In honor of Guy Falkes Day (see below), I decided to make some cookies. The recipe is the Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe modified to add 1 cup of ground Cinnamon Oats made locally in East Anglia and nice plump raisins and dried cranberries instead of chocolate chips. The cinnamon in the oats gives it a nice autumn taste...yum!
Here's my French classmate's humorous summary of what Guy Falkes day is all about:
A few hundred years ago Mr Fawkes attempted to burn / blow out the house of parliament (or a building of similar standard) for some reason I am not totally aware of (possibly something to do with religion or an unhealthy interest in burning things). He failed and the current King, who incidentally didn't really like this type of initiatives, ordered his execution and subsequent quartering. Since then the people of Britain celebrate every year with fireworks and in general burning things (which is fun!). Now depending of where you live these celebrations can kick off several weeks before the 5th November...with kids fancy dressed and accompanied with a dummy representing Mr Fawkes (which will be ultimately be burnt) begging for money to buy fireworks.
The American description is that it is like the 4th of July...an excuse to set off fire works and have a carnival!! There will be a fireworks display at 7:30pm tonight in Midsummer's Common for all to enjoy, then a huge bonfire will be lit. I am excited to see what its like and will hopefully get some photos to post. Wish me luck that I don't get hit by a loose firework! :)
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