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Should be a busy day in the home bakery here....started the pannetone dough last night, and the aim today is to turn out 4 pannetone. So far so good. Got the candied fruit online this time, soaking in a bath of rum and extracts. Ran out of vanilla, so tossed in extra lemon. Also got 2 loaves of sourdough bread on deck, and I have just been reminded that I am making some sort of cake for dinner tomorrow night. Have just poured the first egg nog latte, and am streaming in the 80s....kiddies have gone down to Empress Hotel for a bit to see the trees....hope Wolfe leaves a few of them standing for everyone else to enjoy.

Don't think I'll have time to squeeze in another batch of shortbread cookies, but have already done 3 batches in the past week. Something went sideways on batches 2 and 3 in that the shapes lost their shape. The cookies spread out on the pan in the oven, so my angels with their pretty wings appeared to have added all this flab around the mid-section, and under the arms. The holly leaves lost their points, and the XMAS trees lost their crisp outline, as if they were laden with a winter's snow. They still taste yummy though.