Friday, March 6, 2009

Interesting stuff...

LSP lesson
We baked some pastry stuff and it looked like tarts. :) Anyway, for the information of everyone, I will just type out the recipe. :D

Shortcrust Pastry
Ingredients:
Pinch of salt
175g plain flour
75g chilled butter / pastry magarine
Cold water

Preparation Method
1) Mix together the flour, salt and magarine with your fingertips until the mixture resembles find breadcrumbs. :)
2) Add water, a tablespoon at a time, until the dough binds together and knead it carefully. (Remember not to add too much water!)
3) Roll it out using a kneading roll (?) until it is about 0.5cm thick.
4) Use a metal shape thingy to cut out the shape. Diameter of the metal thingy should be about 4-5cm to make about 13 tarts.
5) Roll out the circle dough a little.
6) Place it in the muffin paper (used to hold muffins). Spread it around. Use a fork to poke some holes in it.
7) Put jam or custard in the middle of the dough. (Yummy!)
8) Toast it until the jam or custard starts to bubble. Let it 'boil' for about 5 mins.
9) Let it cool. :)

Ta-da! The 'tarts' are done. To let you have a better picture of what it might be like, please see the pictures below. These pictures are taken from the 1Kellyx blog as I never took any. (Thanks, Nicole (Gan) for providing the pictures! :D)

Other group's result

Miss Kiw's pastries



Interesting reptile
While walking back from softball today, we(Jingwen, Nicole wooi and I) saw a strange looking reptile from afar, the bridge across the Kallang River. We were so fascinated as the reptile looked really unusually big and there was another small little creature behind it! The small creature looked like a turtle or terrapin. We scurried down to catch a glimpse of it. But it was too late, it had hidden under the shelter where we cannot see it. We even tried throwing rocks at the water to make it come out. Plan failed. :( Jingwen then said that she saw a humming bird fly away when she went near the river. She also managed to catch a glimpse of the mysterious reptile. At least she did! I didn't! :'( And it was really interesting...
On the way home, we catch sight of a yellow bird, which I think is called a booboo bird??? Anyway, I took a picture of it. But the bird was soooo small that it only a tiny speck on my picture. I zoomed in and it was totally blur. Nevertheless, I am going to post it just for fun. :)

Can you find the yellow bird?

There! Haha x)


Cute Mushrooms
This was taken when there was softball. Jingwen and I are not sure whether it is a mushroom but it is the size of a tennis ball!


These mushrooms were taken at my grandma's house. Kawaii~ especially the white ones. They are as tiny as your ten cent coin. Maybe five cent!







~recalling all the wonderful memories

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