Gingerbread house

[xiphias]

So, before Christmas, I made a gingerbread house. I'll post photos at some point after we finish off and develop the roll of film ("film" is a chemically treated sheet of plastic that is photosensitive. In ancient cameras, this chemical process was used to make an image of what was outside the camera, without ever involving any computers or digital information).

We broke into it this morning and are eating it. It is yummy. Gingerbread is one of those foods that doesn't spoil. Because large amounts of sugar and ginger act as a preservative. I like it.

Comments

[vonbeck.livejournal.com]

Still interested in building a gingerbread log cabin?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yes: Lis was suggesting piping the logs -- apparently, you can get pastry bags with half-inch openings -- and then using a popsicle stick or somthing to make the notches. I think that might work. . .

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

Are you placing the piping into grooves? Or are you placing icing on the bread, and using items like toothpicks to make the grooves to give the depth and appearance of logs?

Of course, my original thought of using a router with a jig as shown in New Yankee Workshop to make the notches as you would for drawers, would have been the Tim Allen way of making a gingerbread log house. And to think that people have mistaken me for Richard Karn.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that they're not talking about piping for surface decoration; they're talking about piping (or extruding, if that makes things clearer?) the individual logs themselves, putting notches in then, and assembling the result like Lincoln Logs.

Yet to be in the digital world.

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

As a person who only has an Advantix camera and a 35mm camera I applaud the description of "film". Digital is overrated.

As for gingerbread, don't you get sick from eating too much of it? Ginger snaps are addictive Conspiracy?

Re: Yet to be in the digital world.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten sick yet, but we've only eaten one wall so far.