Peppermint Creams: Blindfolded
I was about to post this to bakebakebake, when I realised there was no baking involved.
I was team-building with our lovely new LINKS (St John Ambulance) committee today, and after the usual bridge-making and role-playing, we were introduced to an exercise I'd never done before (because Nicki just made it up); making peppermint creams with two team members blindfolded and the other giving instructions.
The recipe we were working to is as follows:
125g icing sugar
half an egg white
3 drops peppermint essence
The icing sugar was already weighed out, but the egg was unseparated. I thought it might be a disaster, but my team managed perfectly (once I'd got then into the kitchen). The main difficult was making myself heard above the loud arguing and recriminations of our illustrious chair Allen and vice-chair Steve. (Their team managed all right, except for the distinct lack of peppermint in their peppermint creams). Perhaps a bit more than half the egg white went into our mix, but we ended up with lovely heart-shaped peppermint creams. What's more they tasted delish, even if you could only eat one or two -- so sickeningly sweet!
Of course, if we'd actually done a risk assessment on that exercise, it would never have happened. Good job we never got around to that bit! I've got paperwork coming out of my ears.
I was team-building with our lovely new LINKS (St John Ambulance) committee today, and after the usual bridge-making and role-playing, we were introduced to an exercise I'd never done before (because Nicki just made it up); making peppermint creams with two team members blindfolded and the other giving instructions.
The recipe we were working to is as follows:
125g icing sugar
half an egg white
3 drops peppermint essence
The icing sugar was already weighed out, but the egg was unseparated. I thought it might be a disaster, but my team managed perfectly (once I'd got then into the kitchen). The main difficult was making myself heard above the loud arguing and recriminations of our illustrious chair Allen and vice-chair Steve. (Their team managed all right, except for the distinct lack of peppermint in their peppermint creams). Perhaps a bit more than half the egg white went into our mix, but we ended up with lovely heart-shaped peppermint creams. What's more they tasted delish, even if you could only eat one or two -- so sickeningly sweet!
Of course, if we'd actually done a risk assessment on that exercise, it would never have happened. Good job we never got around to that bit! I've got paperwork coming out of my ears.