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

ceridwen

ChocClare wrote: »

SO pleased for you kidkat :T:T:T


Esther, have you got any foil? You could line your cake tin with that - you can always peel the foil off afterwards (ask me how I know).

As you lot know everything, could you please tell me what I've done with my recipe book? The one I write my recipes in? I promised tigerfeet a non-alcoholic sticky chicken recipe which is as nice if not nicer than my Chinese chicken and my blue index book containing nearly 30 years' worth of recipes has vanished. Any ideas???:D:D

Thats a BIG loss...30 years worth of recipes - eek!

Depends on where you keep this notebook - if it was me - then I might well keep summat like that in a drawer in the kitchen units - and it coulda fallen down in behind (this has been known chez ceridwen....). So - maybes try for if its fallen down behind summat?

These days - blogs they are a wondrous thing - and any recipes I see anywhere that I want to copy out - then I have a private blog specially for this and I send them over there (with the "share" function on the Google banner at the top of the "page") and that way they are all available for me to write down when I have the time.

I've got a load of recipes (many from MSE) duly now copied out on A4 lined paper and put in A4 hardback folders (sitting there to the left of me on a shelf as I type:D) and they are divided up between several folders depending on whether they are specifically fruit/veg ones (in alphabetical order of which fruit/veg it is) or cheapie ones (sub-divided into specific "authors" or general) and so on...:D. I actually find this more useful than my cookbooks these days..

EDIT: Must admit to a slight personal preference for it only being ME that likes my cooking sometimes (like I've just gone to check on a casserole in the oven - and found a snail on the cooker handle - agh!!! - it must have come in as a visitor from the garden...ugh! - reminds self "The French EAT snails! - so dinnae worry - now I've stepped on it pronto..." Yuk!)

FURTHER EDIT: Just read on a bit - and found it WAS "down the back of" the freezer...apologies....as you were all...

kidcat

Hoping to move end of April De1amo, but no dates yet. ready to start packing now though,

I think its time you found a way to learn the lingo De1amo - or get an independant interpreter instead of relying on your wife. May help things at home if you arent relying on her to translate for you.

Have fed 8 teenagers HM pizza tonight - they are all so complimentary its lovely - I was worried they might not be happy that we hadnt got expensive ones etc but they were all made up when I let them list their toppings and I made them to order

silvasava

EstherH wrote: »

Can anyone help? I need to line a cake tin and haven't got any greaseproof paper or baking parchment. Can I use the inside liner from a cereal packet or will it melt or burn? Have posted on a separate thread but thought I'd try on here as you know everything between you.

Been lurking for a little while so hope no one minds me posting - I usually grease the inside of my cake tin & put a spoonful of flour inside & shake it around just so its lightly coated and then tip out the surplus. It really helps to stop anything sticking

kidcat

Ceridwen - I have a large A4 folder that I put my recipes in when I find them, its a real gem of a file and i enjoy a root around to find stuff we havent tried yet, I probably use it as much as any of my other proper cookbooks. Although I think my frugal cookbook may become a much used item in future months.

kidcat

silvasava wrote: »

Been lurking for a little while so hope no one minds me posting - I usually grease the inside of my cake tin & put a spoonful of flour inside & shake it around just so its lightly coated and then tip out the surplus. It really helps to stop anything sticking

If its a sweet recipe I use icing sugar after the butter and it works too, i use it especially on sweet souffles etc.

ceridwen

kidcat wrote: »

Ceridwen - I have a large A4 folder that I put my recipes in when I find them, its a real gem of a file and i enjoy a root around to find stuff we havent tried yet, I probably use it as much as any of my other proper cookbooks. Although I think my frugal cookbook may become a much used item in future months.

:rotfl:...actually...custom-made cookbooks are a much better idea methinks. The thing is about bought cookbooks is that there are ALWAYS recipes that I dont want to try out ever. I've certainly found that its very much a case of "pick your fave cookbook writer" to find a couple of authors that have the same taste in food as I do and the same expectations as to level of time/effort they are prepared to put into cooking things.

But - even with ones with a very similar mindset/tastes to myself - there are ALWAYS recipes that I'm simply not interested in trying. This way - I get summat custom-made to my specifications:D

mardatha

I've got a SC and a pressure cooker. But I've got an excuse
The pressure cooker works on the hob which is calor gas.
The SC is electric .
So if there's a power cut we can still cook, and if there was a sudden catastrophic worldwide shortage of calor gas we can still cook. :cool:

ginnyknit

While we are on the subject of cakes, I have a wedding cake to make and she wants a sponge, has anybody got any ideas of what the best sponge would be. Im also making the favours and table decorations - O/S wedding.

Got loads done today, garden is starting to wake up for spring.
made some nettle fertiliser and found my comfrey is coming up well. Am determined to make a go of it this year. Been watching the veg growing programmes on Sky to inspire me.

I would be upset if I lost my cookbook, its taken me years to compile it. OOh chocclare another recipe to add to my favourites, I get frozen chicken thighs from Mr T cos all the chefs reckon they are the tastiest bit - would love organic free range but you could buy a small car or a gallon of petrol for that price:eek:

lostinrates

kidcat wrote: »

If its a sweet recipe I use icing sugar after the butter and it works too, i use it especially on sweet souffles etc.

that's interesting. I would have assumed the sugar would melt caramalise and stick!


I love my cookbooks...both my own notes (subdivided into folders for sweet/ veg/ meat/holidays) I'd love to be skilled enough to make a system where I could store them on a disc or whatever findable by ingredient for gluts, holidays for appropriate but new ideas, and other points of reference...but I can't!..and my bought books. I particularly love community recipe books. I don't want to cook everything in them either but I like reading them. A lot of the time I have to live on a v. restricted diet but still love to cook...so cook for dh friends family a lot ore than I eat. when things are dire i ''read a meal'' and feel quite well satiated at the end of it.

ginnyknit, I would have thought a Genoise sponge

charlies-aunt

EstherH wrote: »

Pleased for you kid cat.


Can anyone help? I need to line a cake tin and haven't got any greaseproof paper or baking parchment. Can I use the inside liner from a cereal packet or will it melt or burn? Have posted on a separate thread but thought I'd try on here as you know everything between you.

I never use greaseproof paper for cake tin if you rub the inside over with a bit of margarine and then add a teaspoon of flour to the inside if the tin and shake it round so it coats the margarine, cakes never stick and slide out like magic

EDIT : Doh! Bump!