Cookies, Butter, and Sewing Machine

Brian likes sweets and such on a semi-regular basis, and I thought well I will make cookies, easy, quick, and I have a new recipe I want to try. So I begin to find pans and such that I can use to mix the dough, (We don't have anything here yet) and I realize I have like 1/2 the ingredients I need to make this specific type of cookie, and I really didn't feel like making a different recipe. So I didn't use a recipe at all, I put my cookie book away, and grabbed whatever I thought would make a good cookie, skipping the measurements - because I have no tools of measurement anyway - I made one delicious cookie - which has been dubbed "snuggle cookies".

In other kitchen news, I made butter today. Much to Brian's surprise. (I think he had little faith in me.) He helped, and the finished product is cooling in the fridge. At the rate we use butter I may just make it, as it would probably be cheaper. I will have to see after the milk man delivers next week and I can see how much butter I can make from the fresh milk he brings. Brian just interjected that he did in fact have faith in me, he just didn't know how butter was made. To me that is strange as I've made butter quite often, or at least I did as a child, but I often forget not every child learned how to make bread with just their hands and a bowl, butter from scratch, candles from tallow, soap from lye, and so forth. I guess I never thought of my childhood as all that different from others.

I have a sewing machine again, I bought it off ebay for 15 gbp, roughly $22. It's beautiful and I already have a pile of clothes to mend or hem. Some of Brian's pants are going to become shorts, and some of my clothes have holes. Brian drove all the way to London to pick it up for me, he got lost, but he eventually made it there and back, and he spent a good hour just playing with the machine, much to my dismay...the sound is rather annoying when there is no fabric going through the machine. I wish I could find a fabric store - but I have searched to no avail, and beyond that fabric is RIDICULOUSLY expensive here...at 5gbp a meter for cheap stuff! UG! I think I may have to order fabric online and have it shipped from the states. Although I hope I will soon come across a fabric store in a nearby town.