Notices by Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)

honestly i feel like i made a better movie than this in 3 minutes in iMovie

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cheapest 80s telephone ahoy

they gave those away in malls

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this club has everything

slugs

idiots

fools

more slugs

sewer fires

uh

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the entire town is built on slugs

and 3" of builder-grade topsoil

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we don't want any more time to think about this

if we think about it we might realise what an incredibly bad idea it is

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I wasn't even supposed to BE here today

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Wait, his name's Mike Brady? Is this is where he ended up after he and Carol divorced? Christ, what a comedown!

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sweetened condensed milk is almost a pudding, so it makes more sense when you remember that

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ends up looking rather like frosting once combined

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beating it into butter, by which I mean mixing, which means we’re recombining the milk with a cream which has already been beaten so hard it became a solid

cookies are weird

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two cups. the recipe is very specific: combine with the _handle_ of a spoon. the process gets very strange and I’ll elucidate when it’s in the oven.

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one cup corn starch

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ready for the oven!

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the dough feels like … halfway between pie dough and _play_ dough. very odd.

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Now, what was I saying about the mixing?

Yes. It's an odd combination. It goes from powder and very separate to a slow aggregation of large lumps in centre and very small droplets of dry dough balls on the outside, even stirring around the edge specifically to combine.

But as you keep at it - particularly with some cross-bowl mixing - you see it start to become more of an aggregate, and then it _very quickly and suddenly_ jells together into a heavy, thick combined dough. The transition is startlingly quick once it starts.

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and in we go!

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I'm wondering why a handle, specifically, and am speculating that perhaps it's specifically to mix more slowly, possibly to create this specific effect. It came almost out of nowhere for me, even though I could see it once it started to happen. (It's a _very_ quick changeover.)

At that point, it's not really something you can mix anymore, including with a handle. So you kind of have to stop - and maybe that's why, instead. Maybe using a handle keeps you from overbeating the dough. I don't know.

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Thought about adding vanilla. We'll see if _not_ doing so was a good idea soon.

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tonight on #monsterdon : COOKIES

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corn starch cookies what even are they

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