Sleep eludes me, again...

So let me see if I can make sense of a recipe scrawled in pencil on an index card that has turned yellow with age.

Bavarian Cream

Ingredients:

2 egg yolks
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 cup light cream
1 envelope gelatin
1/4 cup warm water

Mix eggs with sugar. Pour in milk and mix again. Put gelatin into glass and add 1/4 cup warm water. Put glass into hot water to thoroughly dissolve the gelatin. Put milk-egg-sugar mixture into saucepan and cook with medium heat, stirring constantly. When the mixture thickens and starts to steam, remove it from the heat. Beat and let it stand 1 minute. Pour gelatin into the custard. Let it cool.

In the meantime, pour cream into dish. Attempt (!) to beat. To accelerate cooling of the custard, put the saucepan into cold water. When it is cool, add cream and mix. Get a saucepan of ice and lower the custard saucepan into it. Stir. When the contents thicken, beat with an eggbeater and put in refrigerator for an hour or so.

Comments: I seem to recall my grandmother making this when I was a kid, and helping her scrape out the inside of a vanilla bean, the stuff of which she then mixed with the sugar. Also, I don't quite understand the part about "attempting" to beat the cream. Might that mean something like "beat the cream, but don't try to make whipped cream out of it"?

This looks easy enough, though if truth be told, the only ingredient I think I have in the house at the moment is the sugar.

Cheers...

It's been one of those days...

I slept a lot today, and drove around some. I finally got around to dropping off the clothes in which my dad will be buried, and acutely aware that (a) I have very little experience with this kind of thing, and (b) I want to keep it that way.

Shiloh is keeping my mind off of the banal, which is both good and bad. Her behavior has spurred me to go look for parts missing from a carpet cleaner that I found downstairs, which I eventually did, too late to go to the store and get some carpet scrubbing compound.

Heroes continues at its established pace, and is starting to bug me. After a dozen episodes, the show is starting to resemble a soap opera where, instead of the traditional background in which betrayal, greed, and infidelity are endlessly recycled while the story proceeds at slowest possible speed, here we have... hot diggety... betrayal, greed, and infidelity... as well as terminal cuteness, official skullduggery, and people with strange powers in a story that endlessly recycles itself in a way that almost makes me yearn for the putative end of the world the story seems to be slowly drifting toward.

Still, it's too early to give up on the series. At the present rate, I've another week to go.

Note to self: the EPSON CX4600 apparently will not scan to SD card, and may not scan at all unless the print cartridges are all healthy. I seem to recall this was an issue before, now that I think of it. Too bad.

I should get some sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a stressful day.

Cheers...