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OS Daily Tuesday 9th June 2009
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Munday 8th June. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved…
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Be-Ro Cookbook
Just had a thought as I used my dog-eared well used Be-ro Cookbook tonight, as to whether it is still available, and it is, it can be ordered detail here It cots £1.50 and has all the basic cooking info for real OS food. DG
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WAshing machine help
Just got a new washing machine, first brand newie we've ever had, and obviously want to keep it working. OH suggested buying calgon (we live in a hard water area). Is there anything else that does the same thing (but cheaper?) and if not do you really have to use it every wash or can you get away with putting it in every…
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plasticine on a wall-How to remove?
My son stuck his poster to the wall with plasticine-thought it was blu tac until today! it has left an orange greasy stain on the white paint at the four corners which seems to widen as you rub it-what can i use to get it off thanks
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Amount of yeast in breadmaker?
I got an old breadmaker from Freecycle and have made 4 lovely sandwich loaves. The recipe booklet said it took 1/2 sachet yeast which I measured out to be 1 and a wee bit teaspoons - the loaves came up lovely every time. I bought some Doves yeast from Lakeland and put the same amount in - 1 tsp and a bit - and the loaf has…
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things which chnaged into other things
i had a bit of a new smoked fish, some river cobbker i bought cheap at tesco, i was going to poach it and serve with mash, but today in tesco i found in the reduced some ordinary cod for only a £1 so i am going to make a proper fish pie instead! (i only ever make it when i have both smoked and ordinary fish( :beer: did you…
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OS Daily MOnday 8th June 09
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Munday 8th June. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved…
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What to do withs loads of left over fudge?
Ive finally made it to end of my Christmas sweeties and Ive got a bag of thorntons fudge left - however I dont really like fudge and have no idea what to do with it? Not sure if I can melt it or add it to cakes or something? If it was toffee Id quite happily melt it down with marshmallows and rice crispies but fudge??…
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Camping Mealplans
Hi all- really hope you can help! I am taking two teenagers camping for the first time in a few weeks and haven't a clue how to go about mealplanning. We won't have a great deal of money, so I want to avoid eating out, or relying on expensive camp shops, and take as much as I can with me - but obviously with all the…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 8th June 2009
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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Need your help please, mincer choice?
Ok, I'm going to do it. I've decided not to go on holiday! I want to overpay the mortgage a bit on the 4th of July. But also I want to buy a mincer. Can you help me decide please? If I buy it, it'll be an expense I'll have to justify to myself, and the only way of doing that is to make sure it gets used once a week and…
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Basic stir fry sauce recipe
Hi all, Does anyone have a basic stir fry recipe?? Got the veggies ready and also bought a bottle of soy sauce and a bottle of rice vinegar as they were cheap :) So any help would be appreciated,
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Anyone know where I can get a Condiment storage tray from?
Does anyone know where I can get a condiment storage tray for the fridge from? The sort which you can put all the ketchup, mayo, BBQ sauce bottles in and just take out the whole tray at dinner time? Apparently Lakeland used to do them but I can't seem to find them on the website anymore? kel
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Anyone else remember?
Hi Hope you can help, I remember my Gran had a machine for scraping new potatoes - maybe 35 years ago mind you. It was like a salad spinner, we kids used to take turns spinning the handle on top, the inside was like sandpaper and I think you connected it to the cold tap. I'm really fed up scraping new pototoes now and…
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OS Daily Thread - Sunday 7th June
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Sunday 7th June. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved…
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Non stick cooking liners in Poundland
They had these in Poundland today, measuring 25cms x33cms. I haven't tried them yet, but they're PTFE coated and would appear to do the same as the Lakeland ones. I've posted this in the Poundland thread on the Grabbit board, but thought there would be more interest here.
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Jamie Oliver pork kebab recipe on Saturday Kitchen today
Anyone see this earlier today? I thought it looked great, have gone and bought the loin of pork to roast, am just about to start preparing it, but can't for the life of me remember what to put in the marinade. I've looked on the Sat Kitchen website - I can't see the recipe - and even if it was on iplayer (and I don't think…
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How many scotch bonnets
The DW and I love hot curries, and tonight are going to make one with Curry Queen/Kris Dhillon's base curry sauce. We bought some light green scotch bonnets from tescos (because we like it hot!) but I have no idea how many to use / how to prepare them. The packet says to remove ALL seeds if chopping them up, or to add them…
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please help me
i am really struggling with reducing the price of my trolley in asda. any suggestions? the more i try the worse it gets. i need to get it belw £50 including delivery. is it mission impossible? Stir fry sauce - chow mein 3£1.50 Stir fry sauce - oyster 2£1.00 Egg tagliatelle1£0.95 Baked beans 3£1.86 Spaghetti loops2£0.28…
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how old when you learned to cook
i was astounded to find out how many of my friends cannot cook im in my 20s living with dp and have 2nd baby on the way and half of my friends are still living at home and can just about manage to pop i few holes in the lid of a ping dinner and shove it in the microwave. at wrok the other day i can accoss a 18 yr old who…
