As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

jackieglasgow

Have you got a carbon monoxide detector you don't know about?

hex2

After some suggestions again please people.

I have been lucky enough to harvest about 6lbs of eating cherries form my share of next doors tree - I swapped for eggs.

Only me who likes them raw so I need to do something with them before they go off. I dont like 'lumpy' jam but I can't find a lump free recipe. And I don't want to stone them all, OH made me a cherry stoner (cork and welding wire) but my joints are bad atm so I would prefer not to if I can.

I do have a dehydrator - is it worth stoning and drying some? Thanks

Any suggestions?

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I haven`t read any posts today, something I will do at my leisure this evening. I saw a prog today called food fighters, on at 11 and very worth watching. I have downloaded yesterday`s and will set it to record every day this week at 11. Lots of interesting stuff

Stuffed marrow today was nice and will have the other half tomorrow sliced in a dish and re baked with parmesan on top. I got the recipe out of my farmhouse cookery book and went all nostalgic as I bought it in 1980, when it came out. Some of you will remember it
http://www.amazon.co.uk/FARMHOUSE-COOKERY-Recipes-Country-Kitchen/dp/B000S7AN70

To me that is a real os book, not scrimping but everything cooked from good wholesome fresh ingredients and not too many ingredients in a recipe, basil was still `foreign` then, so only a few foreign recipes in the book. I used it loads in the old days but somehow it took up residence in the back of a cupboard. It is now going to be thoroughly re-read and enjoyed, esp the lovely pictures

lakeland had a lock and lock spice store in its sale http://www.lakeland.co.uk/14681/Lock-and-Lock-Small-Spice-Store and I ordered 2 but clicked on the buy button twice by mistake, so actually ordered 4. I am so pleased I did as they are incredibly useful and I have spent much of today sorting and re packaging spices of all sorts. One now contains all baking spices and another all the bits for bread ie salt and seeds etc. That got me on a roll and I have re-packaged and sorted all my baking stuff like extracts etc and herbs. I made bags from cereal packaging that I have been keeping and I have been cutting and sealing, so the likes of juniper berries and so on are now in little bags instead of glass jars. I have free`ed up 13 small lock and locks and 3 big ones.( I started collecting lock and locks from when they first came out ) and also 1 1/2 shelves. The boxes are washed and dried and I will pack them together tonight

It has been a good day and I`m tired now and maybe I`ll tackle another cupboard tomorrow as I just put stuff wherever,, when we moved here

I forgot to say, I sowed some cabbage advantage seeds two days ago and they have germinated already. They are spring cabbages and are very winter hardy and won`t take up a lot of room. Worth sowing as they will be ready march/april next year. I am going to transplant 8 and that will last the 2 months

taurusgb

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Have you got a carbon monoxide detector you don't know about?

No Jackie - we never installed one (electric storage heaters) and we've lived here almost 20 years so don;t think last owner did either.

elona

I thought it might be a smoke detector or carbon monoxide alam with low batteries.

Have just got DH to give me a lift to nearest shop for Astonish hob cleaner- it works wonders on black marks on white kitchen double sink. No Astonish but got Cif lemon which did a not bad job. Next time I go to Boyses in York I am going to stock up on Astonish hob and oven cleaner, their orange cleaner and their tea and coffee stain remover for cups etc.

By the time I finished cleaning the hob and double sinks, worktops etc I could not face cooking from scratch tonight (Shhh);) so oven fish, chips and peas are on the menu tonight and anyone who does not like it "can go and bile their heid!"

I have finally got the chance to sit down with a cup of coffee and I am not moving for the next 15 minutes- so there.

grandma247

Afternoon everyone. Hugs to those that need them.
I have nearly caught up after a weekend away and a busy weeks sewing last week. result 3 new summer dresses completed and one cut out,also two longer under skirts half sewn.

Kittie I shred turnips and swedes to dehydrate them because my kids don't like them in lumps for stews etc. They are also good when rehydrated and made into little veggie pancakes with shredded carrot.
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I would recommend these to anyone, they are called ildi and when we last grew them they cropped right into December! I found them in a variety pack from wilkies this year.

elona

Could the peeping be hub for cordless phone or something like that>

Hex2

How about cherries in rum, or brandy or kirsh?

VJsmum

taurusgb wrote: »

Grrrrrrr....four times today a short alarm (about 10 peeps long if that makes any sense) has sounded "somewhere" in the house and we can't trace the source - is driving me mad. Mad I tell you!!! When I'm downstiars it sounds like the sound is upstairs and when I'm upstairs it sounds like it's downstairs. :mad::mad::mad:

I've spent most of the afternoon since getting home from work looking at the budget to try and re-jig it for hefty winter bills. Not with any great degree of success I might add. When I first went back to work after our youngest DS was able to get himself to school and back (6 years ago) my salary was meant to provide extra's and help boost our almost non-existant savings. Now it's all spoken for almost every month for essentials. And it's not getting any easier.

Picked another colander full of raspberries today - never had such a harvest before. Tomatoes are just flowering, same with courgettes and dwarf beans. I have some Peas and/or mange tout ready every day now.....please pray I don't get back from my 2 week camping holiday and find it all dead! Oldest DS is coming in to water every day but he's not a gardner and previous years of him doing this have had mixed results :cool:

Right - going to have another search for the mystery alarm

Could it be a mobile phone running low on battery? We had something similar in the middle of the night a few weeks ago, could NOT find it, then eventually discovered is was DS mobile - right by his bed and him still sound asleep, we were turning out cupboards :rotfl:

Rowan9

quick question....I am going to roast a chicken and want to put the gammon joint in to cook at same time. Can i do this? Have had a look in books and internet and seem to say soak/ boil first. It's unsmoked and I was just going to wrap it in tinfoil and bung it into the oven. Don't want any fancy flavouring, just to cook the blimmin thing and slice when cold. You can tell I'm not used to cooking ham/gammon. I've only done it once, years ago.
Thanks
W

ceridwen

hex2 wrote: »

After some suggestions again please people.

I have been lucky enough to harvest about 6lbs of eating cherries form my share of next doors tree - I swapped for eggs.

Only me who likes them raw so I need to do something with them before they go off. I dont like 'lumpy' jam but I can't find a lump free recipe. And I don't want to stone them all, OH made me a cherry stoner (cork and welding wire) but my joints are bad atm so I would prefer not to if I can.

I do have a dehydrator - is it worth stoning and drying some? Thanks

Any suggestions?

Cherry brandy.

I've just been drooling over a recipe for some on a blog - think 'twas called Frugal Living Uk - so if you google you should come up with it.

Thats some Christmas presents sorted - errrmm....mine for instance...:rotfl: - only joking:D. It DID sound nice - and that was the first time I was aware that there is even a Basics (or was it Value?) brandy available...