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  • mary43
    mary43 Posts: 5,845 Forumite
    pieface - brilliant !! Love the first one best I think.................you are clever - and so quick...............thanks a lot.
    Mary

    I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
    (Good Enough Member No.48)
  • maytaurus
    maytaurus Posts: 2,115 Forumite
    Here's a recipe for easy easy Yummy Home-made chocolate fudge;
     300g of good Dark Chocolate with a high coco percentage (70% or 80% coco content)
    The fudge will not work with other chocolate.
    400g tin of Condensed milk.
    Method...
    Break up the chocolate into a microwavable dish.
    Microwave the Chocolate for 1 minute and stir, repeat again.
    If the chocolate has still not melted microwave for an extra 20 seconds and stir.
    Repeat the 20 seconds until the chocolate has melted being careful not to overcook the chocolate.
    Then add the tin of condensed milk to the chocolate, stir in well.
    You will feel the mixture thicken.
    Pour into a foil lined tin, spread evenly and smooth the top.
    Allow to cool for a couple of hours.
    Take the fudge out of the tin and peel off the tin foil.
    [FONT=&quot]Cut in to small mouth sized chunks and pop into jars.

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    The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane[FONT=&quot] —[FONT=&quot] Marcus Aurelius[/FONT][/FONT]
  • maytaurus
    maytaurus Posts: 2,115 Forumite
    ooooh & almost forgot;

    Yummy Home-made peppermint creams
    12 tablespoons of icing sugar,
    1 egg white,
    green food colouring (optional),
    peppermint flavouring and cooking chocolate.
    Add to a bowl the icing sugar, egg white, 4 drops of peppermint flavouring and 12 drops of green food colouring. Mix well and kneed the mixture to form a smooth ball. If the mixture is a little too wet add more icing sugar.
    Roll the ball into a large sausage and slice into individual sweets. Use your hands to shape the sweets and leave them on a chopping board to dry.
    Melt the chocolate in a dish in the microwave, it will only need a minute or two. Don't over do it, it just needs enough time to melt. If you do not have a microwave, you may need an adult to help. Stand a mixing bowl inside a pan of boiling water on the hob, keep the water simmering. Don't let any water bubble over the side and into the chocolate because this spoils the chocolate. Be careful not to let the pan boil dry.
    Dip each sweet into the chocolate half way, and leave it on some tinfoil until the chocolate sets.
    pop them into your jars .......or
    sometimes I put the sweets in greaseproof paper & paper napkins tied up with ribbon or tinsel
    The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane[FONT=&quot] —[FONT=&quot] Marcus Aurelius[/FONT][/FONT]
  • tootiefrooties
    tootiefrooties Posts: 384 Forumite
    glad i could help out. i'm planning on doing a basket of 40 home made muffins for my mum's 40th next year (yes, i'm planning early...like always haha), and put a jar of facts in the middle. DH is going to find out an interesting fact for every year of her life (like inventions, politics, number 1 in the charts, grand national winner etc.) so I'm all excited about starting it already :D
  • rainmac
    rainmac Posts: 7,063 Forumite
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    piefacerecords wrote: »
    glad i could help out. i'm planning on doing a basket of 40 home made muffins for my mum's 40th next year (yes, i'm planning early...like always haha), and put a jar of facts in the middle. DH is going to find out an interesting fact for every year of her life (like inventions, politics, number 1 in the charts, grand national winner etc.) so I'm all excited about starting it already :D

    What a fab idea! My brother's 30 and dad's 65 next year, may have to steal the jar idea if you don't mind!!!
    :wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:
  • tootiefrooties
    tootiefrooties Posts: 384 Forumite
    rainmac wrote: »
    What a fab idea! My brother's 30 and dad's 65 next year, may have to steal the jar idea if you don't mind!!!

    Go for it! I would never have thought of doing something like that if it hadn't been for this jar thread. Now I might just have to persuade DH to take me to ikea for some nice jars... I've only been once and we must have been there about 6 hours, haha :rotfl:
  • rainmac
    rainmac Posts: 7,063 Forumite
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    piefacerecords wrote: »
    Go for it! I would never have thought of doing something like that if it hadn't been for this jar thread. Now I might just have to persuade DH to take me to ikea for some nice jars... I've only been once and we must have been there about 6 hours, haha :rotfl:

    I'd leave your OH in the cafe with a nice large coffee and go back and get him when you need to pay and help carrying everything you've picked up!
    :wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:
  • Siren137
    Siren137 Posts: 423 Forumite
    My nan turns 80 this year and although I have already got her present and its all wrapped and at my mums house ready to go (did it before we moved!!) I may have to do a jar of facts for each year. Although it will be going all the way back to 1928!! May have to start some research me thinks!!
    :beer: Saving hard for a brighter future!:beer:
  • rainmac
    rainmac Posts: 7,063 Forumite
    Home Insurance Hacker! Cashback Cashier
    Siren137 wrote: »
    My nan turns 80 this year and although I have already got her present and its all wrapped and at my mums house ready to go (did it before we moved!!) I may have to do a jar of facts for each year. Although it will be going all the way back to 1928!! May have to start some research me thinks!!

    Great idea siren. I've made my nan a journal in a jar for Xmas. Can't wait for her to start writing all her memories down.

    Sorry to be a nag but have you been to the docs yet...?
    :wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:
  • rainmac
    rainmac Posts: 7,063 Forumite
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    Found this site, may be of use for year facts and goes all the way back to 1900!

    http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
    :wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:
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