OMG, thank you. I’ve never heard of this, but I’m gonna listen to it in full. The first :30 put me in mind of Adam Sandler’s The Hanukkah Song.
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You’re most welcome. There’s lots of voices on there you might recognize…especially that of Valerie “Rhoda” Harper who is highlighted in the specific cut I posted separately.
I LOL’d.
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If anyone would it would be Tom Lehrer, future professor of mathematics!
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Yet to be determined what degree of “failure” this will be. I Intended to make bread machine cinnamon rolls today for tomorrow’s breakfast. I’ve not used the machine often these past years, usually making no-knead breads from Bread Toast Crumbs on the rare occasions I make them myself. Today, with all ingredients carefully measured into the bread pan, I selected “dough” and got error E07. Other settings when chosen, whether before or after unplugging the machine or repositioning the bread pan, get the same error. My handy in-house degreed electrical engineer is dis-assembling the machine now, checking for the classic bad-capacitor problems, common in everything electronic from that era. Plan C if the repair can’t be done within an hour, is to use a mixer/spoon for the dough and knead by hand. And final fall-back is to start over with a BTC recipe.
Stay tuned…
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Success! The machine is unrepairable, so I ended up using my mixer to combine the dough and then hand kneading (about 5 minutes, more than 150 turns) and patience for rise times - 1.5 hours for first rise, then an hour in the pan before baking after the dough was filled, rolled up and sliced. I used half the frosting and could have done with just a drizzle. The rolls are deliciously sweet and have a tender texture. Another time I’ll put only 12 rolls in the 9x13 pan and use an 8x8 or similar for the other 4 rolls; I put the 2 smaller end rolls in a separate pan for “quality control” taste-testing. But the 14 rolls in the 9x13 pan got crowded into uneven sizes.
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Where do I sign up for this job? 
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We can talk… 
Are you willing to brave January in MN snow and cold?
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The rest of the story… a Craigslist find is a late-Christmas-Day present today. A new (box opened but never baked with) [Hamilton Beach Home Baker 29882]. Similar size to my old one so it will fit in cabinet. But has a really short power cord (less than 2 feet) so needs an extension cord from the spot I have to use it on countertop Black, with a window in the lid so you can watch the magic. First loaf is baking now.
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Not ugly nor confectionery, but I made my first attempt at eggnog, and it was terrible. Do not use heavy cream powder in eggnog. It will not be good right away, and it will not be good the next day, either. It will just not be good.
I drank it, of course. I’m not letting that brandy go to waste.
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I had an incredible homemade egg nog a zillion years ago. The person who made it spent hours making it and at the party she held, the neighbor’s refrigerators held gallon jugs in reserve. Everyone kept drinking it up. I finally convinced her to share (key word, ‘share’) the recipe. I felt so privileged! When I went to make it, following the recipe to ‘T’, it was terrible. I’ve not had anything like that first eggnog, since. I suspect the receipe had been altered, and the creator was not completely honest in sharing. Oh well, there was one good Yuletide memory that came out of the experience.
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I used Kenji Lopez-Alt’s recipe, and I’m sure it’s very good if you make it correctly, unlike me.
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I’ll have to look up his recipe. I’ve seen cream of coconut creams used, but never even thought of going that route.
i might be posting to this thread soon as the meyer lemon tart i have in the oven looks like it might be a fail.
I made eggnog using Ruhlman’s recipe. I cut the liquor in half and it was still too strong for me so I had to add cream in order to drink it. And I drink gin on the rocks. Other than that it was pretty good.
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