Storrmmee > wrote:
: this should probably a new thread, but i am just too tired, for those of you
: with a big monster mixer, what do you have, and why? i have been looking at
: the "arts/aides" as dh now calls them and i simply am overwhelemed.

: Lee

I still have a 15 year old Kitchen Aid 4 1/2 qt stand mixer tht is now
their smallest model in the country. I use t not often, but for the whole
weat, spiced challah I bake for the jewish New Year's holidays. I make
about 8 or 9 fairly small loaves of the snail like specially shaped bread
from a recipe that is supposed to make 2 loaves. In this way, when I
serve oit , whole for ritual purposes, at a holiday dinner I have no
left-overs to temp me the next morning:-) I also annually make a double
recipe of a honey cake, 2 loaves for the annual local hospital
fund-raising fair and 2 for the Holidays. actually, I did not make it
this year, but Syd especially loved this so I would make it for him.
Unfortunatly, no need for it now:-( In the city I have a heavy duty hand
mixer I use to make my Channuka candle cookies with my grandkids, just
part of the family tradition. It is fun to see how the hand rolled cookie
shapes improve with each year for each kid, lumpy bumps at 2 and 3, and
graceful long ones by 8 or 9, then they get to decorate them.

Wendy