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Weekly Flylady Thread 5th May 2008
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to enjoy it! Following requests to start things steadier for…
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Crumbly Fruitcake
No, it's not a new poster on OS, but it's what I'm ending up with at the moment. I buy the bags of cheap mixed fruit....41p a Kg and soak in a bit of alcohol overnight just to plump up the fruit. My recipe is a Schwartz one, Light Fruit Cake but I have now started doubling the recipe and beating the dry mix/eggs/fat then…
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ran out of van.essence and I'm baking a cake
Help, will it be ok ingredients require a teaspoon but as I'm doublig quanty it will be two teaspoons should I give up and go shop,will have to drive and just walked to local one and they don't have any......
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suet duff?
hi there am wanting to make a suet duff to go with the roast dinner today can someone tell me how to make it please? thanks ash x
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The leftover bits from stock?
When you make stock from the chicken carcass,onion,carrot,celery etc,is there anything you can do with those things once you have cooked them?
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how do I get a juicy chicken?
Hi I know this is probably a stupid question...but everytime I cook a chicken it ends up dry.:confused: Is there a way to make it all juicy and moist like in the shops? I dont do anything to it just clean it and shove it in the oven till juices run clear. please help as I am doing one later and would like it to be nice for…
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Need to bake 300 scones v.v. cheaply
As the title says I need to cook 300 scones very very cheaply for next weeks school fundraiser. The local bakery quoted £100 which is just outrageous so I stupidly said I'd make 'em but...... (1) if I make them using stork will they taste really greasy? is there a supermarket own brand marg that will taste better or work…
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Daily Thread Sunday 4th May
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday, 4th May. 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…
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how many will these joints feed?
popped into asda on my lunch break today and they had loads of yellow stickered meat. i picked up a 500kg joint of topside beef and a 800kg joint of pork for under £5 :j but as i have never done a 'roast' with anything other than a chicken before, i have no idea how many reasonable servings i should expect to get out of…
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Can I BBQ butternut squash???
Evening all, Having a BBQ tomorrow and I have got a butternut squash needs using. Can I thread pieces of it onto skewers with my chicken,onion wedges etc? Thanks in advance Rebecca x
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Jumbleberry crumble
Does any one have this recipe please? I saw Nigella just finishing the dish this morning, and it looked gorgeous. I would be very grateful. Many Thanks Chrissy :j
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Yurt Holiday cooking....
We've just booked our first ever yurt holiday (dead excited!!:j ) and I'm just hoping to get some ideas for food as we've never been camping! We will have 2 gas rings and an aga style stove/oven thingy! The first night we get there we'll be fine as I'm planning on freezing a shepherd's pie so it defrosts while we're…
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Desperate help needed with fabric dye
It's not even on the fabric that I need the help with. And not strictly money saving, but I thought it anyone would know the answer, someone on here would! I just hope there's someone out there that's got nothing to do on a bank holiday weekend who has the solution! I have been using Dylon cold water dye. I followed the…
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lovely bread recipie
ok sorry for mixture of measurements but its how i think.. 3lb of wholemeal flour 12g dried yeast 1/2 pinch of salt 2 teaspoons of honey 2 tablespoons of olive oil 1 1/4--1 1/2 pints of warm water... sieve flour and salt together cream a little water with yeast then mix in rest of water with flour...mix a little then add…
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Washing Up Liquid In The Bathroom
I've started using washing up liquid to clean the bath and sink! I use the anti bacteria one with a bathroom sponge just a little amount and it cleans as well, if not better than flash or cif and is a lot cheaper. We trust it to clean our dishes, so why not the bath or sink!!
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Need sugar free recipes - miracle berry makes everything taste sweet
I would like to lose weight, (who wouldn't) but I don't do a great deal about it. I dieted on and off until I was 30, then grew up and give it a rest. Since then (I'm 42) my weight has remained stable but way to high. When I stumbled across the miracle berry from some blogs I was reading I was pretty sceptical, but I…
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Savoury biscuits or crackers
I would love some ideas/recipes for savoury biscuits that people make regularly. Would really love some idea of how to make my own crackers as we are spending a fortune on them (OH eats so many :rolleyes: ) and we end up buying a least 3 packets a week! Any help would be great especially if anybody has recipes that don't…
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Can you freeze beer?
As above really, I made beef in beer last night but as usual I have half a bottle left which I have no other use for. Would it be ok to freeze it? Thanks.
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Is it me or have tinned peas gone really awful?
I only buy a couple of tins every few weeks and have tried different brands, but after the last lot i`m not buying anymore.They`re Smedleys and the label says Garden Peas but when i opened them its obvious that they`re Petit Pois peas! I`ve aslo stopped buying marrowfat because they`re so pale when you open the tins you…
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Bread flour
Morning all I bought 12 bags of bread flour at mr T's and decided it would probably be best to freeze it but forgot to take some out last night to make my bread this morning does anyone have any idea when it will be ok to use(I took a bag out of the freezer about an hour ago and have just transfered it into a bowl) also I…
