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recipe for homemade chocolate mints?
Last year I remember reading a thread about homemade sweets and chocolate including one about mashing up trebor mints into chocolate.I have searched several of the forums but cant seem to find it again.Can anyone help please?
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Help needed buying and calculating food portions + budgeting for diet!
My OH and I have recently moved into a new house from living with parents, and we're on a tight budget, as at the moment we're both unemployed, so we're trying to budget our food shopping as much as possible - Preferably to £25 per week for both of us. We have cats too so we need to take them into account. Another thing…
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Rinse Aid?
Can I use malt vinegar as rinse aid in the dishwasher? I have run out of rinse aid and it has the light on telling me to fill up but in this weather i don't want to brave the elements for rinse aid
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Stew question
I recently made a stew but OH decided he didn't want it for dinner, I froze the stew with the intention of eating it another time. OH hates to eat frozen leftovers. Will refuse to. Can i stick the stew into the slow cooker and fool him into thinking it's fresh?? it's all in his head, so if he thinks it's fresh will it turn…
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Kenwood K Mix
OK - I am a keen cook and bake regularly, whilst watching some of the Christmas cookery programmes with OH I was lusting after the food mixers. He has only gone a bought me a Kenwood K Mix for Christmas, (after agreeing to a £50 spend each!) I am now abit :eek: at the thought of him spending all that money on me. Please…
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os frozen pipe unblocking help please
my shower plughole is blocked in the loft bathroom and its cold in the access cupboard, the bloke says its frozen so can i pour anti freeze down to unblock it, does anyone know please?
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Free 2011 Old Style Calendar to download and print
Hi all, The new and improved Old Style Calendar is now available for download. It is now available to download in pdf format: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/607165/2012%20calendar.pdf Thanks to Bitsy Beans, esmf73, ifonlyitwaseasier, JuliaGeorgiana, rosieben, RAS and BigMammaF for their contributions - not to mention everyone…
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Shearling jacket - help please!
So, after a long time of saving I finally purchased a much wanted Shearling jacket. It was one of the light tan coloured ones. I had this thing a week!!!! Came home, took jacket off, put it over the table so I could get the fire lit etc and then went to hang it up....to find a big red stain on the shoulder!!!…
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What speed do you spin your washing?
I've just noticed that our old "on its last legs" washing machine spins at either 1000 rpm and 500 rpm which after googling I realise is quite slow. When I was living away in the week my landlady's machine spun at 1600 rpm top speed and the programme I washed my "delicates" on spun at 900 rpm. Whereas the delicates prog on…
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OS Daily Tuesday 21st Dec
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Tue 21st Dec. 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 already.…
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Vintage bread bin. Advice please!
Hi all...i have a lovely painted vintage bread bin. I think its made of tin but not sure. Anyway,the inside had black rust type marks on it. I tried everything to remove the marks but ended up painting the inside of the bread bin with white gloss paint. It looks fine but i cant use it now, as it smells of paint! I wanted…
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puff pastry & jam ideas
ive got a load of puff pastry defrosting and apart from the usual savoury dishes im struggling to think of some sweets to make with it i have jam,icing sugar and the pastry so im thinking of doing a sort of danish pastry with them anyone else have any ideas thanks x
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how to wash a really dirty ironing board cover?
really getting into the swing of cooking and trying to get into cleaning too! Just notices how filthy my ironing board cover is, as well as my iron sole plate which has black marks on it. I have washed the cover a few times, but it is quite stained looking, brown water and dirt stains..? Any tips for getting it really…
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Gammon in SC from Frozen... Help asap please :)
I have a gammon in the freezer and am running out of food (ill and waiting on MrT delivery on Wed) so I was wondering if I can put the gammon in the SC overnight from frozen? What do you think? Thanks all xx
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Christmas leftovers
What do you do with your leftovers from Christmas? [threadbanner] box [/threadbanner]
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Festive non-christmas cake?
:) We don't have a christmas cake as neither of us like rich fruit cake, we don't have christmas pudding as it's too heavy. I was veering towards a sponge cake with the fruit mixed in but can't seem to find a recipe. Can't make a yule log as I haven't got a swiss roll tin. any other festive cakes that you make because…
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a few questions about cooking gammon, if you could help?
im planning on cooking gammon in cola for xmas eve. dh has bought the gammon and it comes in a net. last time we removed this before cooking it swelled right up! and when ive kept it on and removed when cooked its took the top layer off with it. so i was thinking of removing the net prior to cooking and replcing it with…
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can I freeze sheeps milk cheese?
or failing that something to do with it. I have a big block that I didnt realise was up to its sell by date and I dont just want to throw it. Its fairly crumbly in texture-bit like feta type cheese
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think there's a part missing from old food processor...
Hiya oldstylers Have just dusted down a Biffinet food processor that;s been sitting on top of the kitchen cupboard for a few years...probaby only used it one or twice but hoping to use it more now. Have washed it and it works!! BUT i must be missing a bit - there should be a round steel disc to fit the different slicing…
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HELP please-worried about the New Year and keeping to budget.
Sorry if I'm wrong in starting up a new thread and should really have posted on an existing one. My problem is that my hband is going to lose his job in Feb, although he is going to set a small business from home, that will take a year at least to take off. I have a reasonable income and we can live on it, but with…
