Hilarious Cake mix from M&S

Cullumpster

I have to say I buy the packet batter from tesco for 8p I have tried and tried on umpteen occasions to make yorkshires but they always come out rubbish like frisby! I even had my mum round and she made it with me and she is a yorkshire champ, hers came out fab, mine ......yeah you guessed it PANTS! She even said I'm not doing anything wrong! So my yorkies come out perfect every time now and it's not from the want of trying. By the way the reason I'm on here funnily enough is to get the recepie for white / cheese sauce for lasagne, want to make some from scratch and never have any help please?

mrcow

Cullumpster wrote: »

By the way the reason I'm on here funnily enough is to get the recepie for white / cheese sauce for lasagne, want to make some from scratch and never have any help please?

Well for starters you're going to have to get some flour - maybe use the stuff left over from the yorkshires!

Flour and butter (two spoons of each) melt butter and then mix together into a thick paste in a saucepan. If doing cheese sauce I stick mustard in too as it means you don't have to use so much cheese.

Slowly add milk and mix right in - this is where it can get lumpy if you do it too quickly.

Grate some cheese and add it in.

It's really simple.

thisuseridistakenagain

i never understood that, asda's mixes all ask for eggs, butter and milk. I used to buy them for quickness from a local scoop shop and just add water. (it cost something like 20p a kilo so was money saving too and didn't taste that bad)

I do use the chocolate cake ones though as I cant bring myself to spend £1;50 on a tub of cocoa just yet. im just starting on baking and perfer the icing part rather than the actual baking!!

hilstep2000

It's not difficult to make a white sauce. The trick is, melt the butter/marg, add the flour, COOK the flour for a few minutes, stirring all the time to keep it smooth, then add the milk SLOWLY, a bit at a time, whilst stirring or whisking. Then add cheese, parsley, or keep it white.
People get frightened of making sauce. My domestic science teacher taught me when I was 12 and I've taught my daughter who is 23. She would never dream of buying a packet sauce!

Cullumpster

Thanks guys I shall try my best and let you know

brokeinwales

Seriously - why would anyone go out and by that?

Some people are under the impression that it's cheaper to buy stuff ready made. The other day I caught my flatmate heating up a plastic tub of cheese sauce in the microwave. I asked him why he didn't just make his own as it only takes very slightly longer and his response was that the tub of sauce (which lasted him one meal) only cost £1.50, which was cheaper than buying a block of cheese.

Magpye

I had to laugh reading this, it reminded me of a friend who invited me round for dinner and proudly proclaimed, 'It's my special homemade pasta carbonara'. When we went round, she invited us into the kitchen and proceeded to put a couple of those packets of pasta into the microwave while she made 'carbonara sauce' on the hob - a jar of 'Dolmio' white sauce with a cut up gammon steak in it... bless her, at least she tried. It was disgusting, incidentally, but I ate it!

Reverbe

I think these ready to mix kits can be good as in intro for little ones to the kitchen. I am all for children learning to cook and prepare as soon as they are old enough.I know when I was a kid I used to make orange tops and lemon tops etc from them and enjoyed it. My mum was a lousy cook and would never have known how to make cakes and icing etc from scratch.

I see from the Hairy Bikers thread a lot of cooking and baking seems to have skipped a generation like in my family. I enjoy cooking tho I dont tend to much as there is only just me but I am entirely selftaught and instinctive.

zippychick

Callumpster - White sauce, delias all in one

Or thread about white sauce or bechamel sauce

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I never mock anyone who uses these packets as I think at least they are trying.I wouldn't myself as being brought up by a very frugal Scots Mum and being very broke whan first married meant I had to learn to cook or we would have gone very hungry.plus of course there were few 'mixs' to buy back in 1962.I can remember buying a 'vesta curry'once when they first came on the market and cooking it.I must say I wasn't impressed but it was then a bit difficult to buy the ingediants and spices bacck then.I can remember when Spag bol was considered to be 'foreign food' and viewed with great doubt by the housewives of the day. My late husband enjoyed curries and chinese food but wasn't very keen on pasta meals for some reason.If even packets get folk cooking it can only be good as 'great oaks from little acorns grow'