Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

MrsBartolozzi

kingshir wrote: »

I make my brownies from a recipe that appeared in the Jackie Magazine over 40years ago (OMG:eek:). The original recipe had a fudgy topping which I never used as I too prefer my brownies plain. They are an all-in-one mix, get moister in the middle if you can manage to keep them for longer than 24hrs and have a proven 'shelf life' of 3-4 weeks (I sent some through the post to DS in Iraq a couple of years ago and he and his mates devoured them on Xmas morning and pronounced them perfect:p) AND it doesn't have chocolate in it just cocoa or drinking chocolate powder.

Another vote from me - please post this, sounds yum!

Scarlett25

Those brownies sound delish!

I think the chefs will have a bigger challenge tomorrow night with 5 students who can't cook and don't know how to food shop. The families they've featured so far seemed to know how to cook, so it's good to have novice cooks.

The Economy Gastronomy book must be very popular.....I couldn't see it at my local Tescos!

rosieben

Reverbe, I'm curious as to where you went to school? I was at grammar school in the 1960's and we did 9am till 3.45 and took an hour for lunch and a 20 minutes break in the mornings, which was pretty typical for state schools then. I've not heard of any schools doing longer hours except for private schools where they often do saturday mornings too :cool:

rosieben

kingshir wrote: »

I make my brownies from a recipe that appeared in the Jackie Magazine over 40years ago (OMG:eek:)...

any chance you might share the recipe with us please?

oh, I'm in a queue! :rotfl:

MrsE_2

kingshir wrote: »

I make my brownies from a recipe that appeared in the Jackie Magazine over 40years ago (OMG:eek:). The original recipe had a fudgy topping which I never used as I too prefer my brownies plain. They are an all-in-one mix, get moister in the middle if you can manage to keep them for longer than 24hrs and have a proven 'shelf life' of 3-4 weeks (I sent some through the post to DS in Iraq a couple of years ago and he and his mates devoured them on Xmas morning and pronounced them perfect:p) AND it doesn't have chocolate in it just cocoa or drinking chocolate powder.

I used to love that magazine:D

When you post the recipe, can you include the topping:D

Thank you:beer:

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

I just made the treacle tart from last week, but after an hour in the oven it's still runny - slightly burnt, but very runny.

What did I do wrong?

Magentasue

HariboJunkie wrote: »

4.30pm??? Really???? I've never known secondary schools to stay until that time.
Children do not do 2/3rds of a day now:rolleyes: but I suspect you realise that and are just winding us up now.

We finished at 4.15pm but didn't start until 9.15am. So, seven hours with two breaks (15 or 20 mins) and at least an hour for lunch. Call it 5.5 hours. I now teach from 8.45pm to 3.45pm with one twenty minute break in the morning and an hour for lunch. In my last school we started and finished earlier but in both it was five hours of lessons plus form time. No difference really.

SusanC_2

HariboJunkie wrote: »

4.30pm??? Really???? I've never known secondary schools to stay until that time.

I used to work (in 2004/5) in a Secondary school which started at 8.30 and finished at 4.

helyg

We used to finish school at 3.50pm, but we started at 9am and had an hour for lunch and breaks of around 15 mins mid morning and mid afternoon. I lived about 17 miles from school, so with stops and along windy country lanes it used to take about 50 mins on the bus plus a 10 minute walk between home and the bus stop to get to or from school. So I would leave the house before 8am and get home at around 5pm.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

MrsE wrote: »

Not being arkward here, but in the winter its darkish when I leave (7.45am) & dark when I get home (5.30) & its like that for a couple of months.

That reminds me of the job I had in 1999 - I left for work at 7am and didn't get home until 7pm. The office I worked in had no external windows. For most of the year I only saw daylight at weekends!