Things
Apr. 17th, 2025 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vassBooks
Still reading Freya Marske's A Restless Truth.
Gave Maxine Beneba Clarke's poetry book How Decent People Behave a go, but so far it hasn't grabbed me. I'll give it another try before I return it to the library.
Food
Made a second attempt at making ice cream met. The first attempt wouldn't freeze properly. I had made the fatal Just A Few Alterations to the recipe.
My hypothesis was that in fact it wasn't my alterations but rather that the custard wasn't chilled enough. I found a product review from someone claiming it needed to be chilled not "in fridge for 4-6 hours" as the manual claims, but in the freezer until "chunks start to form".
I intended to test this hypothesis by making the basic vanilla recipe from the manual the ice cream machine came with, without alterations. But I was out of caster sugar and vanilla and didn't want to wait, so I swapped in brown sugar and cinnamon.
Success: perfectly cromulent ice cream. A little bit too rich, maybe, but definitely acceptable.
Links
Still reading Freya Marske's A Restless Truth.
Gave Maxine Beneba Clarke's poetry book How Decent People Behave a go, but so far it hasn't grabbed me. I'll give it another try before I return it to the library.
Food
Made a second attempt at making ice cream met. The first attempt wouldn't freeze properly. I had made the fatal Just A Few Alterations to the recipe.
My hypothesis was that in fact it wasn't my alterations but rather that the custard wasn't chilled enough. I found a product review from someone claiming it needed to be chilled not "in fridge for 4-6 hours" as the manual claims, but in the freezer until "chunks start to form".
I intended to test this hypothesis by making the basic vanilla recipe from the manual the ice cream machine came with, without alterations. But I was out of caster sugar and vanilla and didn't want to wait, so I swapped in brown sugar and cinnamon.
Success: perfectly cromulent ice cream. A little bit too rich, maybe, but definitely acceptable.
Links
- via rydra_wong, US politics phone scripts
- UK heritage crafts at risk of extinction
- Community colleges are facing a wave of bots registering for class to steal financial aid.
- Hannah Montana Linux, a (old and I don't think it's been updated in a very long time, so be careful if you want to actually install it) Hannah Montana themed Linux distribution
