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Würstchen im Schlafrock - Sausage in a dressing gown

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 Hello Folks!!! " [ bread  crackles] Oh, symphony of crackle. Only great  bread sound  this way. I didn't have to help you! If I looked out only for myself, I would have let you drown!" This line from the movie Ratatouille never fails to make you feel hungry. In this cooked up story, I will help you to make  such  warming, cotton soft and fluffy bread, encasing a juicy sausage. The buttery, float away texture of these home-made rolls remind me of the ones that were the pride of several grey-haired ladies who baked for all the school breaks of my childhood. Neatly aproned, and hair braided in a bun, they would stand behind the tuck-shop, selling dozens of rolls, which were whisked straight from the ovens and eaten up quickly by eagerly waiting children. For me what matters is not just the smell of those golden kissed rolls, but the celebration we had every 9 am at school- to run and buy ourselves a roll before the bell rings again for the next hour. How do y...

Mmm....Dorayaki Cakes

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  Hello Folks!!! Yesterday I was arranging my bookshelf and I found one of my favourite nursery stories- Mr Wolf’s Pancakes lying on the bottom rack with all the other books that were meant to be given away. As I turned the pages filled with drawings, colours and huge letters, I could feel myself once more sitting on my little chair and asking my mother to read it to me. The story is about a wolf who is very hungry and wants to eat some pancakes, but because wolves can’t read from a recipe book, or make a shopping list, he asks for help from his neighbours – the ginger bread man and the three little pigs, but they were so rude to him and finally, he had to manage everything all on his own! This story made me imagine I was Mr Wolf whenever we had pancakes for breakfast or at tea time. But now, the story repeats with a different hero. My sister’s favourite cartoon is Doraemon, a cat robot (not a raccoon) who is crazy for his pancake, the Dorayaki cake and falls for any trap inv...