Wow. It has been forever since I have used that phrase. "y'all" doesn't exactly translate into French, such a pity. At the moment I feel a little bit like a couch potato ... and not in the good way. I actually got myself to fall asleep last night by thinking about talking a long walk in the huge beautiful park that is around the corner from my house. Yesterday was the start of two weeks of blessed vacation from school and I immediately snapped into the laziest person in the world. Not too good.
Fast forward a little bit. It is now the evening and no, I never did take that walk. Maybe, tomorrrow. :) I did however have my very first baking lesson in France! Yay! I made "Tarte au sucre". So good and it is exactly what it sounds like, a sugar tart. Who wouldn't love that.
Step 1: mix together 250 grams of flower, two tablespoons of sugar and a pinch of salt
Step 2: in a separate bowl beat together two eggs
Step 3: melt 75 grams of butter
step 4: heat up some milk and then mix in something or other to the milk that is supposed to help the pastry dough rise
step 5: (here is the very complicated part) add the eggs to the dry ingredients and mix with the hands, add the butter and continue to mix and clump, add the milk mixture and knead until everything is nice and together
step 6: spread with the palm of your hand (onto a round backing sheet covered with wax paper) the dough until it is fairly even and then let it rise for an hour ish
step 7: cover the entire thing in some kind of specialty sugar that is light brown and a really soft texture
step 8: bake for 10 minutes at 150 degrees
step 9: pour cream fresh on top of the sugar
step 10: ta da!!! tarte au sucre!
Now, I know, that is just a very, very complicated recipe, especially with my not knowing the exact measurements or amounts of time or you know, the names of certain ingredients, but hey I wanted to share :) And that is what happens when one is learning how to cook in a foreign language.
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