Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

mouseymousey99

Just made the chokky cookies, they look just like the pic (even himself commented on that) and a bit too chokky for me (I get headaches) he will polish them off though. Also made the banana muffins - the mix seemed a bit runny so I cut out some of the milk, they turned out well though.
{MrsE - dont worry its only a small section of puds, as others have said well worth buying (in my humble).}
It got me thinking about how much we waste and I've just started reading this
Waste by Tristram Stuart, toe curling accounts of just how much supermarkets put in the rubbish. I'm not a natural Freegan, but oh the shame of wasting food like that.

rosieben

MrsE wrote: »

Only if you tell us how to make magic lemon pud?

I love lemon puddings.

I just posted 3 Magic Lemon Pudding recipes on the Grocery Challenge recipe list Sorry but I saw your post and then couldnt remember which thread it was on

Puddleglum

This is from Mary Berry's Complete Cook Book p401 and it is only intended to serve 4.
It would have only served 4 but we had 2 visitors pop round at lunch time and were still showing no sign of leaving at half past seven after I had cooked us dinner - you know how it is, eventually you have to give in and ask them if they would like to stay or you will never get to eat!:silenced:

60g (2oz) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
grated zest and juice of 1 large lemon
90g (3oz) caster sugar - I just used granulated.
2 eggs separated
30g (1oz) plain flour
175ml (6floz) milk
600ml (1 pint) shallow ovenproof dish.

preheat oven to 160oC (325F, Gas mark 3)

Beat butter, lemon zest and sugar until pale and fluffy.
Add egg yolks, flour and lemon juice and stir to combine. Gradually stir in milk. (I do all this in the food processor.)
Whisk egg whites until stiff and fold into the lemon mixture.
Pour into greased dish and bake for 40mins or until golden and springy to touch.
This pudding is self saucing so custard and cream etc are optional.

Ishtar

MrsE wrote: »

Another point.

I've just looked at the recipe & I'm going to make half, as the whole lot is waaaaay to much for 3 of us.

Could you do that;)

Thanks for that - had a serious case of mummy brain when I typed my original post....the baby is teething at the mo so sleep is in short supply!

I'll give it a try...

D.

mama67

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

My DD1 did food tech. Four weeks studying the theory of the sandwich. Then they got the practical. Shopping list: 2 slices white bread, 1 jar jam. Next was chicken tarragon. Shopping list - 1 chicken breast, 1 onion, 1 chicken oxo - plus bring £1.50 to pay for the expensive ingredients (1tbsp tarragon vinegar). They produced 4 items all term.

At the end of term, they had the chance to cook anything they wanted. I sent DD1 and her friend in with ingredients for cup cakes, covered in glace icing and edible flowers/crystallised violets/rose petals, etc - really pretty girly things.

Wrote out the instructions. Included usual advice that if the mix curdles, just add some of the flour and keep going - it'll sort itself out. Food Tech 'teacher' was very suspicious and wasn't convinced that flowers were edible. Then made snorting noise when DD1 said the recipe was Mum's. They ignored her and continued their baking. When the teacher saw their cake mix curdle, she shoved them out of the way, snatched mixture and went to throw it in the bin. But DD1 stopped her.

Usually placid DD1 went spare at the woman, asked her exactly where she got her ideas from, as she obviously had never had to actually feed a family real food, and told her, as she had apparently never cooked in real conditions, perhaps she would like to explain to Mum (me) why exactly she had tried to chuck £x worth of perfectly good ingredients - but, if she didn't understand the principles of baking, Mum was very patient and would explain it to her very carefully.

DD1 then went on to complete the cakes with her friend and, when the head popped in to see the class, he asked if he could try one of her 'lovely flower cakes' and remarked that Food Tech teacher was wonderful if they had learned to make things like that with her.

Humph!

Good food tech. teachers are a rare breed indeed.

My DS1 has done Food Tech up until now when he not picked it as a GCSE option, his teacher was more from the "ols school", so they did things like chicken casserole, spag bol, even a Xmas Cake.
She soon learnt though that i would sub ingredients and give appropriate instructions where needed, and just let him get on with it as he was usually finished way ahead of the others, some of whom didn't even know how to butter the bun for their burgers which they made from scratch.

DS2 is now going to the same school and at the moment will be hving the same teacher so fingers crossed all will be well with him as well.

mama67

I run the after school cooking club at the local Primary where Ds2 has just left.

We made things like cakes but also pigs in blankets, bread and butter, apple crumble etc.

This was limited to approx 1 hour and as I was a volunteer it was basically down to me what was made as long as the main ingredients didn't cost more than 50p per child.

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The cookbook did inspire me this afternoon. I had frozen beans and a large (bogof) jar of pasta sauce so I made cheese sauce and made a meatless lasagne. I was reading the book and just thought about what was in my storecupboard, which I am trying hard to run down. The book is inspirational ie it makes you think for yourself

mama67

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Its geed me into storing cheese properly. I wrapped it up in greasproof paper and it'll now live out of the fridge, meant to do that for ages.

My DS2 was watching that with me and told me to take the cheese from out of the fridge. lol!!

Gigervamp

I'd need a proper cheese safe if I kept the cheese out of the fridge, otherwise the cats would devour it! :rotfl:

thriftlady_2

kittie wrote: »

The cookbook did inspire me this afternoon. I had frozen beans and a large (bogof) jar of pasta sauce so I made cheese sauce and made a meatless lasagne. I was reading the book and just thought about what was in my storecupboard, which I am trying hard to run down. The book is inspirational ie it makes you think for yourself

This is how I use all my cookbooks. I think that reading so many has made me a good cook.

Another really excellent book that encourages this way of thinking is
The Thrifty cookbook. I have mentioned it before, but it is worth mentioning again. It teaches you to start from what you have rather than go out and buy a set of ingredients. If you like the Economy Gasronomy approach then you will like this too. However there are no photos, just a few line drawings (nice ones though).