Teacher's Day

Today is September 1st, the day when the church bells ring. Well actually it's Teachers' Day. So I decided to just try making something to give to the teachers. You know, handmade to show the effort in it, et cetera, et cetera.

It was actually pretty disgusting how I made it.

I made this stupid thing:

Ingredients:

1/6 lump of butter (the kind that comes in rectangles)

200ml (or so) of water

1/7 tin of condensed milk (I'm estimating here)

Sugar (you decide yourself how much you want)

2 Eggs (Mother's suggestion)

2 Teaspoons of Starch (Mother's suggestion)

1. Firstly, pour the water into a metal pan/whatever you wanna make it in.

2. Put the butter in.

3. Put it in the oven and heat it up before dissolving the butter.

4. Take it out once all the butter has been dissolved.

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4, only replace the butter with sugar.

6. Pour condensed milk in. The water should be hot enough to dissolve it.

7. Make sure that the butter, sugar and milk are all dissolved into the water.

(From here on is with my mother's help)

8. Crack the eggs and beat them.

9. Pour the egg into the mixture and mix them together.

10. Add some water to the starch to get starch water.

11. Pour the starch water inside and mix.

12. Microwave the mixture till its texture becomes like jelly.

13. Bake it in the oven to remove any excess water.

The result looks like this:

Not too bad for a first try at cooking. The texture is rather like that of pudding/jelly/custard/egg tart. It's a bit burnt at the top, as you can see... After I finished baking there was still a lot of excess oil, which was pretty disgusting so I poured away as much as I could without pouring out the... Whatever it is.

Actually the recipe was based off the recipe for Scottish Tablets because I couldn't find any flour and had to do without it. But the proportions of the ingredients and the heating method was really different so I ended up with... This.

One of my classmates was amazing to enough to guess that there was condensed milk and eggs inside the thing. Sad thing is, one thought it was egg tart, another pudding, yet another custard, and my mom reckoned it was guei (this thingy kind of like mooncakes, only much softer and less flashy). But at least they said it tasted nice.

I had the time of my life doing these:

1. Holding up the knife I used to cut it and going to other people while smiling innocently.

2. Talking to the teachers:
Me: "Would you like some?"
Teacher: "What's this?"
Me: "I have no idea."

3. Inviting my senior to come over and have some by saying innocently, "By the way, why don't you drop by my class and try some of this thing I made that I don't know what it is but I think it's edible."

4. Going around looking around suspiciously and conspicuously hiding a shiny knife.

5. Saying, "Everyone thinks I'm a mass-murderer just because I'm holding a knife!" with a pitiful look on my face, while I wave the knife around dangerously.

Yeah, knives and mysterious food are really fun to use to manipulate others.

And I told the Geography teacher this:
"Do you have a niece called Sze Min who likes dragons and likes to draw?"
"Yeah, how do you know her?"
"We're friends."
Cue WTH look from teacher.

I should do more of these someday.

Sayon.