Food & Home 26 May 2008 11:19 pm
chickens; cinnamon rolls
Chicken content lives over at our new household blog, House of Cranks. This evening, Josh videotaped the chicks playing “capture the flag” with a piece of paper towel. They’ve been a delight.
I think I’ve finally got a fix for the minor problem I’ve been having with my homemade cinnamon rolls. There’s so much cinnamon in the filling that sometimes its consistency seems to me to be slightly on the powdery side. Well, between batches 1 and 2 yesterday, I ran out of ground cinnamon and had to grind my own. The second batch was noticeably better than the first, and I think it’s mostly because the home-ground cinnamon particles were a bit larger. I should try to replicate these results very soon.
And so, a question about freezing rolls. Do you find that it’s best to freeze them after baking them fully, after baking them partly, or before baking them at all?
on 26 May 2008 at 11:48 pm 1.Barnaby (Ilmarinen) said …
Our rolls (well, my mom’s) would never survive long enough to be frozen . . .
It’s been forever since I made rolls. hrmmm
-B.
on 27 May 2008 at 1:33 am 2.Karen said …
Before baking them at all. No question.
I find that by taking an arbitrary cinnamon roll recipe, and replacing the brown sugar & cinnamon with asiago cheese & rosemary, I can sometimes make the resulting pastries get eaten even faster.
on 27 May 2008 at 11:31 am 3.Rechercher said …
Can you create a name for your RSS feed in lj so I can subscribe to it? (Yeah, I know, I’m too cheap (cheep?) to make my journal a paid account.)
on 27 May 2008 at 12:16 pm 4.Cam Sculpin said …
Sorry, Rechercher — only Paid and Permanent LJ account holders can create syndicated accounts there, and I’m not about to give LJ any money. If you mean houseofcranks.com’s RSS feed, though, I’ll talk to Josh about mirroring its content on an LJ account the same way the content here is mirrored.
Have you considered other RSS readers? I use Google Reader, and it’s been pretty great.
on 27 May 2008 at 12:48 pm 5.Amanda said …
I just did an LJ feed for House of Cranks, just called houseofcranks there.
I got a permanent account ages ago, before they started sucking so much.
on 27 May 2008 at 1:07 pm 6.Cam Sculpin said …
Whoo! Thanks, Amanda!