How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

charlies-aunt

:T Rooting round in the cupboard - discovered another treasure - a tin of condensed milk . . . . with a recipe for millionaires shortcake on the side :j Yeah!

But the use by date was September 2009 - 18 months ago

......and the top had a few rust marks on it . . .


Decided to live dangerously - it looked ok , smelled ok . . . and tastes divine :rotfl:

kitschy

Great news, redlady! :j

Got myself a packet of Dylon (can't remember who it was who was looking out for them in CS now), to revive a tired looking dressing gown. My cat is a wool-sucker, with a penchant for dressing gowns, so I thought it more thrifty to perk the colour up rather than find a new one. Will probably have to wait until next week to try it.

Sewed up the pocket on OHs dressing gown, and made two cards. I've been giving the card-making a rest as I think the mass of them I did for Christmas orders was what kicked off my carpal tunnel, but have decided to give it a whirl again, so that when the Spring Fayres start I won't panic and hurt myself again Just got to list them on Folksy/Etsy, and I hate doing that bit!

My Mum fed my cats the other night as I was away, and when I came back she told me how much like my Nana I am, with all my food squirreled away and my crafts on the go

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Red lady 1 congrats on the test results :j. You must be feeling releived.

Well I made a big mistake today. I was not on a late shift, I should have been on an early shift so I only actually worked three extra hours.

Anyway OH has cleaned most of downstairs for me and I have got the shopping done. Went way over budget but did stock up on sugar and bought summer flowering bulbs for the garden which will come up year on year so they are MSE I suppose as I will need less summer bedding.

jumblejack

charlies-aunt wrote: »

:T Rooting round in the cupboard - discovered another treasure - a tin of condensed milk . . . . with a recipe for millionaires shortcake on the side :j Yeah!

But the use by date was September 2009 - 18 months ago

......and the top had a few rust marks on it . . .


Decided to live dangerously - it looked ok , smelled ok . . . and tastes divine :rotfl:

Mmmmm. I've just found an ace recipe in an old thread by black Saturn using EM: strawberry mousse.....

Warm half a pint of milk in a pan, dissolve a jelly into it. It will look as if it is curdled but then you add a half pint of evaporated milk. Mix and pop into the fridge to set!

How easy is that?!

I've gotta try it. It'd be great for a kids tea party!!

meanmarie

Shegar...we call them white turnips.....

mardatha

Neeps ! anything that isnt a turnip is a neep !

ChocClare

jumblejack wrote: »

Mmmmm. I've just found an ace recipe in an old thread by black Saturn using EM: strawberry mousse.....

Warm half a pint of milk in a pan, dissolve a jelly into it. It will look as if it is curdled but then you add a half pint of evaporated milk. Mix and pop into the fridge to set!

How easy is that?!

I've gotta try it. It'd be great for a kids tea party!!

If you've got a Kenwood Chef or ANO mixer with a stand, then you can zhuzh this up by doing the following:

Put your tin of evaporated milk in the fridge overnight.

Empty into Kenwood Chef with balloon whisk fitted. Turn on whisk and go and do something else. After about five-ten minutes or so you'll have this amazing fluffy moussy stuff, about double the volume of the original milk. It's still evaporated milk, so don't get excited.

Meanwhile, make up a jelly using half the water stated. Pour into the mousse with the motor running. Put resultant strawberry/orange/lemon/blackcurrant/whatever flavour mousse into a BIG mould or bowl and put in fridge to set. This makes a very light and fluffy mousse. TBH strawberry is a bit sweet - orange is quite nice, particularly if you bung a few tinned mandarins in (or make the jelly up with the juice from the tin).

This was one of our standard 70s puddings. Fresh and healthy it ain't. :rotfl:

maryb

I have posted this on the Really Old Style Living Thread but as I see many of the regulars from that thread on here as well I thought I would reiterate here the warning I posted over there

WARNING!!!!

I was browsing Google for grain mills and one of the links I clicked on started downloading one of those fake alert trojans - you know, the one that keeps making a fake virus alert pop up saying you have 50 gazillion infections and do you want to upgrade your protection now. IT'S A SCAM and will not only pocket your money but will then make loads of fraudulent transactions using your credit card details

My DD2 has had this sort of thing several times because they hide in links to web pages about teen idols etc (One Direction etc). I never thought I'd get it from surfing self sufficiency websites!!!

Anyway, if you do get this I know from bitter experience how to get rid of it. It's not easy because the wrteched thing stops you accessing the internet.

If you see it starting to load hit the off button on yoir computer straightaway - don't worry about shutting down properly. One thing I have found is that it doesn't seem to affect your documents or other files. This may stop it in its tracks. However it may not so to be on the safe side go on to the next stage as follows:

When you restart your computer hit F5 repeatedly until you can start in Safe Mode (it may be a different key for you - find out now!!)

Then do a System Restore to the previous day (or whenever the most recent System Restore point is). Your computer will then allow you to access the internet when it retstarts. Download the free version of Malwarebytes and update it straightaway and do a full scan. It will probably find something lurking such as Fake Security Alert. Delete anything you find

This works for me.

But why did the hackers ever think it was worth their while hiding this thing in a google link about grain mills????

kezlou

:rotfl::rotfl:your waiting for fat knacker to knock over i'm waiting for scabby cat to either eat / sit on them hahahaha

Oh and swedes are turnips or white turnips or as my gran used to say the bad un's !

Well i went to lidl for some plants and OH basically said don't bother you end up killing them. Instead he said we'll go to that garden centre outside of great broughton with a picnic and get some alive ones. I know sounds silly, but its the idea of sitting with a flask of coffee and a sarnie looking at the moors is my idea of heaven. How sad am i:o. I'm 28 going on 100!
Never know we might even go tomorrow and drag the kids out with us!

Been nice though went and visited some very close friends, well to us they more like family . So just sat there happily chatting, drinking tea, eating cake watching tv, with the boys playing. So relaxing there.

Didn't manage to sow any seeds as got in when it was dark. Instead we may do it tomorrow.

MaLarkin

just got in from work and there is definitely a bit of stockpiling going on. Not a bit of own brand self-raising flour left on the shelves and very little of any other sort. Lots of people starting to feel uneasy.