Justified spending?

Gemmzie

I think that's very justified spending

I get pregnancy cravings without the baby

LookingAhead

whatatwit wrote:

mmmmmm gingercake....post the recipe please, or at least a link. *grovelling smiley*

I have made a fruity weetabix loaf thingy, but i may take that to my grandparents tomorrow.

I found this online a while ago. Haven't made it myself yet but you might find it interesting?

http://www.uncaged.co.uk/ginger.htm

chevalier

I know this is funny, but on a slightly more serious note, have you been checked for gestational diabetes? It might explain the sweet craving. Sorry to be a party pooper. I had no cravings with my two!

shazanne_2

All I wanted when I was pregnant was ice cream from a shop that is miles from me and makes their own ice cream.............mmmm want one now and not even preggers!!!!!!!!!!!

OneSpike

Are you really sure you want the recipe??? It might be 'bye bye toes' for longer than nine months!

From The Cookery Year (very old fashioned but wonderful book)

1 lb plain flour
3 level teaspoons ground ginger
ditto baking powder
1 level teaspoon bicarb
ditto salt
8 oz demarara sugar
6oz butter
ditto treacle
ditto syrup
1/2 pint milk
1 large egg

Grease + line 9" cake tin (personally I use magic liner). Sift dry ingredients except sugar (I stick them straight in the food mixer). Warm sugar, syrup, butter and treacle in a pan til the butter has just melted. Stir into the flour together with milk and beaten egg. At this point I blitz hell out of it for two or three minutes, which I think is the secret Pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for - well, if you have my luverly fan oven it's about 1 1/4 hours at 160, but according to their instrucs it's 1 1/2 hours gas mark 4/350 degs old money. I stick a skewer in after 1 1/4 hours and if it's not gungy then out the cake comes, and once cool is beautifully squidgy in the middle without being raw! I put foil over the top for the last half an hour but you don't need to do that. It rises and cracks a bit on the top and just looks delicious. Whenever I serve this all I hear is groans of ecstasy!

OneSpike

But despite having the dark secret of heavenly gingercake at my fingertips, I troughed green pimento olives when I was pg and now my daughter loves them too!

Snaggles

Totally justified spending! All I've craved so far is chillies :eek: so I'm dying to crave something nice like chocolate (makes me projectile vomit at the moment sob!) or biscuits.

pudding06

With my first son it was lime pickle - I ate it out of the jar with a spoon. cant even look at it now.

with my fourth son it was liver - raw liver - I used to buy it and then dash home - because the craving was so strong I'd open the packet and eat it raw walking down the street!!!!!. My OH used to grab it off me when I got home and fling it in a pan or under the grill just to sear it so it didnt look so gross when I ate it.

guessed I must have needed it!!!!

biccies sound quite nice in comparison

pudds

immoral_angeluk

pudding06 wrote:

With my first son it was lime pickle - I ate it out of the jar with a spoon. cant even look at it now.

with my fourth son it was liver - raw liver - I used to buy it and then dash home - because the craving was so strong I'd open the packet and eat it raw walking down the street!!!!!. My OH used to grab it off me when I got home and fling it in a pan or under the grill just to sear it so it didnt look so gross when I ate it.

guessed I must have needed it!!!!

biccies sound quite nice in comparison

pudds

My DH's mum apparently used to sit in a coal shed for hours on end just sniffing the coal dust..
In my first pregnancy I was seriously into my sweet things even more than now. I'd be eating cakes, chocolate, jam and all sorts 24/7! Luckily I'm a bit more controlled this time around but it's been the same both times and they've both been girls!

Snaggles

Lime pickle and liver......eerrrrkkk! Pregnancy is so weird!