Baking Workshop 6/5, Monday Morning

[absolutesnark]

Piper pointed out today's samples as the students arrived. "We're gonna try some foreign cuisine today. You'll be making crepes, which are French. When you finish making them, feel free to add any filling you want to."

She glanced at the various choices sitting on the counter. "We've got strawberries, bananas, chocolate sauce, various jams, etc. You can even add more than one if you feel like it."

"I'll be around, as usual, if you have questions," Piper added, handing each student a list of instructions.


Equipment Needed

Mixing Bowl

Measuring Cups

Measuring Spoons

Frying Pan

Spatula


Ingredients

1 cup flour

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup water

2 eggs

2 tbsp melted butter

2 teaspoons sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla


Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour and the eggs.

Gradually add in the milk and water, stirring to combine.

Add the sugar, vanilla and butter; beat until smooth.

Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium high heat.

Pour the batter into the pan, using approximately 1/4 cup for each crepe.

Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly.

Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown.

Loosen with a spatula, turn and cook the other side.

Add whatever filling you want and then roll them up.


[ooc: ingredients and instructions from here]

Comments

Bake

[absolutesnark]

Make crepes and chat amongst yourselves.

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

The look on Sam's face? Yeah, that's pretty close to terror. She began hunting for a fire extinguisher.

Just in case.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Carter. I think we're doomed now," said Anders, who probably had an identical expression on his face.

And the fire extinguisher she'd given him for Christmas hanging from a loop of string on his belt.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I'm cooking near you today, Anders," Sam decided, setting out her ingredients. "And yeah, I'm gonna go with doomed. Has anyone called the clinic and checked if they're prepared to handle burns?"

Not that she was procrastinating or anything.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Sounds good to me," agreed Anders. "Maybe we should be, like, off to the side or something so people don't get caught in the crossfire or whatever. And yeah, I think the clinic's pretty well equipped for burns. Didn't somebody get half blown up the other week or something? I mean, if they can handle that, they're good to go for anything. Except maybe -- oh frak, pieces of flying exploded frying pan? Maybe we should check."

He wasn't procrastinating either. And he wasn't staring at the frying pan in abject terror. Nope.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam nodded and glanced around the room. "Yes, definitely off to the side." She pointed over towards a corner. "Like over there, maybe? Um, do you think there's cinder block or sandbags or something we should put up? And what about face masks or protective padding?"

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Padding might catch on fire if we get too close to the stove, but I can definitely go with building a bunker or something," said Anders, who'd started hauling ingredients and cooking equipment toward the corner. "No idea where we're gonna get sandbags though. Sacks of flour, maybe, but then nobody else could cook."

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"And that would be bad," Sam decided after gathering her measuring cups, spoons, and spatulas. "We could hike down to the beach and get some sand, maybe?" She suggested hopefully, dumping everything on the counter.

Hey, anything to get her out of the kitchen. Bunkers she understood.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"That'd be a lot of sand," Anders said doubtfully. "It might take us all day."

He was, of course, completely missing the point. He did that a lot.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Sam nodded. "Exactly."

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders sighed and spun one of his eggs around on the countertop, then winced when it spun off the edge and smashed onto the floor. "This is so very much not as easy as cupcakes. Why did we sign up for this again?"

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam sighed and handed him a paper towel. "Because we wanted to conquer the kitchen? Temporary insanity?"

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow stared at the ingredients in front of her.

Yep, that was a look of panic on her face.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders waved in Willow's direction. Only he was waving with a fire extinguisher in hand, so it might have been slightly less than comforting, especially given the manic expression he was sporting himself.

"I totally know the feeling," he said.

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow waved back, though she still looked nervous. "If we set the kitchen on fire nobody would notice the crepes didn't get made, right?"

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders actually gave this some serious thought. Sign of desperation? Perhaps. Then again, it's Anders; he takes everything too seriously, sometimes. "Think we can all make it out on time? 'cause I know there was that whole thing about the snickerdoodles, but I kind of really don't want the cooking and baking to be, you know, students."

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow looked shocked. "Snickerdoodles are made of people??"

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I don't know!" said Anders, who'd developed a slightly greenish tinge. "I heard a rumor about it once, back in the fall or something!"

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"That's awful!" Willow said. "Though now I'm wondering if they taste good in spite of, or because of that."

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I never tried them myself," replied Anders, frowning. "And now I'm all curious."

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"You don't think that's going to be the surprise final class, do you?" Willow asked.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Oh, gods." Anders bit his lip and tangled floury fingers up in his hair. "I hope not. I mean, Piper seems nicer than that . . ."

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I was hoping to do something with goat's blood," Willow said, seriously.

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[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

"Um." Maia said staring at the ingredients list. "You actually trust us with open flames..." Maia glanced around, noting the fire exits and the extinguisher over with Anders, she started to separate out her ingredients. "This is not going to be good."

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[absolutesnark]

Piper noticed Maia's uneasy expression. "Maia, if you need help with the frying pan, please tell me. I don't want you to burn yourself."

Maybe an assignment involving open flames really wasn't a good idea...