{"id":12160,"date":"2019-12-15T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:35:44","slug":"daily_1804_-_making_christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/12\/15\/daily_1804_-_making_christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1804 &#8211; making Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_tree_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_tree_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nIngrid and Adrian decorated the Christmas tree today. This year&#8217;s tree is a fir again, which goes counter to tradition and instinct but looks better and sheds less.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, the kids made gingerbread houses with Eric&#8217;s help. There are ready-made kits you can buy, but this year they&#8217;re making them almost from scratch. (But using store-bought dough, because by the time we eat them they will be dry and dusty and using home-made dough would feel like a bit of a waste.) This way we can make much smaller houses, so it&#8217;s conceivable that we might actually eat them.<\/p>\n<p>The supermarket had something called &#8220;baking glue&#8221; which I haven&#8217;t seen before. We&#8217;ve tried using melted sugar to assemble the houses, and icing, but neither has worked very well. This baking glue was much easier to use than sugar, and stronger than icing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_gingerbread_houses_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_gingerbread_houses_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_gingerbread_houses_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_gingerbread_houses_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_gingerbread_houses_7.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1804_gingerbread_houses_5.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrid and Adrian decorated the Christmas tree today. This year&#8217;s tree is a fir again, which goes counter to tradition and instinct but looks better and sheds less. In the evening, the kids made gingerbread houses with Eric&#8217;s help. There are ready-made kits you can buy, but this year they&#8217;re making them almost from scratch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,790,791,18,775,15,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-dailies","category-eric","category-ingrid_johanna","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions\/12166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}