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@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dominica made scones and homemade clotted cream!

what is clotted cream?

Popular dairy item in England. It's a thick reduced cream.

Surprisingly, there wasn't an Urban Dictionary definition of clotted cream.

Dashrender

for some reason I never think to look at Urban Dictionary.

scottalanmiller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotted_cream

We first had it in England and fell in love with it. Very hard to find in the States. Better to just make it yourself.

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Just waking up here.

bah. been up 4 hours now

In my defense, was working till 3am.

yes you are working:)
@hubtech maybe you can share with us the beautiful garden soon

Here ya go

scottalanmiller

It is way too quiet around here. Both here and some other communities are nearly silent. Maybe it is the two days of rain in the northeast that is doing it.

lillucia

mmm. My boss is off sick, but my to-do list is about 2k long... and I'm reading old BOFH episodes!
I'm not good at working on my own in a quiet office unless there's some urgent deadline to really get me going.
But there's SOOOO much to do...... grr.

scottalanmiller

Watching the original Star Trek with the family here. My two year old says that she loves it.

lance

Just bought a new KitchenAid mixer and I'm looking for suggestions on what should be my first endeavor.

lillucia

@lance hmmm.
Cookies
Cheesecake
What do you like to eat? I'm a sweet tooth kinda person...

lance

@lillucia said:

@lance hmmm.
Cookies
Cheesecake
What do you like to eat? I'm a sweet tooth kinda person...

I eat almost anything. I was thinking of making a bunch of double chocolate chip muffins. The cheesecake idea sounds great though!

scottalanmiller

@dominica made amazing scones today in hers.

lillucia

@lance Try this one - ate it yesterday. Light enough that I think I could eat about three servings without too much difficulty.
We serve it with icecream & homemade berry sauce (just thaw the berries and thicken the juice with some icing sugar/cornflour).
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23435/cookies+n+cream+cheesecake

lance

@scottalanmiller said:

@dominica made amazing scones today in hers.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dominica made amazing scones today in hers.

I love scones! Chocolate chip scones could be the death of me.

lance

@lillucia I'll have to try it out. It looks great!

scottalanmiller

@lance said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dominica made amazing scones today in hers.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dominica made amazing scones today in hers.

I love scones! Chocolate chip scones could be the death of me.

I can't do chocolate chips baked into bread. Just don't like them. Like both separate, just not together.

Dominica did strawberry ones today. SO GOOD.

Dominica

@lance Chocolate chip cookies are like magic in the Kitchen Aid. They come together so quickly and with no effort, and the mixer makes it so easy to cream the butter and sugar the proper amount for perfectly textured cookies, which is so important as per Alton Brown.

lance

@Dominica said:

@lance Chocolate chip cookies are like magic in the Kitchen Aid. They come together so quickly and with no effort, and the mixer makes it so easy to cream the butter and sugar the proper amount for perfectly textured cookies, which is so important as per Alton Brown.

Maybe the cookies might be a good place to start, as this is my first real mixer and I'm some what new to baking.

Dominica

Clotted cream with simple cream scones

Dominica

Strawberries and cream scones

@lance said:

Just bought a new KitchenAid mixer and I'm looking for suggestions on what should be my first endeavor.

get the meat grinder and make sausage!