Baking

Today I baked for my niece's bday party. Deja-vu you say? Nope it is not that. My other niece has her birthday tomorrow. :) We decided that we would make a ham pie for the guests and I would make Karelian pasties for my nephew who is allergic to milk. So the porrige would be made out of rice or soy drink instead of milk.

Making of skins

I made the skins for the pasties with only rye flour, water and salt. The trick is to let it stay for half'n hour. So the water and flour has some time to set.

Quickly made ham pie (kinkkupiirakka)

After making the first bach of pasties I noticed a problem. The porridge was way too runny. So I needed to fix it. Before doing that I made the ham pie. It had ready made bed so all I needed to do was add the filling. I rather would do the dough myself but we were tight on time.

Skins watining to be filled

Skins waiting to be filled. Well as I mentioned earlier the porrige was quite runny. Well lating it cool down did not help at all! It came even more runny. So I had to add an egg and wheat flour to make it thicker. Let me just say that after the adding the porrige changed into more liquidy form if possible. 

Ready pasties: note that these are milk free and the rice porrige didn't quite work as it would with milk. They taste lovely, or so I was told.

Here are the first ones from the oven. As you can see they look a bit empty... This is because the porrige was a tad too liquidy. But my niece says that they taste good.

Brother in law did these, so not mine.

See the porrige is really runny. So do not use rice drink to make rice porrige.

Left ofver porrige made to be something

I am not sure what I should call this... pancake comes to mind, but that would be the wrong translation as this was kind of rice "Pannukakku".

Believe it or not this egg is empty :))

Also we took good care of the eggs so that my niece can paint them later :)

On a side note. My niece has caught something and we had to post pone the bday party. So we didn't do as much baking as we planned to do. She is really sad because she was waiting for the other kids to come play with her. I just hope that I haven't caught the same thing what she has, as I will need to drive back home on monday. I might stop at oulu to drop few gifts to my niece's new cousin. (Just stop by at a gas station and ask my brother in laws brother to drop there so that I won't get the little baby sick.) I also need to inform my granny's neighbor that there is sickness here, so that she can be prepared for it. Or let me know that I can't go there. I really don't want to get her husband sick.