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First a made some bread, a small braided loaf, some sandwich buns and raisin cinnamon bread, all made from my oat/wheat recipe.

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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! Happy Holidays to all and Happy Boxing Day to those who celebrate that!

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Baker Aunt, I'm not sure, I won't be cutting into it until Christmas eve. I shaped it into a wreath so it came out skinnier than usual. I once saw Martha Stewart shape a stollen into a wreath, her's looked good, mine looks like a big doughnut.

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Today I started soaking some KA fruitcake dried fruit in rum to used in stollen. I'll be making the recipe from Peter Reinhart's The Bread Baker's Apprentice. Speaking of which, I'm getting that book as a gift for someone, there is an updated 15th anniversary edition.

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Interesting but I'll pass on it for now. I don't have spare counter space either. And I don't want my appliances to be smarter than me!

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We need the fix-it guy they had on the Andy Griffith Show, I can't think of that guy's name now. But if I recall, he was always tinkering with a toaster.

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Interesting. An advantage to the steel is you don't have to worry about overheating it. It's something I've thought about but haven't felt compelled yet.

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I only rinse rice if the package directions say to. Otherwise I presume the rice is prewashed. If the rice is enriched, it has vitamins sprayed on the outside of it, rinsing would wash it off.

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I baked a Hazelnut cake. I used a vanilla cake mix from Arrowhead Mills. It's a great mix because it has little or no vanilla flavor on it's own so you can easily flavor it as you want. I got a bottle of hazelnut flavor from The Spice House recently and used a tsp in the batter. I also added a 1/4 cup of hazelnut flour I got from King Arthur but I'm not sure that added any real flavor to the cake. I topped it with a chocolate frosting that I added 1/4 tsp of the hazelnut flavor to. Very nice hazelnut taste altogether.

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I didn't see this weeks episode yet but I think tonight.

Last weeks 2 hour episode was broken into 2 separate episodes "on demand" so I think they were actually made as separate episodes but ran back to back to kick off the season.

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I recently bought my first hand mixer. I have a KA stand mixer but sometimes I have felt the need for something smaller, like making a small amount of frosting, for example. So I checked Consumers Reports and found a Cuisinart for $40 was top rated and a KA for $100 was a very close second. I went on Amazon and found the Cuisinart from a 3rd party seller for about $80 and the KA also for about $80. Seems to me the main difference between the 2 mixers is that the KA comes with a number of attachments whereas the Cuisinart only came with the beaters. Well, that's really all that I wanted. But I didn't want to reward an Amazon 3rd party seller for bad behavior so I looked at Home Depot and found the Cuisinart for $40 with free shipping, so that's what I bought. Been using it a couple of times a week and so far I like it a lot.

I don't have any experience with Cuisinart customer service but did run into a small problem with a KA attachment once. KA sent a replacement part right away with no hassle.

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I forgot about it too. I wonder if it might be available "on demand" .

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Welcome back Rascals.

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I agree Baker Aunt on the flops and time limits. I baked a cake from a box mix yesterday that flopped, I underbaked it. A waste of effort. As far as the time limits goes, it seems to punish those who attempt a more complex presentation.

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I just know him from a distance but it's great to hear that he is happy and doing well. One of the worse things that can happen is that you don't have anything to do. He likes to bake and cook so it's great that he can do those things now.

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