All that rumbled in the jumble

A couple of Sundays ago those of The Bookery Cook and related company held a Jumble Jungle Garage Sale. 

What better way to spend a Sunday than donning your Sunday best (which inevitably would change over the course of the day given the swamp of prime vintage wear), setting up a cute sprawling mass of second hand goods, getting your mates around, meeting some nice locals, warding off the rain, drinking homemade lemonade from homegrown lemons, eating cupcakes, firing the bbq and cracking the first stones ginger beer at 10.30am?? 

Big ups to all who partook in the setting up/ packing down/ selling/ buying of wares, cooking of consumables, consuming of edibles and beverages, and keepers of company and passers of by. What a good time was had by all!

Prepping the wares…

Some consumables that featured on the day:

Cupcakes 

Although these cupcakes looked like they were made by a blindfolded toddler with their hands tied behind their back, these sweet little cakes were delicious, anddevoured over the course of the day and night.


Sugar
Butter
Eggs
Vanilla essence
SR Flour

Heat oven to 180ºc.
Combine butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, beat until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla essence and combine, then add flour and combine.

Spoon into patty cakes. If you wish to have a more ‘traditional’ shaped cup cake than ours it is advisable to place the patty cakes in a muffin tray before baking.

Bake for 15 – 20 minutes, allow to TOTALLY cool, then ice.

For the icing
We mixed icing sugar and softened butter together, added a little milk and then away we went with the food colouring. This didn’t turn out to the best move so we may try a more ‘measured’ approach next time.

Very choc chippy choc chip cookies 

With a higher percentage of chocbits than dough, these cookies were a definite crowd-pleaser.

Ingredients
Butter
Sugar
Eggs
Flour
Baking powder

Homemade Lemonade 

This wholesome beverage was made from lemons from our parent’s farm.

Lemons
Sugar
Soda water
Ice aplenty to serve

Great with ice, fabulous with ice and gin, as we were to find out later in the day…