Intermediate
Christmas Cookies!
Posted on: 09 Dec, 2009 07:46 PM GMT
It's time to bake Christmas cookies at my home. Listen to the following selection that provides lots of vocabulary related to baking. You'll find important vocabulary listed by category and the text for the listening selection at the end of the post. It's best to try to understand the listening through just listening before you read along with the listening selection.
Ingredients
flour
sugar - powdered sugar
egg
egg whites
yolks
butter
Types of Nuts
hazelnut
walnut
almond
pecan
peanut
Brazil nut
Verbs Used When Cooking
to mix ingredients together
to stir
to bake
to cook from scratch
to sift flour
to beat egg whites and yolks
to chop nuts
to pre-heat your overn
to grind nuts
to melt butter / chocolate
to grease a pan / sheet
Important Tools for Baking
cookie-cutter
baking sheet
oven
stove
mixing bowls
spatula
mixing / wooden spoon
pan
measuring spoons / cups
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It's Christmas season - as you probably know - and at my home that means Christmas cookies! My wife is a fantastic cook and one of our favorite traditions is baking Christmas cookies together. This year she's already baked more than six different types of cookies. She most enjoys cooking Christmas cookies with nuts. She chops, slices and dices all kinds of nuts. She uses walnuts, lots of hazelnuts and almonds. She doesn't really like peanuts, so there are no peanuts used in her baking. We go through pounds of butter, as well as bags of powdered sugar and flour. For some of her cookies she even grinds hazelnuts to make hazelnut flour!
When baking cookies, it's important to pre-heat your oven to the right temperature. There are numerous steps to baking Christmas cookies from scratch. You need to mix the ingredients, sift the flour, beat egg whites and yolks, chop nuts, and stir everything together. That's just to get things ready! You'll also need to grease a baking sheet, form your cookies with a cookie-cutter in fun Christmas shapes, or by hand and finally bake your cookies. There's nothing like baking cookies, drinking a cup of hot chocolate and watching it snow outside - of course, you'll need some Christmas carols on in the background to get the mood just right!
Music: BIng Crosby sings White Christmas
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Submitted by Freyutss on 11 Feb, 2010 10:58 AM GMT
Do you know that these specific Christmas cookies have been a real marriage help for me and my husband? Unbelievable, but, my little girl wanted us to make them together. That's how, while baking them we started talking on a very calm tone and, in the end, actually solved our problems we couldn't talk about until then.
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Submitted by Hannaneh on 21 Dec, 2009 03:22 PM GMT
Hi
Let me send you my blessings for a wonderful Christmas and a great
and magical 2010,
we have Noroz as new year celebration and I miss it! :-(
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Submitted by Jessicadold on 19 Dec, 2009 09:21 PM GMT
I have posted a link to your post in the Christmas Group. Members can check this group out to find out more about Christmas.
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Submitted by Maru on 12 Dec, 2009 12:42 PM GMT
What a nice post!
Agree with Ravisha, if we could only get one of those cookies...
You're so lucky to have such a wife.
Merry Chirstmas to you and your family too.
Maru
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Submitted by Alenoosh on 10 Dec, 2009 08:08 PM GMT
cookies from scratch
Hello Ken
I don't get the meaning of this quote. I have looked it up but I
cant adjust it on your post.
I will be appreciated to elaborate more.
Thanks,
Alenoosh
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Submitted by Kenneth on 10 Dec, 2009 06:28 PM GMT
Hi Kenneth
The blogs shows that the Christmas mood had started in and
around your family, Merry Christmas to you and your family. If the
internet allows us to interchange gifts and sweets like how we
interchange our blogs and e-mails oh! I would have get a nice
cookies from you in a jiffy isn’t!!!
That's the next revolution that information technology has to conquer!
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Submitted by Kenneth on 10 Dec, 2009 06:28 PM GMT
Hello Ken, Merry Christmas, in advance. And then what a
wonderful day you will spend with your family.
'' drinking a cup of hot chocolate'' - that seems strange to
me?
We usually drink hot tea or coffee, really I want to know what kind
of drinking it is.
Thanks
Alenoosh
It's also called cocoa. It's a drink that's creamy and very chocolaty - yum yum...
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Submitted by Creative on 10 Dec, 2009 02:14 PM GMT
Hi Kenneth,
I really enjoyed this blog... very useful for learners. There is
nothing like baking cookies from scratch at Christmas time. We have
made shortbread cookies with Naomi.. snowmen, Christmas trees,
snowflakes etc. She loves to ice and put sprinkles on them.
We have also baked and iced ornamental cookies for the tree.
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Submitted by Ravisha on 10 Dec, 2009 06:27 AM GMT
Hi Kenneth
The blogs shows that the Christmas mood had started in and around your family, Merry Christmas to you and your family. If the internet allows us to interchange gifts and sweets like how we interchange our blogs and e-mails oh! I would have get a nice cookies from you in a jiffy isn’t!!!
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Submitted by Alenoosh on 10 Dec, 2009 04:25 AM GMT
Hello Ken, Merry Christmas, in advance. And then what a
wonderful day you will spend with your family.
'' drinking a cup of hot chocolate'' - that seems strange to
me?
We usually drink hot tea or coffee, really I want to know what kind
of drinking it is.
Thanks
Alenoosh
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