Your gateway to endless inspiration
Fun Fact - Blog Posts
Have You Heard Of The đŤđŚâ
www.factsbybriggs.com
Hey it's me again :)
Random fun fact, go!
Fun fact of the day:
A duel between three people is called a truel.
Have angy Batman (not mine):
Random fun fact, go!
Fun fact of the day:
Dogs find lavender and chamomile scents calming.
Moving on,
Look at this distinguished lil' gentleman.
Soul Cakes and Halloween Costumes
âDouble, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubbleâ - Witchesâ Speech, Macbeth
End of October and early November is an interesting time of year. Marking the end of the harvest season, October 31st - November 2nd share four separate holidays:
Halloween on the 31st;
All-Saints Day on the 1st; and
All-Souls Day and Samhain on the 2nd.
For such an interesting time of year, itâs no wonder that recipes have appeared across time to commemorate each occasion.
Traditionally baked to celebrate All-Souls Day, Soul Cakes are sugar-cookie-esque spiced cookies (or biscuits) that are made with none of the vanilla extract, baking powder, or baking soda that weâre used to seeing in modern recipes. Rather, they rely on their interesting blend of spices to treat your taste buds!
If youâre looking for something to keep the Halloween season going at school or work even after the holiday has passed, bring in these cookies to snack on!
Have a safe and happy Halloween/ All-Saints Day/ All-Souls Day/ Samhain everyone!
P.S: The fox in the picture is named Elphaba!
(Adapted from Helen Best-Shawâs Fuss Free Flavours and Cooking Journey Blog)
Prep: 10 mins        Cook: 30 mins        Overall: 40 mins
Ingredients*:
Âź cup + 3 tbsp. (100 g) unsalted butter, softened
½ cup (100 g) packed light brown sugar
2 egg yolks
2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
1 pinch saffron or ground turmeric (for colour)
1 tsp. (2 g) all-spice
½ tsp. mixed spice**
2 ½ tbs. (35 ml) milk
50 g raisins***
* Makes enough for 15-18 2-inch (5 cm) diameter cookies or 24-27 ~2.6-inch (6.6 cm) diameter cookies.
** Mixed spice is a spice blend that includes cinnamon, coriander seed, caraway, nutmeg, ginger, ground cloves, and caraway. I donât have access to this blend so I added Âź tsp. cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves individually to make ½ tsp..
*** I didnât have any regular raisins so I substituted for golden raisins.
To start, preheat the oven to 360â (180â) and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Next, in a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
Then, whisk in the egg yolks.
Add flour, all-spice, mixed spice, and milk and stir until the dough holds together.
After, stir in the raisins until they are well distributed.
Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and roll it out to about o.6-inch (Âź cm) thickness. Then, cut the dough in circles using a cookie cutter.
Recombine and re-roll any dough scraps to get the most cookies possible!
Place the dough circles on the parchment-lined baking sheet - leaving space between each cookie. Cut a plus-sign (or cross) shape on each cookie (adding the raisin is optional).
Bake on the middle oven rack for 15-20 mins - rotating the pan halfway through - until they are golden brown. Let them cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes then transfer them to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Overall, I would give this recipe a 5/5. The spices used in the cookies made for a different and delicious spin on the sugary cookies weâre used to nowadays. I had a lot of fun diving into this medieval British treat and hope to try more in the future!
Happy Halloween/All-Saints Day/ All-Souls Day/ Samhain!
It occurs to me that there are people who werenât on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
Itâs been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
friendly reminder there is a canon version of dnd in the Octonauts universe, its called oceans and orges and inkling is the main DM
Donc Ă la suite du visionnage de l'interview d'Alexandre Astier par Guillaume Pley et de 2/3 recherches google, j'ai appris qu'il est le fruit de la relation entre JoĂŤlle et Lionnel Astier pendant qu'elle ĂŠtait mariĂŠe Ă Bruno BoĂŤglin qui l'a plutĂ´t bien pris. Aujourd'hui, ce dernier est encore pote avec Lionnel Astier et joue le chef Viking dans Kaamelott.
C'est plutĂ´t mignon đ
You would be one to know seeing that you have one. A bigger one than you're willing to admit by the looks of it; has someone been opening up to the possibility of friendship with a certain wandering weirdo? đ¤¨
DIE!!!!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhC1KVBAl3Y)
WIP:
Looky :D I'm making something. XD
Also,I gave Duck a yellow bathing suit for proprieties sake. I have no idea what i'm going to give her, if anything at all. :/
Fun fact: Technically this kind of already happens in nature on earth, but just with birds eating pregnant fish and not digesting the eggs so when it poops later in itâs migration, the poop (including viable fish eggs) sometimes land in/ rain down on water and occasionally start up a new area for the fish to thrive
Yes I'm launching big tubes of living fish into space. If you have an easier way to terraform a planet I'd like to hear it.
Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight
Karma and Chowder <3
Karma doodles, since you guys dont know her too well ^^
HELLO???
WHY DID I NEVER KNOW THIS
on spotify desktop app the star wars songs have lightsabers that change when you click on it and it changes the type and color!! editing to add all the lightsabers:
tagging moots @redbean-nom @sesamenom-misc @beachedsandcastles
the only thing that could POSSIBLE be better is the dark saber sword
Apparently people like random ass fun facts do y'all wanna hear one?
Okay cool. Heinz ketchup made Coca Cola change their name way back when.
That actually happened according to a documentary I watched once.