Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Saw a different jelly recipe on Hairy Bikers earlier. It was cider jelly, with blackberries.

It was presented as a bit of a dinner party/posh thing, served in big wine goblets. Cider Jelly With Blackberries.

It was: water/sugar heated/boiled, remove from heat, gently slide the cider in down the side of the pan (so you don't lose the bubbles) put blackberries in for 15 minutes (taste goes into the water/sugar a bit but the blackberries don't cook. Remove blackberries, add softened gelatin and stir. Chill the glasses (he'd had them in the freezer for an hour). Half fill glasses, put them in the freezer for an hour. Remove glasses from freezer and slowly/carefully fold the jelly around with a fork so it looks crystallised. Pop blackberries onto top. Top up glasses with the remainder of the water/sugar/cider mix. Bung in fridge. Make them the day before.

You can probably find a video of it online... the bbc website doesn't have a photo of it... looked nice though.

Funnily enough found that with google earlier today....it would be great as one of the people coming adores cider...but there are also little kids. Now, i am not so fussed about that. They probably put brandy on my milk week one, and i remember drinking wine and port as a toddler ( i can remembe i was allowed 'dregs' which horrifies me now, not so much for the alcohol as for the germs!) but i would not want to give soneone elses toddler alcoholic jelly.

Interesting really, at what point do 'normal' parents allow, say, a chocolate liquor, a tiramisu or a sherry trifle? I have no idea tbh:o

mystic_trev

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Icelandic_MP_Moves_Elves’_Boulder_to_His_Home_0_390052.news.aspx

Elf and safety gone mad! :rotfl:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

Interesting really, at what point do 'normal' parents allow, say, a chocolate liquor, a tiramisu or a sherry trifle? I have no idea tbh:o

We were fed weak advocaat and lemonade at new year, or wine and lemonade at Xmas, from the age of about 5 or 6, and occasional chocolate liqueurs from about the same age.

By 10 or 12 it was Shandy or Perry at special occasions.

Sherry trifle at Xmas every year from as early an age as I can remember, and Crannachan on occasion too.

Probably only because the parents were quite happy for the kids to get tired and go to sleep early.

lostinrates

mystic_trev wrote: »

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Icelandic_MP_Moves_Elves’_Boulder_to_His_Home_0_390052.news.aspx

Elf and safety gone mad! :rotfl:

Ok, so i find the specific details a little off the wall, but Society allows christians to preserve relics both dubious and more likely, and other main stream religions to do things they think is off the wall, so if the guy believes in elves , so what? I would rather my mp believed in fairies than many other things.

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

We were fed weak advocaat and lemonade at new year, or wine and lemonade at Xmas, from the age of about 5 or 6, and occasional chocolate liqueurs from about the same age.

By 10 or 12 it was Shandy or Perry at special occasions.

Sherry trifle at Xmas every year from as early an age as I can remember, and Crannachan on occasion too.

Probably only because the parents were quite happy for the kids to get tired and go to sleep early.

Wine an lemonade is a weird one. I often had wine and water, but i always think wine and lemonade is a bit of a preteen alcopop...encouraging the idea of alcohol without the appreciation iyswim. Snowballs make me gag!

Glad i was not the only young drinker, but it seems you were at least schoolage:D

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Interesting really, at what point do 'normal' parents allow, say, a chocolate liquor, a tiramisu or a sherry trifle? I have no idea tbh:o

Tiramisu or sherry trifle from about 5 or 6, chocolate liquor from about 10.

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Icelandic_MP_Moves_Elves’_Boulder_to_His_Home_0_390052.news.aspx

Elf and safety gone mad! :rotfl:

There was some bloke called David Ike that's equally whacko in the UK.. although I don't what that's all about or who he is really... just remember the name.

vivatifosi

On the drinking front, my earliest memory of alcohol was that very weak shandy you could buy as a soft drink alongside the cream soda and dandelion and burdock. Then snowballs as a Christmas treat (again, a lot of lemonade to water down). Christmas pudding always had brandy in it, though I was more fascinated by the sixpence as my currency knowledge is post-decimal. My first proper sophisticated experience of alcohol was on a French exchange when I was 14. I was in Avignon and it was Chateuneuf du Pape. It would have been rude not to.

zagubov

Dishwasher’s packed in. What’s the point in living in the 21st century, which they promised us would be full of flying cars and holidays on the moon, when we have to wash our own cups and plates like the stone age.
Still the new one’s arriving on Friday but that’s two days too late for my liking.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Dishwasher’s packed in. What’s the point in living in the 21st century, which they promised us would be full of flying cars and holidays on the moon, when we have to wash our own cups and plates like the stone age.
Still the new one’s arriving on Friday but that’s two days too late for my liking.

I'm onto paper plates... srsly. There's a stack of them in the cupboard and they'll only be thrown out if I don't use them in the next 2-3 weeks... so today I've eaten twice and used paper plates twice.... the 3rd time I ate it was a handful of dried mixed fruit ... not even a paper plate required.



This whole week's washing up will end up being just a collection of cutlery and 2 proper plates.... even my coffee mug I just rinse out each time as I don't have milk/sugar it doesn't get manky.