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Finnish carnivals, foods, revised cookie recipe
Yesterday was Vappen aka Vappu aka Valborgsafton aka Walpurgisnacht (if you go for German), the old pagan springtiemz holiday. As you've probably noticed today is May 1. Finland's mode of celebration involves public drunkenness and wearing white hats (on Vappen) followed by picnics on May Day. (It used to involve bonfires, but I guess we're a little too urban for that these days.) All we did yesterday, actually, was brave the huge hordes downtown to buy groceries and then come home and cook dinner, but my fusilli and mushrooms and broccoli in pesto sauce was a raging success. Also, I performed asocial experiment by making my ( Toll House Cookies ) by the actual teaspoon (like the original recipe said) and not by the tablespoon, 12 vs. 9 to a baking sheet, and although I nearly burned a couple of trays, the ones that came out perfect were a definite improvement.
I want to consolidate comments, like so many oppressor-people now making Dreamwidth their main center of operations. That means comments will be turned off on my posts at livejournal. Livejournal users can comment using their lj identity via OpenID (validate your OpenID email and get
Finnish carnivals, foods, revised cookie recipe
Yesterday was Vappen aka Vappu aka Valborgsafton aka Walpurgisnacht (if you go for German), the old pagan springtiemz holiday. As you've probably noticed today is May 1. Finland's mode of celebration involves public drunkenness and wearing white hats (on Vappen) followed by picnics on May Day. (It used to involve bonfires, but I guess we're a little too urban for that these days.) All we did yesterday, actually, was brave the huge hordes downtown to buy groceries and then come home and cook dinner, but my fusilli and mushrooms and broccoli in pesto sauce was a raging success. Also, I performed a