Today was a standard push...
But after all the bread was done being baked we got stuck
onto decorating the gingerbread houses. Mr Pozzoli coated the roofs with
chocolate and then sprinkled some hail sugar down the sides, then Alexandre and
Alex piped on some royal icing which is 6 parts icing sugar to 1 part egg
whites. Looks almost like meringue but it’s more like a grainy paste texture.
We made a crap load of the base and then mixed small amounts of green and red
icing as well. So Alex and Alexandre did the edge of the roofs, chimneys and ledge,
making it looks like the snow was built up.
Afterwards we put little mushrooms and Santa Clauses on
which were made of jellies and icing! I piped on vines and leaves and then
little red berries. We had a nice production line going and we were literally
on our knees sometimes in order to get the icing on.
They also made “longhopf” which is a sort of Austrian
brioche with rum-soaked raisins, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts and specific
alsacean spices. It’s baked in a clay mould and afterwards is brushed with
melted butter and dusted in cinnamon brown sugar. Looks sick! Mmm I wish is
could stay to still see all of the products that get produced but I’m already
looking forward to coming home.
I found Bonnie playing with a small mouse in the afternoon.
The poor thing’s heart was beating so fast and you could see that it was almost
dead. But Bonnie would just chase it then pick it up in her mouth and then play
with it again. So is did what is thought was best and killed the mouse. It was
pretty gruesome as when I stepped on it, crushed everything and I felt a bit
bad but at least it was a quick, albeit brutal death.
It’s still super cold as well...my heater is on permanently J
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