), when most of the time it will be "good enough". But still, very tricky indeed.

[feral-shrew.livejournal.com]

I just made cookies today. Mine were butter/a little sugar/egg/almond extract/pinch of salt/flour, and decorated with exceedingly complicated designs in a powdered sugar-with-milk icing.

My favorites this year are the triceratops and the T rex. My mother thinks I'm insane, but if she doesn't want to end up with unicorns and dinosaurs mixed in with her angels and gingerbread men, she should have less awesome cookie cutters.

Congratulations on the exams being done!

For a jubilantly-happy icon: look for any screenshots of ridiculously happy expressions from favorite characters, maybe?

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I will begin to search for a jubilantly happy icon post-haste. :3

"but if she doesn't want to end up with unicorns and dinosaurs mixed in with her angels and gingerbread men, she should have less awesome cookie cutters." TRUFAX. They sound awesome. :D

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Jobs for the summer! a;sldkfjadslk >____< Yeah, I should probably start on looking for and applying to those too...

But still, YAY FOR BEING FREE \O/ \O/ \O/