Oblique Poncho sweater - a little more than halfway

I am making good progress on the this Oblique poncho sweater, where I brought the yarn at the knitting festival in Horsens close to one year ago.  

It is a very easy pattern to follow. You only need to make good track of, how many row, which you have knitted, as you regular have to increase or reduce the amount of knitting masks. 

I am looking forward to finish this project, so I use the poncho during the fast approaching Spring time. 

The "tiger of the house" is measuring his length against the length of the poncho :-)

Oblique Poncho sweater - start on a new knitting project

 

At the knitting festival in Horsens close to one year ago back in February 2020, I brought this yarn kit on Oblique Poncho sweater by Mette Albæk Design for 449 DKK (=59.40 €) incl. the knit pattern.

As yarn it is used a combination of Exquisite Lace from West Yorkshire Spinners (WYS), which is made from 70% Falkland wool & 30% silk. The second part of the yarn combination is Lid Seta from Gepard yarn, which is 70% mohair & 30% silk.   

I will be knitting poncho in rose colour. And this knitting project is my second knitting project from my Make Nine 2021 knitting project.

Sunday Sweater Mohair edition is finished

 

I am finished with the knitting of my version of Sunday Sweater Mohair. And I just love the colour pattern, which the use of the yarn "Tigerdyr" brings to this sweater. It is really fantastic :-)

As yarn for my version I have used a combination of Single Merino (colour called "Tigerdyr") from I's Yarn together with Sandnes tynd silk mohair. I have paided 1090 DKK for this yarn.

So the end of knitting this sweater, also marks the finishing first project on my Make Nine 2021 knitting project :-)

Shrovetide bun with Valentine twist

Today it is Shrovetide Sunday as well as Valentineøs day, so therefore I decided to twist my Shrovetide buns with a small Valentine twist in form of usign Amarena cherries and some juice from the Amarena cherries.

As usual I use the recipe on classic buns, which I learned to bake at the bread baking course as starting point.

Shrovetide bun are connected with fasting, which starts 49 days before Easter. And when in the fast period you are not supposed to eat meat and wheat flour as well as not drink milk or alcohol. So before the fast starts there was big parties, where you would indulge in these foods. Fastelavnssøndag (Shrovetide Sunday) and the following Monday were the last days, where you could eat meat. The following Tuesday was the last day of eating wheat flour, where wheat buns were baked and eaten. This White Tuesday is also known as Pandekagedagen (Pan Cake Day) again relating to the use of wheat flour in pan cakes.

Shrovetide buns with Valentine twist: - 12 buns

Bun dough:

• 650 g wheat flour
• 50 g sugar
• 120 g butter
• 25 g fresh yeast
• 1 egg
• 8 g salt
• 50 g Amarena cherry juice
• 200 g full fat milk

Filling:

• 75-100 g marzipan
• 12 Amarena cherries

• Egg wash

Decoration - options:

• Icing sugar
• Water & colour

1. Weigh all the ingredients directly into the mixing bowl of the stand alone mixer. Keep salt & sugar away from the yeast.
2. Place the bowl on the stand-alone mixer.
3. Start knead the dough at speed 1 for 8 minutes.
4. Afterwards increase the speed to 4, knead for 2 minutes. Check the consistency of the dough. If it is not OK, when knead it at speed 4 for another 2 minutes. Again check the consistency. If needed, knead again for 1 minute and when check consistency of the dough.
5. Let the dough raise in the mixing bowl for approx 40-60 minutes under a damp cloth. The dough can also be raised on the kitchen table under a damp cloth
6. When you evaluate, that the dough has raise enough, divide the dough into smaller pieces with a weight of 100 g each.
7. On the flatten bun dough place a piece of marzipan and one piece of Amarena cherry.
8. Fold the dough together around the filling - fold it close together
9. Place the bun up-side-down on the baking plate.
10. Raise the buns for another 40 minutes on baking trays covered with baking parchment. Do the raising under damp cloth (tea towels)
11. Glaze each bun with whipped egg.
12. Heat up the oven to 200'C (fan oven).
13. Bake the buns at 200'C (fan oven) for 15-20 minutes.
14. After 10 minutes baking switch the baking trays around in the oven. 
15. Cold down the buns.
16. Decorate the buns with icing sugar.
17. Enjoy :-)

Valentine scones with cherry

 

Today is is Valentine's day as well Shrovetide Sunday on the one and same day, which I am celebrating by baking both Valentine scones as well as Shrovetide bun on the very same day.

The Valentine twist to the scones is a combination of both cherry juice from the Amarena cherries together with Amarena cherries.

 

Valentines scones with cherry: - 9 pieces

• 450 g (cake) wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1½ teaspoon baking powder
• 50 g sugar
• 100 g cold butter
• 1 egg
• 1½ dl milk
• ½ dl Amarane cherry juice
• 20 Amarena cherries 

1. Heat the oven (conventional) to 220'C.
2. Mix the flour, salt, baking powder and sugar together in a mixing bowl.
3. Cut the cold butter into small pieces.
4. Grind the butter pieces into the flour mix.
5. Whip the egg together.
6. Add in the whipped egg, milk and cherry juice.
7. Mix the liquid part and flour-butter together without kneading it a dough.
8. Place 2 Amarane cherries in each silicone form 
9. Place the dough in each silicone form.
10. Bake the scone at 220'C for 15-20 minutes.

Suggestion for Shrovetide bun for Fastelavn 2021

 

shrovetide buns in Spring colour

Tomorrow it is Shrovetide Sunday (Fastelavnssøndag) here in Denmark. What does it mean ? It is the peak day for eating Shrovetide buns, until you can not stand the sight of these very rich and fatty buns for another year.

Shrovetide bun are connected with fasting, which starts 49 days before Easter. And when in the fast period you are not supposed to eat meat and wheat flour as well as not drink milk or alcohol. So before the fast started there was big parties, where you would indulge in these foods. Fastelavnssøndag (Shrovetide Sunday) and the following Monday were the last days, where you could eat meat. The following Tuesday was the last day of eating wheat flour, where wheat buns were baked and eaten. This White Tuesday is also known as Pandekagedagen (Pan Cake Day) again relating to the use of wheat flour in pan cakes.

The traditional Danish "fastelavns"/Shrovetide song is like this:

Fastelavn er mit navn                                             Shrovetide is my name

Boller vil jeg have                                                    Buns I would like to have

Hvis jeg ingen boller får                                          If I get no buns

Så laver jeg ballade                                                When I will make trouble

Boller op, boller ned                                               Buns up, buns down

Boller i min mave                                                   Buns in my tummy

Hvis jeg ingen boller får                                         If I get no buns

Så laver jeg ballade                                                When I will make trouble

If you have no clue, what kind of Shrovetide Bun to bake tomorrow, please look below for further inspiration.

And if you want to know that Shrovetide bun, which I am baking tomorrow, when visit my blog again tomorrow afternoon.

Shrovetide bun with apple twist

Classic shrovetide bun with remonce

Shrovetide bun with raspberry filling

Shrovetide bun with caramel sauce

Shrovetide buns with liqourice



Shrovetide bun with cherry and marzipan



Shrovetide bun with raspberry and marzipan



Speculoos shrovetide bun



Shrovetide bun with marzipan cake filling



Shrovetide bun with marzipan filling

Suggestion for Valentine 2021 as eatable treats

Raspberry kiss

Upcoming Sunday it is Valentine Day, so perhaps you would like to make something special for your very own Valentine ?

Anyway you can be very, very certain, that I have been creative again, so look around again tomorrow where I will be sharing some more Valentine ideas with you.

I have the following suggestions, if you were my Valentine.

Valentine ice cream with cherry

Valentine scones with cranberry, raspberry and white chocolate

Valentine cream caramel as a little sweet treat



Valentine fudge

Valentine cookies with pomegranate kernels, white chocolate and rose extract.

Marzipan cake with raspberry and lime

Valentine Romance Scones baked in heart shaped form and full of butter, white chocolate and the wonderful Amarena Fabbri cherries

LOVE cupcakes full of yet some more amazing Amarena Fabbri cheeries.

My Valentine cocktail is sparkling tasty combination of rose extract, Cointreau, cranberry juice and sparkling wine for you celebrate your love with.

And as final suggestion thisValentine sparkling cocktail being sparkling wine with rose extract.

Sunday Sweater Mohair - finished with the body part

 

Today I finished knitting the body on Sunday Sweater Mohair. For this mohair edition I use a combination of Single Merino (colour called "Tigerdyr") from I's Yarn together with Sandnes tynd silk mohair. I just love the colour pattern of the "Tigerdyr", it is really fantastic.

The closure of the body part is done with a technic called Italian closure, where you saw the knitting in a specific method. It takes time, and you have to ensure, that you do not sew to firm together, as you when will loose elasticity. It is the first time, where I have tried this technic, so I think, that I got a very good result.  

Now, I have the "easy" part in front of me, which is only to knit two arms :-)

So, hopefully I can soon tick of my first knitting project on my Make Nine 2021 knitting project.