Preparedness for when

grandma247

Lots of custard cream recipes online. One here. buy in custard powder now as it keeps ages.

Custard powder makes a lighter chocolate cake if you replace 1-2 oz of flour with it. I do this because I have mostly been using wholemeal so it can be a bit heavy. Family going completely wheat free when I have used up what flour is left.

westcoastscot

Thanks for that Grandma, shall try that minus the egg - we haven't been able to have them for some time. I made a fairly decent bourbon recently, adapted from an old bero recipe.

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Norty pineapple is biting her lip........

I'm too innocent for this thread.:p

Have added three more candles to the stash, a teeny tiny compass and a firesteel. I plan to play with the firesteel on the lottie tomorrow. |I already know the lottie's orientation (NNE-SSW and probably bi).

I was :mad: when I heard that they want more money for the military and they want it at the expense of the welfare budget if they can't get it any other way.

Yeah. Right. And be ready to deploy the troops on the streets of this country when the SHTF.

Today has been very pleasing, inc bumping into an ex-colleague when out and about, and getting some nice books and a Red Herring v neck black tee (50p!) What can you get for 50p in this vale of tears?

Umm, a bar of Liddly chocolate, a paperback and a pillar candle, based on today's shopping trip.

GQ - born to (charity) shop.

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GQ take a cotton wool ball or some cotton wool with you, if all else fails, that is the certain sure way of lighting a fire with a firesteel and your firing materials might be a bit damp after all the cold, so they might just need a little help, Cheers Lyn xxx.

pennib

westcoastscot wrote: »

Oh will have a read back then - keep thinking about starting a blog as i get lovely feedback photos through etsy but feel it wouldnt be so interesting now we're not on the island crofting and home-schooling.
Sorry arms too short to reach that far so i've eaten your slice for you :rotfl:

You should do one. I bet you had a really interesting time crofting and home schooling. I bet the kids had a good fun time there, all that freedom to run about etc. It would be good to jot down your memories, even if it's not a blog. (I would read it!):)

That means I have to get my 30p 'cooking' chocolate that acts as a back up when there is no cake about:D

bluebag

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GQ take a cotton wool ball or some cotton wool with you, if all else fails, that is the certain sure way of lighting a fire with a firesteel and your firing materials might be a bit damp after all the cold, so they might just need a little help, Cheers Lyn xxx.

A little petroleum jelly spread on the cotton wool ball makes an excellent fire starter. Dryer lint is better than cotton wool if you have access to it.

ginnyknit

Mumma thank you for the laugh, I love it. It reminds of when they asked why OH was in a wheelchair, cos there are only 2 disabled parking spaces at Atos and I had to walk half a mile from the car park pushing the damned thing 'because he cant walk' :mad:

Grandma, thank you once again for another handy recipe, bless you. I will begin production of custard creams on the moro Ya boo sucks Mr T I wont need you at all soon :j

pennib

mmm those biccy recipes sound nice. Will have to get some custard in. Our Tesco had a few empty shelves this week, mostly basic things. Wonder if they will re-stock or not. And, what happened to jelly, can you get it in blocks anymore or just ready made?

We have a long growing time in Scotland in the summer as it doesn't get dark till llpm and lightens up again at 2am. So everything catches up with the rest of UK as we have to plant later. (DH grits his teeth when I want to get things planted in Feb as he knows they wont survive....but the sun is out, they will be fine!!)

And convinced DH we needed some chickens, so hopefully they will be here next week. Got some straw and oats from local farmer dead cheap. So already for those fresh eggs. I was given some eggs of the cheaper variety and if I had turned the light off I'm sure the I could have seen by the egg white it was so luminous.

BigMummaF

Last time..for today anyways..

Been meaning to say about your improvised candle moulds GQ; had you 'greased' them with something--I don't know..cooking oil or summat--or tried standing them in hot water, to help release them once solid? Not sure why I thought of it but it's been bugging me since your experiment


I'd made a note to ask in my To Do notebook, but I can't find that since I tidied up :undecided
I am, most definitely, a Lost Cause in the World of Housekeep.

pineapple

Today I decided to shift the sandbags from the rear of the house (I put them down last year when we got those 'monsoon rains').
I got them from a local builder's merchant - except they don't do them ready made. But they sell the casings and they sell the sand and will even fill them for you. So all you have to do then is decide on what sort of casing and what sort of sand :huh:
Before then I used to think a sandbag was just a sandbag. Silly moi....
I chose the traditional hessian type woven casing. How stupid was that! Because they leak sand. And then if left in situ for any length of time, they rot. And then they leak some more sand. Then when you try to shift them..... Well you get the picture.

Just to be aware should sandbags be part of your preparedness.