This morning was my morning at the BAKERY! :) I woke up at 6 am to get ready and eat some breakfast... then Karin and I took Louisa to school and then she took me to Tammerfors Bakery at 7. She introduced me to everyone and I met Helen who I would be working with on the desserts/cakes/pastries.
Helen showed me downstairs where I would have a locker and she gave me a bakery shirt to wear and a baker apron. She showed me around the bakery so I would be familiar with where things were... she wasn't very confident in her English but she did fine explaining to me what to do while I was there.
The first thing she had me do was slice strawberries and put them in the middle of a bun, on top of a vanilla custard that was filled in the center. After that, she spooned clear gelatin into a frosting bag and I coated the strawberries with it. Once that was finished, I took the tray and placed it on a rack with other pastries ready to be taken out to the front of the bakery.
Next, she brought out 3 thin, rectangle sheet cakes for me to slice strawberries and place on the tops of each one. Then I spooned more gelatin (with a thicker consistency) onto those strawberries, and then I took cookie crumbs and covered the sides of the cake with them. Then I cut 3 finger-width slices and placed them on a separate tray.
After that, she rolled out green marzipan for me, and gave me a cookie cutter and showed me how to cut leaves with it. Then I took the end of a fork and made leaf veins in the leaves and then scrunched them up in a way to where they looked like real leaves. I filled almost a whole tray with those, then she asked if I would like to try and make flowers out of pink marzipan, so I said "sure!" Let me tell you... those flowers are a lot harder than they look to make. First I had to take a cheese cutter thing and slice a strip of the marzipan... then I rolled one end a couple times to make the center of the flower, then I had to take the remaining strip of marzipan and weave it around the center. I kept running into the problem of not having a long enough strip. After an hour of working on that, I completed maybe 5 good flowers. But she made me feel better and said it took her many many years to learn how to do it perfect.
While attempting those flowers, the guy who agreed to let me work there came in and talked with me. He was really nice. He said I could come in again next wednesday (my birthday) at 6 am to help the bread baker for 2 hours, and then work with Helen again from 8-10. The next 2-4 wednesdays I won't be available, so if he lets me come in on other days I should be able to continue every week... but he told me to just have Karin call him and we would schedule something.
At 10, Helen told me she was taking her break and that should be enough for me for the day, so I put my stuff in the locker and walked the 30 minutes back to the house. Once back I had some chocolate milk and then took a couple hour nap :) After waking up and making myself a sandwich, I worked out for 35 minutes on the elliptical and then worked on my abs. Afterwards, I relaxed until about 4:30, then grabbed an apple and some cashews before biking down to the softball field. We had the small girls from 5-6, and then our own practice from 6-8. For part of our warm-up during practice, Ingrid paired us with someone according to our speed, and she paired me with the fastest girl on the team... this tiny little girl who Ingrid is always talking about is the fastest person she's seen. Well it was like a race kind of, but one of us would start about 5 feet in front of the other and the one in the back had to catch the one in front, and I caught her every single time, and I think she only caught me once, and it was right as we were crossing the bag. But anyways, we mainly worked on infield/outfield and I was in charge of the infield. Then we tried running some plays. Afterwards, I biked home and there was noodles and meat sauce with salad waiting.
Now it's time to shower up and relax! Midsummer is Friday and I'm baking a carrot cake for Karin (because she usually brings that) and then Kelsey and I are going to make apple dumplings. Supposedly at 1 we will go to a field and dance around a pole and have fika. Then at 3 we will go to Ingrid's and have lunch which will be different types of herring and salmon and other stuff... then we will fika again. Then we will grill out for dinner and fika again! haha... that's my kind of day!
So with the bakery being a success, today was a great day! It makes me realize that this is something I REALLY, really want to do because I enjoy it so much. :)
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