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Os Daily Thurs 24th May 2007
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for today. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in,…
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Womens weekly patterns help
My mother made me a rag doll around 1977, based on a womans weekly pattern. I would like to make the same one for my daughter. does anyone know where I might get hold of some back issues or a library of paterns? Thank you
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Washing up liquid
I used this trick when I was skint. If you either get that cheap washing up liquid, the stuff that's very thin, or get some of the branded stuff and dilute it half and half with water, you can thicken it right back up by adding table salt so it lasts twice as long. Weird but true. Just don't use it for cleaning the car -…
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Pastry - what have I done wrong?
The last few times I've made tried and tested favourites - pies, quiches and flans that we all love, my pastry has been soggy and undercooked on the bottom. I'm doing nothing different. I din't used to bake the base of quiches blind, but even tried that tonight and no - still soggy. Not happy, not happy at all! What am I…
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Underwhelmed by Magimix...
We had a bit of wedding money left over and I bought a Magimix 5200 and thought I'd use it loads. But I'm very unimpressed by it. I've tried 3 different recipes for bread - apparently this machine should make professional quality - but 2 sat there stodgy and nasty as they weren't kneaded properly and yesterday's attempt…
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Dry Cleaning Dilemma
I have a lovely dress - but it's linen, with a Polyester lining. The label says dry clean only. Is it safe to hand wash? Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you
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Kenwood major mixer - Worth buying ?
Hello , My fist post in Money Saving old syle. I have been offered a very good price on a Kenwood Major mixer . These are the huge industrial looking Kenwood mixers with a dough hook, K beater & Whisk. My grandmother had an old Kenwood that she used over a 40 year period and was very happy with. My wife and I occasionally…
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Making chicken last.
I have found out now what you are all talking about when you refer to rubber chicken. :o But I cannot for the life of me see how to make it last for several day???:confused: I buy a large Tesco chicken and roast it. It does one meal for 2 adults and 2 small children (just using the breasts) then my hubby will have the legs…
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Alternative use for body pouffe
So pleased with myself I just had to share it. I had one of those body pouffe's you use in the shower that was starting to come unravelled. So I unravelled it all, tied a knot in the bottom and stuffed all my boy's bath toys into it.:T I just need to find a way of fixing it over the shower head and it will be a great way…
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Where am I going wrong? (Yeast dough)
I'm not useless in the kitchen, I'm really not. But when it comes to baking any sort of delicacy that requires a yeast based dough, it all goes horribly wrong. I'd love to make croissants, pains aux chocolat and butteries/rowies from time to time as a special treat, but I just can't. It all goes horribly wrong and ends up…
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OS Aeroplane food?
Hi OSrs Can you help me plan my airplane food for tommorrow night? The trouble is I have to get it ready tonight and we don't fly until tomorrow night (but Im working all day and heading straight to airport from work). On this occasion I don't mind including pre-packaged stuff etc. The in flight meals were supposed to be…
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got a mouldy caravan help!!!!!
HI Has anyone here got a touring caravan? Basically, we put it away last august for the winter and we went up last night to check it out before we go away Friday..and oh dear what a mess It smelt soooo musty and theres mould grown everywhere poss!! Probably because we cant ventilate it any way. Any suggestions what to do…
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Baking classics
What are the cakes and biscuits that you make week in, week out for your family? I'm always on the look out for quick staples to fill the tins: The things I make all the time are: fairy buns Mr Bad Examples choc yoghurt cake (with soya yoghurt) flapjacks Bero choc brownies (a new discovery) Biscuits are ok but I find…
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Own brand washing powder ?
I seem to remember reading a thread about this topic somewhere but I can't find it anywhere. My DS has excema & is very sensitive, he really flared up a while ago & after lots of trials & experiments he settled with Persil Non bio (as well as his creams obviously). When shopping in Asda the other day I noticed their own…
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OS DAILY WEDS 23rd MAY
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for today. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in,…
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Breadmaker confusion
I've just been researching breadmakers, and the Panasonic SD253 and Morphy Richards Fastbake appear to be bringing up exactly the same details on Amazon.co.uk :confused: Are they in fact the same product?
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What am I missing
Everyone on this board seems to rate slow cookers, can someone please tell me why there so good. Never used or known anyone in the family with one but might be tempted if the reasons were good :beer:
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where can I get cheap but good fresh lobster?
I am having a friends to dinner type evening Saturday and everyone is really going to town on the courses they are making. I am doing the fish course and was thinking lobster in some sort of champage sauce (maybe I'll use cava!) dinner party is for 8 so a little worried on cost of this. Any sugestions very welcome. x x x x
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Cleaning Taps
What's the best way to clean up taps? Our bathroom suite has "brass" coloured taps which are looking a little worse for wear, but instead of paying out for new ones what's the best thing to clean them with to try and shine them up a bit ? Also, what's the best thing for getting rid of stains on stainless steel ? It looks…
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no bicarb!
I did a silly thing. I was cleaning with bicarb yesterday and got water in my bicarb tub, it's all gone now! The problem comes here: i am now short of 1tsp bicarb for my cake. It calls for 2tsp baking powder and 1tsp bicarb. Should I just chuck in an extra tsp of baking powder? thanks!
