Cookeen Should I use it?

The_Biff

Check if the cookeen (& lard) contains hydrogenated vegetable oils. These are reputed to be very bad for you.
I am no pastry expert but I only make it with butter & it seems to work well.

16011996

thanks math, will give that a go, isn't too different from what i do, but mine seems to set quite hard. :-/

MATH

160, Add more syrup and serve slightly warm. I always serve min hot with a couple of gallons of cussy

Sarahsaver

Check if the cookeen (& lard) contains hydrogenated vegetable oils. These are reputed to be very bad for you.
I am no pastry expert but I only make it with butter & it seems to work well.

Lard should not contain veg oils at all because it is made of pig fat. The last time i bought lard, for making soap, was in the co-op.
From what I know about pastry, the pastry is crisper if you use lard or suet, than if you use butter or marg.

16011996

thanks, will do. we always have ours with milk, but custard sounds good.

160, Add more syrup and serve slightly warm. I always serve min hot with a couple of gallons of cussy

16011996

mmm, that sounds good too sheel.

can you freeze it once its cooked, we always tend to eat it all, but thinking of doing double if i can freeze it.

MATH

I've tried that old make double for the freezer trick but the gannets just eat double - still waiting for some to be allowed to get luke warm leat alone frozen

16011996

maybe that a bad idea then. ;D

Quackers

160

I use a really basic recipe from the Dairy Book of Homecookery which is out of print now but you can still pick it up in discount bookshops - really good to non fancy everyday food.

I got this recipe book when I first got married and it has been the most used recipe book in our house. I'm sure I got it from the milkman? Mine is battered and bruised and my mum says it looks like its full of germs :-/

I've been looking for a new/updated one for ages - now I know why I cant find one

COOKEEN - Oh my goodness. Took me back to being a little girl. My Nan always used Cookeen - swore by it. didn't know it still existed. And her pastry was always fanbloodytastic ;D I'm a veggie now so wont use it but it always makes me smile ;D

MATH

Quakers: Cookeen is made of refined vegetable fats, should be OK for veggies HTH