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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

I'm leaning on the keyboard and the whole post disappears!!!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! I leaned on the keyboard and the whole post disappeared. Serves me right for not typing it in Word first but I thought it would be OK. Now I am too cross to type the whole thing again.
  1. Saw Karen's dad, gave him chocolate eclairs with real cream , he gave me the 2 different green waterproof mascaras Karen had sent.
  2. Sewed all but the side seams and top of 2 curtains for Karen, lots of straight sewing, not hard but there were voluminous amounts of fabric.
  3. Have been hibernating and sleeping in 4 and 5 hour naps every day.
  4. Labradors had a lovely swim, Harki is playful and Peri is full of beans!!
  5. Off to lunch with Janette.
  6. Brendan Nelson the Federal Minister for Education is mooting a country wide end of year 12 test. This is moronic as there is no common curriculum and so the test would have to be like the American SATs. No-one except him wants it. There are already Commonwealth tests for Literacy and Numeracy in years 1,3,5,7,9 and 11. There is also moderation, so, in a very bad example that has no basis in the real scores!! an 80 score inTasmania is worth 91 in NSW.

Right, a tiny summary of my writing and now the recipe!!!

A White Chocolate Mud Cake

250 g butter
180 g white chocolate
330 g caster sugar
180 ml milk
300 g plain flour
1 tspn baking powder
½ tspn vanilla extract
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 160 C ( 140 ff) and grease and line a 20cm tin. Melt butter, chocolate, sugar and milk, stirring till dissolved and cool. Sift in dry ingredients and mix in eggs and vanilla. Bake for about 90-100 minutes, cool in tin.Ice with white chocolate ganache, 125 ml cream and 360 g white chocolate gently melted and cooled till of spreading consistency.