PART 2 mmmEnglish Making Baking at Christmas
now in this busy week I’ve also managed
to catch up with a few friends who have
been preparing delicious Christmas gifts
for their friends and family this is Mel
and Jess so we’re going to make the
gingerbread first and then decorate them
and get them packaged up in nice little
presents for all of our friends Mel what
are you doing I’m about to separate the
eggs I’m going to separate the white
from the yolk so I can use the yolk in
the gingerbread like two cracker on a
flat surface just doesn’t doesn’t
shatter that’s a good tip I’m going to
put this aside yeah so we use the whole
egg there’s no waste so that’s in there
with what’s in there with the creamed
butter and sugar
and Jessica they go
smells good so then roll out the
gingerbread dough with a rolling pin it
should be about half a centimeter thick
we’re making Christmas trees and stars
out of gingerbread for Christmas
presents for our friends quite nice to
give a sweet treat to a friend just pop
and after about 20 minutes take them out
when they start to look golden let’s
lift them off the tray onto a wire tray
to let them cool then to make the icing
add icing sugar and the egg white
together and mix or whisk together to
get the right consistency add extra
icing sugar then it’s time for
decorating so you can add colors to the
icing so we’ve got green red and white
colored icing and we’re using small bags
that you can seal with the tiniest hole
cut in the corner to squeeze out the
icing and carefully decorate them
this is Helen and Diane what are you
making we are making Christmas mince
pies how long have you been making them
Oh about Silvius and following on from
my mother so we like them to give up to
us and make about 20 dozen in one day
and then we keep them away as our gifts
what’s in the midst iron this is made of
dried fruit a variety of dried fruit and
there’s some grated apple in there as
well lots of brandy and it’s that you do
use to it which is the fat come around
the kidneys of cow which makes it very
luxe so they’re filling each cake tin
with a small amount of pastry and a
spoonful of the minced fruit and then
covering it with a lid of pastry then
making a small hole in the top before
baking them in the oven when they’re
done let them cool on a wire rack and
then enjoy your delicious fruit mince
pies and lastly Christmas bacon hey sure
what are you doing I’m just making
Christmas presents I like making bacon
for people at
Stein so what I’m doing at the moment is
I’ve got these pieces of pork which have
been salted so I’m turning them into
bacon and what I’ve got to do is hang
them in my smoking cabinet and add some
nice smoky flavor to them so just got to
use this string and string them up you
can watch if you like
yeah people love bacon really
and the bacon that I make is really
really good so I like to give people
bacon as a Christmas present because
it’s nice to get something from that
somebody’s made rather than just
something that they bought in the shops
so this is something that I like to make
most people don’t actually know where
bacon comes from or like how it’s made
you just sort of buy it in a packet so I
think it’s nice for people to see and
you know kind of go try to think wow
that’s amazing that you actually made
that because I’m so used to just you
know buying it in a shop so yeah my
little thing I mean some people make
jams or they make cakes or they make all
sorts of other things as Christmas gifts
I’m a guy I’m a guy and I like making
bacon for people that weird
it’s going to be really good though
thanks guys
there is nothing more special than
getting a homemade Christmas gift I hope
I’ve given you a couple of small ideas
if you need to make something in the
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if you’re celebrating Christmas Merry
Christmas I hope you have a wonderful
day if you don’t celebrate Christmas
have a great weekend anyway and I will
see you next Thursday with another
english-language video bye for now