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    Amorphous ginger blob

    When tidying out a cupboard I came across the Gingerbread Man cutter from when the kids were young.

    Fancied some!

    So I followed the recipe at

    https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/gingerbread_men_99096

    I put 10 nice Gingerbread Men into the oven.
    15 minutes later a huge amorphous ginger blob came out.

    It seems they all melted together, you could just make out their outline.
    A bit of deft work with a knife and they reappeared, although a bit worse for wear.


    I guess I should have spaced them a bit more.

    And this dammed English language has me going again.
    Worse for wear, is it where , were or wear ???
    Think it's wear but that's for cloths !

    Jimmy
    Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Jimmy View Post

    And this dammed English language has me going again.
    Worse for wear, is it where , were or wear ???
    Think it's wear but that's for cloths !

    Jimmy
    Don't ask me I'm dyslexic they are all right to me.

    More importantly did your amorphous ginger blob taste nice ?

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    • #3
      "Worse for wear, is it where , were or wear ???
      Think it's wear but that's for cloths !"

      "Worse for wear", as you mention like in worn clothes etc - the idea being that through usage some thing could be degraded so that it was not so good as when new - the phrase then became a circumlocution for someone who was a drunk - plenty of other expressions to cover a drunken person eg "3 sheets to the wind" and "pie-eyed " come to mind as colorful ones :-)

      My wife who is Lithuanian reckons that we English have made our language deliberately confusing just so that foreigners find it hard to get to grips with it - my explanation, a bit more prosaic, is that the English being a hodge-podge of peoples and languages roughly melded together, also like magpies bringing shiny new words from other places, have constructed a melange of words with which to express ourselves.

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      • #4
        I find shaped cookies harder to make here. Chilling the dough - sometimes even after cutting out the shapes, sometimes for longer than recipe states - helps. Though, as SP says, it's all in the taste. Hope they were delicious

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post
          More importantly did your amorphous ginger blob taste nice ?
          Another important question did you bite of the legs or head first
          Location....East Midlands.

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          • #6
            Well due to my deft knife work some had no heads others missing legs or arms.
            Generally, like jelly babies, I bite the heads off first, seems more humane.
            And they were/where/wear (choose applicable) delicious.
            But didn't bother icing them as they looked a bit raggy.

            Jimmy
            Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!

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            • #7
              Looked at the headline a few times.all i keep seeing is,amorous ginger blob,this had me wondering what you had got there,like when letters are in a different order,and still read it,please tell me i am not alone,or have i had to much sun,any how,after reading the post,you made a gallant effort all round there,but what was the taste,and don't say ginger,was the blobs till edable,just thought,you could have blobed icing here and there,your very own MR blobby's
              sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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              • #8
                Well I did check before I used it
                https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amorphous
                Where as
                https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amorous
                would suggest something rather strange.
                Had they been an Amorous ginger blob I think I would have had to put them down on the spot.

                As for the taste, as I can't use the word ginger I will tell you in German, "Ingwer"

                Jimmy
                Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!

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                • #9
                  haha I read it as amorous too! LOL
                  https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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