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Make your own eclairs! Eclairs are composed of three components: the shell is made from a dough called Pate au Choux, which is a dough specifically for eclairs. The filling is Pastry Cream, and the icing on top is called Ganache. Yield: About 8 to 10 eclairs. Pate au Choux: Water/Milk: 8oz Butter: 4oz --- Salt: 1/2 tsp Flour (AP): 6oz --- Eggs: 10oz 1. Bring your liquid to a boil on the stovetop. Sift flour and salt to mix and remove lumps. Preheat oven to 375*F 2. When liquid begins boiling, add butter, and let melt fully. 3. Add flour and salt after butter has melted, stir until the paste pulls away from the sides of the pot easily. 4. Remove dough from pot and place into mixer. Mix for about 2 minutes as is to remove excess heat. 5. Gradually add in eggs about a quarter at a time. Allow previous eggs to incorporate fully before adding more. Continue until batter is pipeable (will be pasty, not quite doughy, yet not quite batter-y). You may not need to add all the eggs to achieve this. 6. Using an open-star or closed-star tip, pipe the mix onto ungreased parchment-lined sheet pan. Bake for approximately one hour. 7. Allow to cool before filling. Pastry Cream: Milk: 2 lb (one quart) Sugar 1: 4oz --- Egg Yolks: 3oz (about 5) Corn Starch: 2+1/4oz Whole eggs: 4oz (about 2) Sugar 2: 4oz --- Butter: 2oz Vanilla Extract: 1 T 1. Dissolve sugar 1 into milk. sift corn starch and sugar 2 together. Whisk egg product together, and add sugar + corn starch, whisk until smooth. 2. Bring milk to boil in a saucepan on the stovetop. 3. Remove milk from heat, slowly add in half the hot milk to your egg mix, whisking constantly. Once half the milk is in the eggs, pour the bowl's entire contents back into the saucepan and whisk together. 4. Return pot to heat and whisk until cream thickens. It should look like yogurt and cling to the whisk if you scoop it out. Whisk constantly to avoid lumps forming. 5. Immediately transfer cream to a cold metal bowl in ice bath (strain it if lumps formed). Continue whisking in the ice bath to help dissipate the heat. 6. Once cooled sufficiently, transfer to refrigerator and chill until below 40*F before use. Ganache: Heavy Cream: 9oz Chocolate (semi-sweet): 9oz --- Butter: 1+1/2oz Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp 1. Bring cream to boil on stovetop. 2. When cream boils, pour over chopped chocolate and slowly stir with spatula until chocolate is fully melted. 3. Add butter and vanilla, stir until butter is melted. 4. Use immediately, reheat over double-boiler if needed, but don't do this too often or ganache will become grainy. Using those three components, here's how to make the eclairs: 1. Cut baked eclair shells in half horizontally, giving you a top half and bottom half. Or poke holes on either side of the shell if you wish to pipe your filling. 2a. If cut, spoon pastry cream into bottom half, dip top half into ganache. Sandwich on top of each other and garnish with shaved chocolate if desired. 2b. If piping, use your pastry injector tip (very long with slanted opening similar to a hypodermic needle) and pipe half from one side, and half on the other. When you see filling being pushed out, stop, the shell is full. Dip in ganache, then garnish with shaved chocolate if desired.

The best alternative is the Universal Silent Voice OBSE plugin. With that installed, any time an unvoiced line of dialogue appears (be it player-to-npc conversation or npc-to-npc conversation) you get eight seconds of silence and a generic lip movement to give you time to read things.

Happy first birthday, Babyflcnrider!!! :dance:

In fact, since Rider alluded to moving that Beacon in the Arboretum, you need to clean-save for the 1.0.3 update in order for the change to stick. Otherwise, if you've already visited the Arboretum, that Beacon ain't movin'.

Well, it should not be hidden under anything at all, I scouted that location and made VERY sure you could see and collect the beacon from where it was moved to for all three IC versions out there. Did you check back at the original location, perchance? Maybe this is the game being dumb with persistent references or something?

Hiya, Rider, quickee question here. I was just wondering if RST might have some neat-o goodies for a magic oriented character? My currently running character is a mage in nearly the purest sense. He will never touch any weapons or armor outside of Bound equipment, so while I'm sure RST will have plenty of trophy potential for him, I'm a bit finicky on things he can actually use according to his RP. New robes? New staves? Maybe a couple interesting spells? If yes, great. If not, no biggie, I'll still give him his time 'round the block. Just wondering, though. Not suggesting.

This problem is a conflict between RST and Unique Forts causing the path grids in the area to get disconnected. A patch for this is cooking, we're just waiting for all the permissions to come through.

If it helps to pinpoint the Unique Forts conflict, the path grid gets disconnected in Cell -10,33 and the preferred nodes from cells -8,33 all the way to the disconnect are erased. Load order tweaks won't help, because you'll erase the path grid leading up the stairway to the fort. So a plugin patch will be needed to fix the path grids in the area.

List of conflicts for Reclaiming Sancre Tor and Better Cities: Anvil: No conflicts Bravil: RST added structure is clipping into a Better Cities added wall tower, making it impossible to reach a quest-important object. Tower and attached wall section can be safely removed. Cheydinhal: No conflicts Skingrad: Thatch structure important to obtaining quest-essential item is removed by Better Cities. Item is unreachable and will need to be relocated (ouch). Imperial City: Market District: The new interiors added in the Market District blends perfectly fine with Better Cities. Only conflict is a street light clipping through a junked barrel, but that's hardly worth anyone's time. Arboretum: There is a conflict in need of patching in the Arboretum for Better Cities, a number of plants added by RST are floating above the western pond (Cell 7-13), one of which seems quest important and will be unreachable without TCL. Relocation required (bad). Talos Plaza: Single floating wine bottle in Talos Plaza, but havok should deal with that one. No patch needed. Arcane University: RST added well is conflicting with Better Cities added well by occupying the exact same space as it. One of the wells will need to be removed. Elven Gardens: Quest essential item is stuck under a tree (Cell 5-17). Either the item or the tree will need to be moved, preferably the latter. Temple District: No conflicts. Arena: The new manor is sitting on top of some Better Cities added things, and the grape garden is blocked by a bunch of floating crates. Waterfront: RST added structure is being blocked by Better Cities added tavern. Either one or the other will need to be moved. EDIT: two cities are in conflict with RST due to major architectural discrepancies.

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I need that little something special for my extra-special mage when he achieves his more-than-a-little special status as the super-special hero. Any *cough* special suggestions?

I see the new sky textures have finally found their way in. Excellent, it really shows how much the quality has improved between Oblivion and Skyrim.