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

cw18

LittleBrownFrog wrote: »

"What are you getting?" "Lentils" "There are no lentils in apple cake" "Yes there are Mummy ... there are lentils in EVERYTHING" :rotfl::rotfl:

Awwwww! Bless him :rotfl:

jtb2412

Munchki - yes, for each 1lb of fruit use 1lb sugar.

I've just looked in my jam book and it says that because cherries are naturally low in pectin, make sure you use sugar with added pectin (you probably already know that though ).

Cherry Jam is one of my favourites - wish I managed to find some as cheap as you did ! Well done !

Good luck with it !

BASHFUL_2

Its so vile isnt it rainbow!!!! Glad I werent over reacting!!!

Thanks Munchki...its great isnt. I bet all your grown up kids really appreciate it more, I think its more thoughtful. This is my first attempt at them, so fingers crossed they go down well!!!

Foxy-Tigger...thanks for the heads up on the crepe paper, will have a look next time I venture over there. That would be really good for the bottom of the baskets.

Hope everyone is well...hugs for all that need them and a big welcome to cherry x x x

CW18, that is such a good idea. Might try something like that for my mum and dads next big anniversary, be a while yet though, as only just had their pearl.

BASHFUL_2

this is the link to the other thread, well i thinks its a link, im not too sure if i can do it crafty for christmas 2008

munchki

jtb2412 wrote: »

Munchki - yes, for each 1lb of fruit use 1lb sugar.

I've just looked in my jam book and it says that because cherries are naturally low in pectin, make sure you use sugar with added pectin (you probably already know that though ).

Cherry Jam is one of my favourites - wish I managed to find some as cheap as you did ! Well done !

Good luck with it !

Thank you again for this. Thought that might be the case but did not want to waste the cherries. Also going to add about 3/4 amaretto to the mixture, should be lovely:j BTW, got the cherries at Asda where they are on sale this week for a £1, least at my local one here. Bought 8 packs of them, so jam for some and other goodies for the rest this winter. Already had two bags in the freezer that we got in kent in july. Hubby thinks can never have enough cherries!

Bunny200

jtb2412 wrote: »

I had to pop into Sainsbury's today for some shopping for work and while I was in there they had supercook marzipan reduced from £3.99 to £1 :eek: . I must confess I bought some as I've been toying with the idea of making Xmas cakes instead of the puddings and this kind of made up my mind for me.

They also had cooking chocolate (Dr. Oetker (sp?) for 44p reduced from £1.88 !!! I bought a 'few' packets of that too :T .

Can still get some good bargains on the Supercook/Dr Oetker products, I've stockpiled on red food colouring (15p) and hundreds and thousands. I've got 2 girls so pink icing is a must in our house! I always have a little look at that aisle when I go shopping just to make sure I'm not missing anything!:T

phizzimum

LittleBrownFrog wrote: »

"There are no lentils in apple cake" "Yes there are Mummy ... there are lentils in EVERYTHING" :rotfl::rotfl:

I love this story - we could print t shirts with that as the slogan!

ok, so how long before someone posts a recipe for lentil and apple loaf?

(prawn and lentil curry for dinner tonight)

tattoed_bum

hi plum pie here is an easy fudge recipe

tin condensed milk
150ml milk
1lb demerara sugar
4 oz butter

gently heat all ingredients together until sugar disolves
bring to the boil and simmer for 10-15 mins stirring continuosly
remove from the heat and beat until grainy
add choc coffee ,coconut at beating stage
refridgerate till set


good luck with it

shaz_mum_of__2

tattoed_bum wrote: »

hi plum pie here is an easy fudge recipe

tin condensed milk
150ml milk
1lb demerara sugar
4 oz butter

gently heat all ingredients together until sugar disolves
bring to the boil and simmer for 10-15 mins stirring continuosly
remove from the heat and beat until grainy
add choc coffee ,coconut at beating stage
refridgerate till set


good luck with it

thanks for this you've made it sound easy ...............made fudge a couple times only really happy with it once!!!

Is all that soft ball stage i get too caught up in technical and stop being artistic

What quantity choc do you add to a batch this size??


TIA

Shaz - decorating but not disappeared .............................and definitely not preggers :rotfl: :rotfl:

ps anyone ever used this company???
http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/

tattoed_bum

hi shaz i would use 6oz of chocolate for this mix or 4oz of raisins and a tablespoon rum for this ,or 4 oz of chopped nuts

you can even use low fat condensed milk in it