Well. I had planned to get some coding done today. But then, after a hearty breakfast at half past eight (don't ask), I got stuck on finally figuring out that orange Skype symbol that bothered me already the whole week. And in the end I really wasn't feeling like coding anyways this morning. Instead I was planning ahead for a proper tea time this afternoon. And for this I need short bread. One could buy the
Walkers things, which are actually quite nice, but somehow they are really expensive. Fear no more, as with the right substances, it is actually easy to make your own:
620 g flour
290 g sugar
290 g starch
500 g (soft) butter
salt (quantity depending on your taste)
Put everything together and knead it until you have a smooth dough. Spread it on a baking tray with baking paper. Now use a fork to make holes in it and then bake it for 30-40 minutes at something like 150 °C. This yields:
Some extra hints: Cut it while it is still hot, don't worry that it doesn't quite taste while it is still hot, be careful when trying to taste it while it is still hot, cut away the borders.
So, my flatmate and me did that before midday, and hence I had something to look forward to in the afternoon. After procrastinating the coding away by working on the LaTeX stylesheets of course: I figured out a way to do side-captions (\usepackage{sidecap}) but it doesn't do what I anticipated it would do for the document (needs more tweaking) and I convinced LaTeX to properly handle non-ASCII characters (
...stjörnur þat ne vissu hvar þær staði áttu.).
Anyhow, during the last two or three months I didn't drink much tea somehow. And hence my stack is still quite full. Time to do something against that:
It looks nice in a closeup, actually.
But be careful to not watch for too long, 3 minutes is the right time for steeping. This particular tea is a Balasun (
SFTGFOP1) and it is not available anymore in the local store, however it seems to be possible to get it from
somewhere else. Concerning Darjeelings, it is probably the one I like the most. And with the fresh short bread, it is just the right thing for a nice afternoon tea:
And yes, the plate the short bread is on is a saucer of the tea cups. However, since I destroyed one cup a few years ago, there is actually one saucer spare. Everything 'falls into place', eventually. Cheers!