Quire fundraiser upcoming
Mar. 10th, 2014 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetThe Quire (of which I am a singing member) is having a fundraiser on the 22nd. The Quire itself is singing two songs, and then we've got a bunch of acts between them. We're hosting a silent auction (I'm offering a flying pig, with optional flying piglets for every $5 donated over a certain amount to help boost the bids) and hosting snacks, which is the part that most of this entry is dedicated to.
Mom has commissioned me to make some French bread loaves on her behalf, so she doesn't have to make anything, and also volunteered me for snack commissions to the Quire as a whole. (Good thing I don't have many requests 9_9a)
For my own contribution, I've decided to make sausage hedgehogs. I got the recipe from a friend, who got it out of a medieval recipe book and highly recommends it. I was thinking of making a vegetarian version for one of my commissions, and my only working idea so far was something like cheeseball hedgehogs (same design, but cheeseball instead of sausage). I'd love to make a vegan version (suggestions for non-sausage/cheese options welcome!), but am comforted by the fact that the bread I'll be making will definitely be vegan, so there's that. And then the hedgehogs are gluten-free, so between those options I should have something for most people.
My current problem is that I also thought I'd try some sort of "cooking" show for the volunteer entertainment portion. I've got permission to use the oven in the facilities we're using, I just need to narrow down/edit a recipe to use. The sausage hedgehogs would probably be the most straightforward, but ideally I'd like to include a recipe I could hand out as well, and while the recipe itself is medieval, I'm not sure the current copyright has expired yet :P I'd also really love to do something bread or pastry related, because that's what my degree is in. While the hedgehogs do involve baking (well, not the cheese ones, I imagine - unless they will? IDK), I picture them as more culinary.
Another option is my traditional gluten-free peanut butter cookies. I always worry about peanut allergies, though, and to be quite frank I don't care much for the smell of baking peanuts, in butter form or otherwise. I could spring for another form of nut butter (pistachio would be cool, because naturally green nut cookies, woo!), but I haven't actually tried any other nut butter in these recipes except for sunflower seed butter the one time, and those were kinda flat. Moreso than usual, even.
I'd love to do a yeast bread somehow. I can probably talk to whoever's doing scheduling about getting multiple short entries between other acts. Maybe I can modify this recipe to fit the time allowance somehow? On the other hand, I know how it is for beginning bakers (or any kind of cook - or any kind of anyone following directions for the first time) and nonspecific directions. Maybe I'll find something if I dig through enough of my recipes.
(Suggestions welcome.)
Mom has commissioned me to make some French bread loaves on her behalf, so she doesn't have to make anything, and also volunteered me for snack commissions to the Quire as a whole. (Good thing I don't have many requests 9_9a)
For my own contribution, I've decided to make sausage hedgehogs. I got the recipe from a friend, who got it out of a medieval recipe book and highly recommends it. I was thinking of making a vegetarian version for one of my commissions, and my only working idea so far was something like cheeseball hedgehogs (same design, but cheeseball instead of sausage). I'd love to make a vegan version (suggestions for non-sausage/cheese options welcome!), but am comforted by the fact that the bread I'll be making will definitely be vegan, so there's that. And then the hedgehogs are gluten-free, so between those options I should have something for most people.
My current problem is that I also thought I'd try some sort of "cooking" show for the volunteer entertainment portion. I've got permission to use the oven in the facilities we're using, I just need to narrow down/edit a recipe to use. The sausage hedgehogs would probably be the most straightforward, but ideally I'd like to include a recipe I could hand out as well, and while the recipe itself is medieval, I'm not sure the current copyright has expired yet :P I'd also really love to do something bread or pastry related, because that's what my degree is in. While the hedgehogs do involve baking (well, not the cheese ones, I imagine - unless they will? IDK), I picture them as more culinary.
Another option is my traditional gluten-free peanut butter cookies. I always worry about peanut allergies, though, and to be quite frank I don't care much for the smell of baking peanuts, in butter form or otherwise. I could spring for another form of nut butter (pistachio would be cool, because naturally green nut cookies, woo!), but I haven't actually tried any other nut butter in these recipes except for sunflower seed butter the one time, and those were kinda flat. Moreso than usual, even.
I'd love to do a yeast bread somehow. I can probably talk to whoever's doing scheduling about getting multiple short entries between other acts. Maybe I can modify this recipe to fit the time allowance somehow? On the other hand, I know how it is for beginning bakers (or any kind of cook - or any kind of anyone following directions for the first time) and nonspecific directions. Maybe I'll find something if I dig through enough of my recipes.
(Suggestions welcome.)
