Merry Christmas

I will grant you a glimpse under our Christmas tree

However, the smell of these (below) you will have to imagine -

We call it apple bread. But it is nothing like bread -

sorry it is as good as bread and has a gorgeous taste of apples,

walnuts, cinnamon, cloves, cocoa -

You won't actually taste the flour but it is in, too. And it will

keep fresh for weeks - but it won't last so long.

(see end of post for the receipe - if you are interested)

 

With all the rush

one bauble chose to fall down...

but was cleaned away.

I made the cable chain stitches and variations - as taught by

Sharon in TAST stitch 23 on Pintangle

As I wanted to try chicken scratch I made the stitches on gingham

I like the effect of some of the stitches - what they make

with the gingham

For Christmas I thought it was good to stitch a tree -

à la Mary Corbet. (go to her site Needle n'Thread

and you will find more trees)

Finally, dear readers, I wish you a very happy Christmas

and a good and healthy New Year.

Apple bread

 

Receipe:

750 g apples peeled and cleaned and roughly ground or cut and mix together with 200 g sugar.

Leave this standing for several hours or over night

Then mix together with

500 g flour + 2 sachets of soda bicarbonat - Backpulver (2 x 15 g)

250 g raisins

150 g walnuts roughly cut into not to small pieces

Spices: 1 teasp. cinnamon, 1 teasp. pure cocoa, 1 tip of knife ground clover, a pinch of salt

and -- ca. 200 ml apple juice to make a manageable mixture.

Fill into a oblong greased cake tin and bake 1 hour in a 180° preheated oven.

Let it cool down for some time before taking out of the capsule.

 

 

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