50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

zarazara

chestnut puree? whip up some double cream, add sugar to taste and stir in some of the puree. serve with shortbread biscuits.

frugalswan

I'm back from my lovely little trip to see the soon to be sister in law, and I had a lovely time making these this morning:




Sugar and Spice Rings

Taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cooking (if I remember rightly!), this is one of my favourite cake recipes. It always wins approving comments whenever I make them; indeed sometimes I am specifically asked to make them. It just goes to show that even something that dates back to the 70s can still be good!
Sugar and Spice Rings

1/2lb flour
1/4pt milk
pinch of salt
1oz of butter

For the filling:

2oz mixed dried fruit
1oz sugar
1oz butter
1 tsp cinnamon

How to:

1)Sift the flour into a large bowl and add in the pinch of salt. Rub the butter in until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
2)Add the milk all at once and stir until you get a smooth, non-sticky dough. Knead until well mixed.
3)Roll out into a rectangle of about 8” by 11”.
4)Melt the butter in a saucepan and pour over the rolled out dough.
5)Mix the cinnamon with the sugar and add the dried fruit. Pour the mixture over the buttered dough.
6)Roll the mixture up like a Swiss roll, sealing the ends.
7)Cut into about 12 pieces and arrange in a cake tin.
8 ) Bake in an oven preheated to Gas Mark 7 for 15-20 minutes, until golden and cooked. Pull apart to serve. Best served warm.

Hope that helps.

x Swan x

ceridwen

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Who ME? :rotfl: wouldn't know where to start... me n computers are only very fleeting friends

I love the idea of a blog..but wouldn't know how to go about it.... so i read everyone elses instead..oh the shame

Well....you didnt think I would be able to resist coming back on that one did ya?:rotfl:

I reckon Blogger is the easiest - and if I can manage it then I reckon most people can - as me and computers are definitely not "best buddies". I am pretty much as computer-illiterate as they come.......

http://www.blogger.com/

and that brings you to Blogger's start-up page to start up a new blog...it took p.c. duffer me about 10 minutes...;)

ceridwen

Very moneysaving Weezl ways - got myself some cooking apples for total cost of 0p (cant improve on that:D ). Wondering whether I can stew them up in t'usual way - with leetle water and bit of honey - and then freeze them in containers for subsequent use as porridge topping?

Anyone frozen stewed apple?

signed
ceridwen
(who taught herself to cook from cookbooks - duh!)

DawnW

stewed apple is fine to freeze.

JayJay14

Ceridwen - if you open freeze your stewed apple in thin flat discs you could put them on your porridge straight from the freezer - defrost really quickly and cooldown you porridge in one easy step!!

Boodle

I've been testing a Xmas pud recipe today. It was to be cooked in the microwave but on cooling it has gone quite hard and dried out. I have wrapped well in foil. Does anyone know if it will soften up again on resteaming? The bit I "tested" straight after cooking was delish!

Thanx in advance.xxx.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi boodle...

If you wrap it in greaseproof and then in foil the foil won't tarnish and risk tainting your pud
Also i would open it up every month or so and feed it a drop of alcohol..that should moisten it up:D
Must get mine made soon and the cake :T ..have 2 jars of HM mincemeat in the cupboard.. 3 years old now but fed every so often with alcohol and it is stunning:j

Ceridwen..thanks for the link..i will see if i can make sense of it in a moment :rotfl:

Boodle

Ooh thanks for the tips! I will do. I think perhaps it is what cooking in the microwave does to "baked" stuff as memories are coming back to me... a sponge pud that dried up on me from the outside-in after initial yumminess. Hopefully the "feeding" will moisten it back up.

ceridwen

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Ceridwen..thanks for the link..i will see if i can make sense of it in a moment :rotfl:

Any questions - you can always come back to me on it.

Still picking up "fancy" add-on bits and bobs - just realised today I can run a poll on my blog if I want. Think this could be a new bit. Blogger do seem to have made things more user-friendly since I started up mine.