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Bread Machine, loaf recipe? Morphy Richards Fast Bake.
I have just acquired via freecycle a bread maker. It is a morphy richards fast bake one. The problem i have is that it came with no instructions but in true moneysaving terms it was free! So is there such a thing as a general bread making recipe? It did come with a measuring jug and spoon so all is not lost? If someone…
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Stardrops and Kitchen Cupboards
Hi, got really enthused about OS stuff reading on this board, so (like many before me) i've bought my Stardrops. I've got a question about how to use it. I'd like to use it on the front of my kitchen cupboards. Do I dilute it,and if so, how much? And do I need to rinse it off? Same question for laminate floors. What's the…
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Question about heather
I love my allotment and I hate slugs and snails. I would rather slugs stayed away from our plot, as I dislike the idea of slug pellets. I used slug pellets a couple of times, and it looked like slug masaca, yak! I think I found a solution! I am going to plant slug ressistant plants like lavender and rosemarry on the…
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Any Mackems Out There Know About Leek Pudding?
My mackem DH is nagging me to make a leek pudding like his mam used to make. Unfortunately she is dead now so I can't ask her. Anyone know how to make it? I would like to suprise him when he comes home from deployment in December. While I'm here anyone know how to make a corned beef hash mackem style with baked beans?…
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Washing Machine Disaster - Advice Please
My washing machine has just packed up, but not before depositing oil(?) all over the load of whites it was washing. A complete load of the boys school shirts are now covered in black polka dots. They seems to have the pattern of the dimples in the drum spread across them. :eek: Can anyone advise how I should attempt to…
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Daily thread, what do you think?
:hello: Good Day to my fellow OS'ers :) Yes, I'm beginning the thread incredibly early, but I have a reason and I hope you'll all bear with me while I explain it. It's been brought to my attention, that the daily thread is now becoming somewhat removed, in some people's perception, from it's original "intended" purpose.…
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How OS?!
Well, I have to admit this site, and this board in particular, is addictive, but I didn't realise how much it was affecting me until this morning. I had to clean the kitchen floor (kids, mud, guests on the way - you get the idea). Now usually it's a spray mop job, but today for some reason I had the urge to do it…
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what can I eat the day before barium xray?
I am absolutely starving - not because there is no food in the house but I am having a barium xray tomorrow.:eek: My letter says I can have watery soup, so I have had a cuppa soup then sieved the vegies out. I can't face bovil cubes and now my son has made himself some corned beef mash - I am pretty tempted to try some but…
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Help I've got a Zander
Hi all Someone has given my OH a Zander. this is a BIG fish from the canal. The only ref on the web seems to be that it is a bit like a pike. Well i am going to have to cook this. Probably weighs about 10lb. Any ideas what to do with it.
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Any ideas for greek yoghurt??
I ended up with a large tub of greek yoghurt from an asda delivery (an extra!!) it tastes disgusting but i am loathe to throw it out!! Any idea's ?
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Tin (?) sink tarnished - any ideas?
We brought a silver coloured metal sink (I suspect tin or similar) back from Morocco when we were over at Christmas. It was all plumbed in yesterday and has only been used once or twice but is starting to tarnish very slightly already. It's a fairly dark rust colour (although I've seen enough rust in my time to know it…
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Can anyone advise me on my carrots
I have been following the veg growing threads on here this year and have grown veg for the first time and was quite pleased with the results except for my carrots which turned out all knobbly and twisted I used the square foot gardening principle, my plot was approx 4 x 4 and about 9 inches deep, I wondered if the depth…
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cheap bovril?
anybody know where you can buy jars of Bovril cheaper? i've been paying £2.50 in Morrisons and Tesco but thought it must be cheaper elsewhere....but where?:confused: I know it's expensive, but i love a mug of it on cold winter nights, so it's not as if i buy it all year round, just wana get it cheaper if i can!
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Stinky Suit
In the middle of August I had the misfortune to get stuck on the train from hell going to Cardiff for an interview in my best suit As a result the suit I was wearing smells like the inside of one of British Rail's finest, so far its had 2 dry cleans and 90% of a bottle of febreze over and been hung on the line outside for…
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Panny BM - Urgent!!!!!
Hi All I tried to make a wholemeal loaf in my bm a few weeks ago, it included honey - not from the bm recipe book, but after the three hours (it recommended rapid) the bread was an unholy mess. Not mixed properly atall. OK now I am trying again and my panny seems to be struggling to mix the dough. Do you think there is a…
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curtain dilemma please help!
Hi guys, Some of you may know that I recently rehomed my cat (due to extremely allergic BF) So now although the cat is gone I have a horrible flea outbreak (think I'm favourite on the menu :eek: ) and right now I am trying to do a mega deep clean/ cat hair removal/ thorough vacuum/ flea spray etc etc. I just took down the…
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Home cooked Gammon Ham
Hi Ladies I bought a gammon ham from the butchers this week for £10.50. I roasted it in the oven with a mustard and honey glaze and we had it for tea. Did lunch the next day, then DH & I had it chopped in part-baked rolls with cheese and onion melted in over (yum). Carved up what was left and enough for Dh and DD's to have…
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organic vegbox vs local greengrocer
I wonder what your opinions are on this? I have been thinking about ordering the organic vegboxes on home delivery by riverford farm (riverford.co.uk) but wonder if I could get a lot more for my money just by visiting local greengrocers? You'd think, being in Devon that we would have great farmers markets, but the ones…
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OS Planning.
We plan our meals, we plan Christmas 6 or even 12mths in advance, we draw up budget plans, set ourselves grocery targets; we take up grocery challenges, flylady challenges, pin money challenges, sewing/craft challenges; pretty impressive stuff! :T :T :T But, what is it all for? What are your life plans? What longer term…
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Eating disorders
Hi All Could do with all the wisdom and knowledge of you kind people to give me some ideas for a menu plan for my 17yr old step daughter who suffers from bulimia(she is on the mend, we hope). She is very careful what she eats and is a vegetarian, however I have just persuaded her to eat fish temporarily as her diet has…
