Received our first care package today! Thanks Nan! She sent us soda crackers, kraft dinner, macaroni, chez whiz, molasses, and onion soup mix. Yay! Normal food! Well, if you can call Chez Whiz and KD normal! But who cares, it takes like home and that's all that matters. I was so excited. I'm gonna bake me some ginger cookies with the molasses! Sweet!
Oh, the oven. Let me tell you about our wonderful LITTLE oven. Firstly, the oven/stove are called the cooker and/or hob here. You may be able to cook a small chicken leg in this thing. I believe our BBQ will actually hold more. Secondly, it's in Celsius. This is interesting. It's like driving a car in Canada in Miles without the KM gauge - how do you know how fast you're going? How do I know what heat to put this thing on if my recipe is in Fahrenheit? Thank God for Daws Hill! On our In Clearance they provided us with a handy dandy book of various things that are different from Canada and what the equivalent is here. Fabulous! In this book is a conversion between Celcius and Farenheit. I'm off to the races...
Now for some baking. Third observation, the cookie sheet will NOT fit in the oven. Not sideways, frontways (that a word?), upside down, I don't think it would even fit if it was folded. No problem. I'll use the pizza pans. Fourth observation which I had observed before but must put this into perspective for you...the oven does not have an element on the top and the bottom, no it's on the sides! Well! What a brilliant idea! I can bake and have the sides of everything black and the top and bottom doughy! This inventor was a genius. Sure enough, cookies begin to burn on the sides and are not cooking on the bottom. So I'll rotate the pan every few minutes as these cookies are suppose to bake for only 7. 10 minutes later and several rotations, it's time to take the cookies out as they are getting too dark. In this instance, black does not mean cooked. They are totally doughy on the bottom. So that's how we'll eat'em I guess. Yum! What a fantastic experience. I can't wait for the next adventure. The unfortunate thing is I love to bake and now that love may quickly fade.
After several doughy cookies and glasses of milk, it's time for bed.
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