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Fudge_Cake_2

French_Knickers wrote: »

No point though unless you intend taking your over priced cereal back to tesco! :rotfl:

May as well just buyit from asda....assuming you have one close of course.

:money:Not if you have a conditional spend for T's I have 4 x £4 off £20 spend vouchers that the lovely peeps at my local T's sent me last week

But incidently I do have a brand new A's about 3 mins from my front door!

Beki88

caz2703 wrote: »

2/3 of the ironing done. At least the boys will look clean & tidy even if I don't!

Butter. Mine was done with a bog standard Russell Hobbs hand blender. I think FK you're saying you only have blades for cutting and not whisks for errrr whisking! You need to whisk until the cream goes from runny to thick & white to looking very like scrambled eggs (I think this is when you put in salt but only if you're not freezing). Turn speed down on whisk, keep going until the scrambled egg starts to separate and you end up with butter that clumps onto the whisk and a liquid that is butter milk. I whisked, poured out butter milk into a bowl using a sieve to catch any bits of butter then whisked again, drained off butter milk etc etc until it was just a big lump of butter. Having kids means I have muslin squares so I dumped the water in the muslin, ran it under the tap whilst flattening the butter, folding in the water, squeezing it out and keep going until your hands are frozen and the liquid coming off the butter is clear. Once done I dried off the butter using some plain kitchen (didn't want to risk the printed patterned stuff), set it down onto greaseproof paper, rolled it into a log then cut it like garlic bread and rolled it up in the paper to put in the freezer where it should keep for 3 months. I made some a few days ago and defrosted it today and already it tasted saltier than the fresh stuff I tried last week.

Thanks Caz just what I needed Will have a go tomorrow if I can get everything done.

French_Knickers wrote: »

It worked! Buzzin now and not remotely tired....which is not a good thing at 3.09!!:eek:

Oh well if I can't sleep theres always another 4 pots of cream in the fridge!

Well done FN
How much cream did you use to get that much?

I'm excited now I can never make anything normally so if I can do this it will be awesome to rub in my homely friends noses I mean to erm erm ah s0d it

Anyway best be off to sleep up in 3 hours :eek:

Night all take care x

Fudge_Cake_2

SpiralingDown wrote: »

Have sat down and explained to DS what the doc said, told him that even if I do have to go in we could get the nurses to allow us to have a party there for just the 2 of us, shut the door and watch movies all day.
He was very upset at first but we've been talking about what we'll do whatever happens, he wants to just spend Saturday with just me, we've got a school open day to go to, then he wants to go to a nice restaurant for lunch, then the cinema and then back to my parents.
I think it's getting to the stage were he's fed up being with them, we've never spent so much time with them as we've done in the last 3 months, he's so looking forward to us getting a council house but they've offered us 1 place so far and they have to do a lot of work before they can even let us see it. I'm so hoping it'll be suitable but don't think it will be with DS's health problems

MEGA MEGA MEGA hugs sent to you and DS SpiralingDown, you are one AMAZING Mum :A I will be thinking of you and keeping absolutely everything crossed that it's good news from your GP xxx

jumblejack wrote: »

Well I tried making short crust pastry with the beef suet:



Pie n peas anyone?

(Edit:
Thanks Minnie the minx and others for the idea)

OH MY!!!!!!!!!!! That looks absolutely amazing, WELL DONE JJ! :T

I'm seriously flagging, time to get some shut eye very soon!

French_Knickers

Beki88 wrote: »

Thanks Caz just what I needed Will have a go tomorrow if I can get everything done.


Well done FN
How much cream did you use to get that much?

I'm excited now I can never make anything normally so if I can do this it will be awesome to rub in my homely friends noses I mean to erm erm ah s0d it

Anyway best be off to sleep up in 3 hours :eek:

Night all take care x

2 small pots of double cream.

I did it all by hand and it wasn't that hard to be honest....gave my arms a workout but I just had a shake then a rest then shook a bit more.

It wasn't toooo cold which helped as it'd been in the car a while on the way home but they say if it gets to room temperature then it only takes 10 mins or so shaking, but if its chilled then i takes ages.

The nice thing about doing it in the tub was once it actually turned, it was fairly easy to get most of the milk out by just shaking and then draining. I had pretty much a block of butter in the tub before I had to wash it.

Fudge_Cake_2

Right that's me off to sleepy byes! I managed up to 9:25pm...lightweight :rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:

French_Knickers

Looks like I'm on light switch duty tonight.

Zzzzzzzzzz, night all

**click**

3Dogs

kadison wrote: »

OI!!!!

*Bashes into large solid oak coffee table in 11+ common room and howls in pain*

Common room? Common room? We don't do common on the Elite 11+ thread :eek: 'The lounge' I think you meant

dharm11 wrote: »

So tempted to get the eggs but I have loads of chocolate in my room already and I can hear the mice in the attic trying to dig their way through the ceiling!

Talking of mice I thought I'd better check the dark chocolate and the last TCO I had in the bottom drawer ............... and found a mouse nest and lots of chewed chocolate :eek: :eek: Gotta clear out that chest of drawers tomorrow :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: and put the mouse traps down again

French_Knickers wrote: »

Looks like I'm on light switch duty tonight.

Zzzzzzzzzz, night all

**click**

Nooooooo I'm still here

I stayed up coz I knew Mr 3Dogs would be getting up around 1 or 2 am wanting/needing something to eat, so I'd stayed up anyway. True to form for him at the moment with his pain and meds he got up around 1.30 and had something to eat but we've stayed up since then drinking :eek: :eek: and I do mean whisky

3Dogs

Definitely safe to turn to lights off now though so night night folks

"click" .......................................................................

Miss_Laid

"Click" ......Lights are back on c'mon wakey wakey I've done 2 lots of washing hoovered and dusted through washed kitchen floor and am now at work Morninggggggggggg

Westvleteren

Lights out for approximately 9 mins :eek:

Good morning. Well done to those that got cheap chocolate, I will not be rushing out the door for this one, surely there will be a healthy glitch soon!




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