Ephemera — Piper Haywood

Published Wednesday, 7 December 2016 by Piper Haywood

Bromeliad advice from the Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Bromeliads can be propagated from seed which should be sown onto wet finely chopped sphagnum moss. Surface sow with no covering as seeds need light to germinate. Pots can be covered with cling-film. Germination usually occurs within 2–3 weeks at 22–24°C.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 3 December 2016

Published Tuesday, 6 December 2016 by Piper Haywood

Do you sometimes get the feeling you’re being watched?

Published Friday, 25 November 2016 by Piper Haywood

Link to sweet potato pie recipe

Sweet Potato Pie recipe from Joy the Baker

It’s hard to find the right ingredients for pumpkin pie in the UK. This has much the same effect looks- and taste-wise; I actually prefer it.

Published Sunday, 13 November 2016 by Piper Haywood

New water feature

Flood and chaos at work! #makerversity #somersethousestudios #somersethouse

A video posted by Juan Piñol (@juanpinyol) on Nov 11, 2016 at 7:21am PST

The heater in the studio failed pretty spectacularly on Friday, damage TBD. Kind of scary that it was so hard to get out…

Published Sunday, 30 October 2016 by Piper Haywood

Grandma Piper’s Sugar Cookies

The best & easy
Bake @ 375°F (190°C) 8 min

Cream:

1 c (226 g) butter
1 c (200 g) granulated sugar

Beat in:

1 egg
½ t vanilla

Add:

½ t baking powder
1 c (120 g) wheat flour
1 ½ c (188 g) white flour

Use 3 trays. Make a fat rope. Pinch off pieces on to trays. Flatten each 3x by dipping ⅓c measure into sugar in ½c measure. Cool cookies on newspaper.

The recipe above was written by hand in to a community cookbook she gave me in 2001. It retains her original wording and formatting, though I have added gram and Celsius conversions.

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