Baking Day.

I have shared this recipe on here years ago but as I am making it again today I will put it up again.  You will need... 1 large washed orange.

 Cut up like this to check there are no pips.

 All I discarded as it had no pips was the stalk and one tiny brown mark.

 I use the large size shown here sat inside a metal patty pan.

 They turned out aromatic and yummy as usual.

Here is the recipe:

 Prepared in a kitchen Whiz. Makes 12 big muffins.

 Pre heat oven to 200 degrees.

 1. Whiz together 110 grams of butter and 1/2 a cup of sugar.

 2.Add 1 large egg and whiz again.

3. Put in your cut up orange ( skin pith and all ) and whiz again.

4. add 1/2 a cup of roughly chopped dates and whiz again.

 In another bowl sift together 1 1/2 cups of standard flour with 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1 of baking soda and a pinch of salt.

 Add contents of whiz to dry ingredients. Stir in, then add 1/2 cup of milk. Mix.

Spoon into paper cases. ( mix is fairly wet ) 

 cook 20 minutes at 200 till tops lightly brown. Cool. (leave in cases till you want to use them. 

They freeze well.  Enjoy.

Knitting Progress.

 

 I am knitting elder grandson a cricket vest. He is going to be playing for a different team and these are the club colours. I like to do the front and back at the same time row by row.

 You can see the pattern of cables better here half way across the row.

It's a Very very old traditional pattern and I had trouble finding a pattern. Got one on Etsy in the end. I found the instructions hard to follow on the increase row but once I got the pattern rows established I don't need a pattern, the previous rows tell me where to knit and where to purl.

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 Why was I weighing them? The balls in use should have run out at roughly the same time....and they didn't.  4 x 50gram balls should have weighed 200 grams!

 Do you keep a record of your work ? I do in this large notebook. Only started it when I got Grandchildren to knit for. It's invaluable to me.

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Outside today I noticed the 1st "real"  daffodils coming into flower.

 Another bright spot in the Winter light.

 Also in bud are my 2 NZ native Kakabeak plants.

It did get Finished.

 

 What a time waster that puzzle was. I got there in the end. 1500 pieces is too much for me to cope with on my own. ( The new mat worked well for working on ) 

 Meanwhile I did have a short walk on a different beach one day when we met up with R's brother and wife for lunch at a halfway point for us both.

 Waihi beach was very low and had so many small shells.

 this has just finished flowering. Its very old now.

 I have been out to a birthday lunch and had coffee with a cousin but didn't take any photos.

 Quite a heavy frost here today and yesterday. Lovely sunshine now though.

 I just made mayonnaise but now my 'To Do'  List says vacuuming and get on with your knitting so nothing exciting happening here. Thanks for those who replied by email to me or left a comment.