thanks, what wonderful memories, Lee
"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> 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