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easy and quick cakes
can anyone recomend some easy and quick cake or biscuit recepies please. :D we are cutting down on spends on these items so would like to make some instead. i tend to make muffins/fairy cakes and can make flapjack and hobnobs.
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how long will cheesecake last?
I was just in Morrisons and found one of their New York deli style cheesecakes reduced down to £1.49. Not the sort of thing I would usually by but thought I would treat myself. However, it says use by today. Is there any reason why it won't last until tomorrow? It also says you can't freeze it? Is there any reason why this…
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Alternative to Soap Powder?
Hi all, Things are very tight this month and I am trying very hard not to spend any money.......But....I have run out of soap powder and with a mucky husband and two young children it is abit disasterous. ;) . Has anyone ever used something alternative, like Fairy liquid or shampoo to put in the washing machine? I could go…
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What to do with dough that did not rise?
Help please! A couple of hours ago I got some bread going but the yeast must be too old and the dough has not risen at all. It is not exactly warm here, but I put it on the bedside cabinet in the sun. However, no swelling. How can I salvage it? And if not salvageable as bread, how can I use it? It would be a shame to throw…
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Drying Onions?
Can anyone give advice how, without using a dessiscator, we can easily dry out onions so that we can bottle up them dried out for use at a later date please?
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The term housewife!
I heard it on the news this morning that the term housewife was deragatory and it should be called domestic seo when you take into consideration all the jobs. Do you like the term?
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Stewing fruit in slow cooker
Hi everyone! I've had a search through the recipes indexes and slow cooker threads but couldn't find out how to do this so apologies if I've missed it somewhere. Has anyone stewed or cooked fruit in the slow cooker and if so do you have any tips/ recipes? I'm looking to try stewing fruit that I can then add to yoghurt/…
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Dye Fixing
I bought a pair of cotton pyjama bottoms off ebay, and discovered when I got them that they aren't colourfast. I've washed them once, but they are still giving off blue dye, so I wondered if there was anything I could do to fix the dye rather than wash them until they fade. I was thinking of perhaps with vinegar, or salt…
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Are frozen turkeys any good for Christmas Lunch?
Hi all, There will be 11 of us for Christmas lunch this year :eek:. I thought I might try to keep costs down by buying any frozen items I need while Tesco are doing their clubcard double up promotion on all frozen foods. While I was looking at the frozen food dept, I suddenly remembered about frozen turkeys! I have never…
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Bulk Buying Pulses etc
Hello We are on a very tight budget and I have been buying more things in bulk like giant nets of onions for £1.49 instead of the same price for 4 onions :eek:. This got me thinking that bulk buying other things might be better for us.So far we have only bulk bought rice and onions however I was wondering where is the best…
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Best margarine for cakes
Hi everyone I usually use butter but this gets expensive! Can someone please recommend me a margarine? Thank you!
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Kale, spinach and greens recipes- help!
Ok so I had some bad new yesterday from my optometrist which is that I am at risk of getting age related macular degeneration in my eyes when I am older as I have some deposits on my eye that shouldn't be there. He said that to try and prevent this, I need to eat a) lots of foods containing lutein-zeaxanthin which is…
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Popperwell: are you ok?
Not posted for a while and concerned
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O/S Daily Sunday 25 November 2012
O/S Daily Sunday 25 November 2012 O/S Daily Thread Sunday 25 November 2012 Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 25 November 2012. 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…
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recommend built in oven
Hi all looking to replace a bu.ilt in single oven which we have had for a number of years. I want one that I can just unpack and plug in, just like the one it will be replacing. However a few of the models I have looked at say they must be hard wired and I do not want to go down that road as I know it is not necessary for…
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Prue Leith in the Daily Mail - £50 a week menu
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2237634/Feed-family-50-week-Top-cook-Prue-Leith-shows--wont-just-eating-baked-beans.html Thought some people on here would like to see Prue's take on an OS budget! Seven days worth with recipes. Kate
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McGregor Pinotage Wine, Vintage 2005...to drink, or not to drink?
Evening all, right, having the girls over tonight for a pamper session and i have a new bottle of white, new bottle of rose and a new bottle of red...oh no i haven't i've got a bottle of red that's been sat in my pantry for about 4 years? Is it safe? Does red wine go off...will i be able to tell if it has...i don't drink…
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Ginger wine - possible without brewing????
My uncle made fabulous ginger wine :beer:. The older it got, the thicker :T. I'm not exactly old style but I fancied making some so had a look at recipes, only to find they are all done with yeast etc. I'm certain my uncle didn't do any of that (unfortunately he and family are all gone now :( ). I naively thought it would…
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length of curtains
ok. the exchange has gone through . and we are looking at needing to buy some new curtains ( currently have made to measure blinds at the windows so need to leave them here) now the windows in question have the rads right underneath them. so is it better to have the curtains floor length and go right over the rads or to…
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O/S Daily Saturday 24 November 2012
O/S Daily Thread Saturday 24 November 2012 Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Friday 24 November 2012. 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…
