22 10 / 2021
Smells Like Grandparents
FREEDOM UNITS
For anyone who’s wondering, from a New Zealander: They taste like caramel/toffee oatmeal cookies with the coconut giving them extra crisp. You can also add raisins or chocolate chips if you’re so inclined.
oooh! have a (different) recipe I encountered in The Great Rare Books Bake-Off 2021, between Monash and Penn State (Monash won haha!).
“Ingredients:
6 ozs. (or 170 grams) butter
¾ cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 cups “John Bull” (or rolled) oats
1 teaspoon treacle or golden syrup or honey
1 level teaspoon carb. soda
2 tablespoons boiling water
Method:
Put butter and treacle together, and melt them
Dissolve soda in the boiling water, and add it to the butter and treacle
Mix flour, oats and sugar together; pour butter and treacle on it
Mix all together, and drop on to a well-greased oven tray, in dessertspoonfuls, leaving a good space between them, as they spread very much.
Bake in a slow oven [160°C/325°F] for 20 to 25 minutes.
Notes for a modern kitchen
Most modern ANZACS use ‘golden syrup’ or ‘light treacle’ rather than heavy treacle.
How an individual likes an ANZAC biscuit comes down to personal taste. Some people like them big, thin and chewy, others like them plump and soft (more like a 'cookie’). What you want to avoid is crunchy and burned. To get the former, make them slightly flatter and bake for a bit longer. To have them more like a cookie, keep them in a ball and bake for less time.“
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I used honey because I didn’t have golden syrup (for shame), and mine ended up kind of cake-y? Might have undercooked them but they were delicious!
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20 8 / 2021
theartofheiding asked:
oh hey what's this language thing you mentioned in your fun facts? :333
Oh hello you <3
We have been building a language from scratch to use in our larp game. It is a passion project spanning many many pages of a google doc with fleshed out grammar, a (almost constructed) pocketbook dictionary, and so many puns
14 6 / 2021
Our Heavenly Space Mom
Recently, I was contacted by some lovely people working on a press anthology on Carrie Fisher which focuses on her role as Princess Leia as well as her writing, her mental health advocacy, and the role of her Leia image in current feminist politics.
They commissioned this lovely piece, inspired by my original portrait Blessed Rebel Queen, to be the cover art for the upcoming anthology Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia (Wayne State University Press). Coming out in October 2021.
It was truly an honour to do this piece, to return to the origins of Blessed Rebel Queen and be reminded why I created that piece in the first place. And today, being Carrie’s birthday, seems the right time to share this piece with all of you
Prints are available on my shopify store: lindsayvanek.myshopify.com
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