Phew! Well, I’m glad that’s done for another year….

So, let’s see….

One hour last night for mixing the two batches of dough. . . . my KitchenAid mixer should forgive me eventually. One of these days, I’m going to find a scale that can give me an accurate weight for these batches, but, figure . . . 5 eggs, half a pound of butter, 2 cups of milk, 3 tubs of candied fruit, plus raisins, nuts, and then something like 10 or 12 cups of flour . . . in each batch . . . that 5 qt mixing bowl on my mixer is FULL!

A half-hour this morning for pounding it into loaves. (Seriously, my forearms are still tired. This is heavy stuff. Hence the fact that I didn’t knit at all today, or spin in the kitchen like I’d planned.)

And then, the baking? Started at 12:00, ended at 6:30. Four batches of two loaves each, which took between 1:15 and 1:30, plus the final batch of two mini-loaves, which took about half an hour.

Yep! I sure do love my Dad. (grin)

And, one other thing that’s at least mostly done. The neckband is done, the last ends woven in, the underarm seams grafted . . . I just need to try it on and decide what to do with the no-longer-faux seams (or, more importantly, the seam allowances). And no, I haven’t tried it on yet . . . too tired! And, of course, it will be blocked, too . . . at some point (grin).

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