Water in Meats

pulliptears

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Bet yous love my recipe for Steamed Chocolate Sponge to go with it though?

Yep Though I dont tend to cook things like that, I keep us mostly on fairly low fat foods and traditional meals (shepherds pie cooking as I type). Chips are a rarity in this house as I usually give them pasta and the like instead. Chocolate sponges are a treat!

Freddie_Snowbits

pulliptears wrote: »

Chocolate sponges are a treat!

Ah, the supposed female form and choccy. They just have to be together.

From Nan a few years back.

4 oz Marge
4 oz Castor Sugar
7 oz ish Self raising Flour
1 oz Cocoa Powder
2 Medium Eggs
(Juice of 1 medium organge) Use zest in mixture if you like.

Cream sugar and marge. Add eggs and fold in flour and coccoa powder.

Grease 2 pint basin. Cover top with grease proof paper. Top basin with tin foil.

Place in steamer for about 90 mins. (Fork or prod to test for cooked)

The organge adds a little bit of tang.

Normally excites Freda once a month!

pulliptears

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Ah, the supposed female form and choccy. They just have to be together.

From Nan a few years back.

4 oz Marge
4 oz Castor Sugar
7 oz ish Self raising Flour
1 oz Cocoa Powder
2 Medium Eggs
(Juice of 1 medium organge) Use zest in mixture if you like.

Cream sugar and marge. Add eggs and fold in flour and coccoa powder.

Grease 2 pint basin. Cover top with grease proof paper. Top basin with tin foil.

Place in steamer for about 90 mins. (Fork or prod to test for cooked)

The organge adds a little bit of tang.

Normally excites Freda once a month!

Sounds good, may try it on sunday!

Freddie_Snowbits

pulliptears wrote: »

Sounds good, may try it on sunday!

Let me know how it goes. Freda is getting Blackberry and Apple Crumble. (She calls it GRUMBLE!)

pulliptears

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Let me know how it goes. Freda is getting Blackberry and Apple Crumble. (She calls it GRUMBLE!)

Will do should I have time to make it, just been told I have to start ripping apart the built in wardrobes in all 3 bedrooms this weekend :eek:

I can see a trip to the chippy! :eek:

Freddie_Snowbits

pulliptears wrote: »

Will do should I have time to make it, just been told I have to start ripping apart the built in wardrobes in all 3 bedrooms this weekend :eek:

I can see a trip to the chippy! :eek:

Don't gets me started on Fish and Chips. No, I've gone. Freda last Friday thought it would be a good idea to go and watch Grimsby Town play footie at the theatre of fish I drove all the way to Grimsby, held up in queues around Birmingham and Nottingham. Did 90 from Doncaster to Cleethorpes Market Place and got into Becketts chippy at 7:15. Heaven. Wolfed them down and well worth it.

Do you need a sledgehammer for the bedrooms? Still, if you make the mix at breakfast, set the time for thrity minutes, you could end up with sledge hammer on the first wardrobe, then add water to the pot, then demolish number 2, then more water to the pot, then do your best with no 3, then put the custard on and whey hey! Bedroom done and Steamed Pud to go with it!

Beats Sunday lunch playing doms while Freda counts her beans any day.

Failing that when Freda and Mes did our last pad, Freda was dab hand with sledge hammer (Woman Possessed!). But whilst kitchen was being done, an excuse to have Sausage and Yorkshire meal deal at the Toby!

pulliptears

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Don't gets me started on Fish and Chips. No, I've gone. Freda last Friday thought it would be a good idea to go and watch Grimsby Town play footie at the theatre of fish I drove all the way to Grimsby, held up in queues around Birmingham and Nottingham. Did 90 from Doncaster to Cleethorpes Market Place and got into Becketts chippy at 7:15. Heaven. Wolfed them down and well worth it.

Do you need a sledgehammer for the bedrooms? Still, if you make the mix at breakfast, set the time for thrity minutes, you could end up with sledge hammer on the first wardrobe, then add water to the pot, then demolish number 2, then more water to the pot, then do your best with no 3, then put the custard on and whey hey! Bedroom done and Steamed Pud to go with it!

Beats Sunday lunch playing doms while Freda counts her beans any day.

Failing that when Freda and Mes did our last pad, Freda was dab hand with sledge hammer (Woman Possessed!). But whilst kitchen was being done, an excuse to have Sausage and Yorkshire meal deal at the Toby!

I shall be needing more than a sledgehammer lol. Not a good idea to rip apart the entire house in one go, but sadly with tradesmen not being as busy at the moment they all seem to be able to do the jobs at once! We are doing the wardrobes, but the bathroom and windows are both scheduled for next week! :eek: Ill probably just chuck something in the slow cooker and be done with.

moggylover

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Sadly this is very true. You need to find a decent butcher - one who actually stores the carcass in the cold room and then butchers it himself. Too many "butchers" are just retailers for the same rubbish that the supermarkets sell, bought from the wholesaler.

My butcher cuts bacon to order, by hand!

So does mine: however he does not cure it himself! Very few do these days.

He does, however, offer three different types, green-back (which is wet cured) smoked (again wet cured) and dry-cured: which is a lot more expensive than the others.:D

Most bacon is cured by immersing in brine solution (and always has been) and only dry-smoked or dry-cured bacon will contain no added water because of this.

Freddie_Snowbits

pulliptears wrote: »

We are doing the wardrobes, but the bathroom and windows are both scheduled for next week! :eek: Ill probably just chuck something in the slow cooker and be done with.

I foresee lots of mess and possibly a box of choccy before Monday, week after next.

pulliptears

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

I foresee lots of mess and possibly a box of choccy before Monday, week after next.

All on hold currently

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