this last week, and the coming weekend

[mrs_piglit]

So, I haven't been online all week. I was getting a cold over Thanksgiving, and although it never got too bad, symptom-wise, it did affect my inner ears. I've been having dizzy spells since Tuesday morning. I went to the doctor on Wednesday evening, and she said that viruses will sometimes do that. It should get better eventually. It hasn't

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[ceiling_taffi]

Good luck! That sounds like a fairly long to-do list for a two-day weekend (especially given the greater space which you can decorate this year, and especially if Sean's family is as large as I dimly recall). But have fun!

If you find a really good gingerbread person recipe, I'd love to hear about it.

[mrs_piglit]

I don't expect to finish everything on that list. :) I think the tree, the laundry, and the felting (as part of the laundry) are possible.
We used the Betty Crocker recipe for gingerbread people when I was a kid. I emailed my mom with a few key quantities, and she said they haven't changed the recipe in my newer edition. They make a relatively soft and cakey cookie, but I think we actually strung them up and hung them on the tree one year when I was little. Do you want me to post the recipe?

[ceiling_taffi]

Is it one of these?

http://www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId=37772
http://www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId=34689

or a different one? I do like chewy gingerbread (although not cakey gingerbread so much as gingerbread people). I'd also be interested in whatever recipe you ended up with as your favorite for gingerbread construction; I'm thinking about testing a few again this year and making houses with the kids of a friend of mine. :-)

[mrs_piglit]

It's the first one. The quantities are the same, but in the book it's a regular batch, not for a cookie exchange!
I only had enough molasses for half a batch.
They aren't hard, crunchy gingerbread people. They are more chewy and cakey. (Like a cakey cookie, not like a pan of fluffy gingerbread.)
Sigh. There are so many types of gingerbread.
I can't remember what recipe we liked for construction. Takolaura had books from the library with different ones.