[For Elu-Twins and Ilse] Nothing Like Warm Gingerbread on a Cold Day...

[chromaggia_diva]

It's a chilly early winter morning, and Mag -- a hairnet covering her long hair and clad in a long-sleeved tee shirt and jeans -- is puttering about the kitchen, hunting in cabinets and cupboards, looking for flour and sugar and ginger and everything you'd need to whip up a batch of gingerbread cookies. She can't help feeling a teeny bit pensive in

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[flowersofspring]

Ilse ends up in the kitchen after a walk, and grins when she sees Mag. "Hello! Are you baking something?"

[doriath_crowned]

The twins wander in on Ilse's heels, "Hey, if you were that in a hurry, you could have --" And then they spot Mag. "Hi! It smells great in here."

[chromaggia_diva]

"Oh, good day, your lordship and ladyship," she calls out, perched on a kitchen stepladder as she rummages in a cabinet. "I was just getting started, finding some spices: it's a perfect day for baking gingerbread, and I thought I'd bake a batch. I could use some help, though, if you'd like to join me."

[flowersofspring]

"I'd love to help!" Ilse chirps, going over to Mag. "Just tell me what I need to do."

[doriath_crowned]

"Gingerbread?" one of the twins calls out... "What is that, is it a meal?"

The bread part makes them think of Lembas, though it makes no sense, of course, to be making way-bread when you're not travelling.

[chromaggia_diva]

"Could you help me find some brown sugar? It has to be around here somewhere," she says. She can't help smiling at this twins' question. "It can be a kind of bread, a very sweet and spicy bread, but it can also be rolled out thin and made into cookies."

[flowersofspring]

"I can look for it!" Ilse pipes up, opening a cabinet or two.

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[doriath_crowned]

That sounds delicious, and Ilse's energy is communicative, seriously.

"-- can we do anything? We should earn our keep too!"

Elured and Elurin are absolutely enthusiastic.

I really really need the headers - otherwise, Ilse's notif won't get through the filter I had to install due to the ungodly amount of 3rd party notifs I was getting on the two crackplots. Please please please leave the header!

Thanks!

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[chromaggia_diva]

"Hm, we need flour and a sieve. There has to be one somewhere around here in one of these cupboards," she says, finding bottles of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon, then going in search of some fresh ginger and a grater for it.

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[flowersofspring]

Ilse's found the brown sugar, and places it on the counter for Mag. "Here you go!" She grins.

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[doriath_crowned]

One of the twins takes to rummaging through the cupboards, looking for the sieve.

"Do you prepare them by memory?" the other twin asks in the meantime. He's shifting uncomfortably, not sure what to do with himself.

Elured feels like he's in a woman's world - not that he's not used to it, what with living over at Kalush's, but Mag is new and he wants to make a good impression.

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[chromaggia_diva]

Mag takes a large bowl from another cupboard and sets it on the table. "I learned a recipe from my best friend whom I grew up with, but I did find a cookbook with much the same one," she says, digging through the clutter of cups, bowls, flour bags, measuring spoons and pans on the table to find the book lying open.

She takes the bag of brown sugar from Ilse. "Thank you, Ilse," she says. Then she discovers the brown sugar is the packed variety. "Hm, I think we're going to need some help." Rummaging for a wooden cooking hammer, she says, "Would one of you boys like to pound the brown sugar and break it up?"

I have actually done this, with a carpenter's hammer, no less.

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[flowersofspring]

"You're welcome!" she replies cheerily. "Anything else I can do to help?"

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[doriath_crowned]

"Ohhhh, I can do that," Elured replies, and he's feeling, if he's honest, very manly to be asked to pound stuff. Very mature, Elured.

Elurin is still looking for the sieve and finally finds it. "Ah!" He woops triumphantly as he holds it up for everyone to see.

You'd think he just found the Nauglamir, seriously.

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[chromaggia_diva]

She grins, holding the hammer out to Elured. "I think you'll enjoy that," she says.

To Ilse, she adds, as she finds a large measuring cup, "Would you like to hold the sieve while I pour the flour and the sugar into the bowl?"

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[flowersofspring]

"I'd be glad to!" she replies, smiling broadly.