We are aproaching a special time of year.
A time of celebration in different ways for the different primates.
However, to the Tabejin it is a time of great feasts. All this week I will be bringing you my preparations for this feast. (hopefully some pics too)
Day 1:
The sugar cookie dough.
I must warn you that I have taken to living high atop the peaks of Mount Curry. As such, baking recipes have taken on several alterations from those created near the sea. Most often, it is more flour and water/oil/milk.
Being that todays recipe was CREATED at these heights, I will not vouch for it's effectiveness at sea level.
I also highly recommend a bread mixer or you will burn through blenders like mad.
Now, the recipe for one batch is straight and simple:
4 cups flour, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt. Sift all that together, and cut in 1 cup of butter or shortening....
Hold it right there. No self respecting tabejin would be using SHORTENING!
BUTTER PEOPLE!
REAL BUTTER!!!
Then add 2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla and 1/2 cup of milk. While we're at it, that's WHOLE MILK people!
You can't call yourself Tabejin by trying to pass off that watered down 'low fat' stuff as milk.
Chill dough for 8 hours before rolling cutting and baking. Bake at 375 for 10-12 min.
Yeah simple. However, this is the tabejin we are talking about here!
Now, the first thing you need to realize is that for most of you, this will probably make 5 dozen or more. Yeah, that's about right for little crackers some of you call cookies. However, to a Tabejin a 'cookie' needs to be a half inch thick and the size of a hand at least. I'm lucky to squeeze 3 dozen out of a single batch. And that
may feed 3 Tabejin.
That is why I am making 4 batches.
Now, 4 batches becomes tricky unless you have a VERY large bread mixer. I however, do not, and can only mix 1 batch at a time.
You ever watch those cooking shows?
Notice how they just dump those little bowls into the mix?
I measure out everything into 4 seperate bowls, mix the eggs, milk and vanilla into 4 cups, and then make them all one at a time.
Tomorrow: we go shopping for Nuts and Bolts.
We are watching very closely.
what will I have for dinner tomorrow....sausages, monkeys or whale..... 
