I've taken the turkey breast out of the fridge to make sure it really is thawed by this afternoon. Prepared the jelly for the top of the cheesecake, it should be almost cool enough to pour on top now.
Today's outfit is all red including my tights
But there is a hole in my tights! Should I switch to a new pair? But they will be black or dark blue. Or should I just refresh the nail varnish on that toe?
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Christmas dinner went well despite a bit of a hiccup with the turkey. I somehow set the oven timer wrong so it switched off early. Had to turn it back on and add half an hour to the cooking time! And that meant that some of the vegetables were cooked a little longer than intended and the turkey looked like a bad car accident after I'd tried slicing the meat but everyone enjoyed the meal nonetheless.
And the stollen was almost as good as a bought one. The only thing that didn't work properly is the icing sugar coating. I don't know how the commercial ones make a thick layer of icing sugar stick and how they prevent colour from the fruit in the cake bleeding through the sugar. But apart from that I was very pleased with it.
@ninalanyon I love stollen but never made it myself. I’ve seen in a documentary that they put hot, melted butter on top of the stollen before they let snow down the icing sugar.
@Rickichickie The recipe I used said that and I did it but it didn't seem to help. Still it looked pretty close to the ones I've bought in the past so I'm not too bothered really. Perhaps I should search YouTube for a video on the subject and see if they do anything special.
@ninalanyon Thanks for the link. That differs a little from the German language recipe I used. Mine says brush with butter and sprinkle with regular sugar and then icing sugar whereas yours only uses icing sugar.
Die Butter schmelzen. Den fertigen Stollen aus dem Ofen holen und evtl. verbrannte Rosinen entfernen. Stollen noch heiß mehrfach mit der Butter bestreichen. Zunächst mit dem normalen Zucker bestreuen. Komplett abkühlen lassen, überschüssigen Zucker mit einem Löffel o.ä. etwas entfernen. Zuletzt den Puderzucker darüber sieben.
Which Google Translate rendered as (I can only read a few words of technical German and recognize the words that English, Norwegian, and German have in common)
Melt the butter. Remove the baked stollen from the oven and discard any burnt raisins. While still hot, brush the stollen several times with the melted butter. Sprinkle with regular sugar. Let it cool completely, then remove any excess sugar with a spoon or similar utensil. Finally, sift the powdered sugar over the top.
See https://www.backenmachtgluecklich.de/rezepte/christstollen.html#wprm-recipe-container-413768
@Rickichickie No, no, I don't speak it. It's just that the two languages I do speak (English and Norwegian) have a lot of vocabulary and etymology in common with German. So I can make out words like schmelzen = melted, fertigen = ferdig = finished, verbrannte = brent = burnt, normalen = normal (in both English and Norwegian), Zucker = sukker = sugar, bestreuen = strew = strø, abkhulen = kjøle = cool, Puderzucker = powdered sugar = icing sugar = melis, mit = med = with, einem = ein = an
Some I recognize after seeing the translation. So entfernen = fjerne = remove seems obvious now but I didn't catch it on my own.
