Preparing for winter IV

pollys

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Progress is continuing on the quilt I'm making for our bed, but its a little slow going as its a crazy-complicated one and I only get 10 mins here and there to work on it. http://www.ohfransson.bigcartel.com/product/aviatrix-medallion-pdf-quilt-![/QUOTE]


The quilt is beautiful, please let us see the finished product when you have completed it. I wouldn't know where to start.

Polly

aggypanthus

Link to the wonderbag thing please?

2 yrs ago I made lined curtains for living room, only single width floor length, so the cant close fully. There's a venetian blind, and a radiator below window.

Dilemma is, make another pr to hang beside them, but will need to tuck behind rad, this will crush the linen fabric?
or make a radiator length pr to whzz cacross the window, hanging next to the long ones, will that look weird?
Fabric will be the same as I got 18m.
or just use the blind as last years. ?

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Hi AGGYPANTHUS the wonderbag thread is 'Thermal Cookers: have you used one?' started on 28.3.2014 by MSE Andrea and is currently on pade 21 of the MSE thread listings. There are lots of 'How To' videos on You Tube for how to make them and also Wonder Boxes too (square not round), Hope that helps, Lyn xxx.

Eenymeeny

I'm looking for single flat flannelette sheets, can anyone recommend some please? Also mattress protectors with proper cotton sides, not that horrible paper- type stuff that tears.
The trouble is that you don't know what they are like until you open the packaging...
Thanks for any help

twiglet98

bossymoo wrote: »

Plus, my stepdad phoned from the North-East and said he's picked a carrier full of elderberries for me. I must have complained I hadn't seen any this year. Imagine they will show up through the week so I'll make us all some of this magic cough syrup - I've just found some little bottles it can live in.

I have made a successful small bottle of elderberry syrup, which my daughter has taken back to her house, and a larger bottle full which isn't right. I posted a query a few days ago... it seems to be fermenting, it has a layer of bubbles on top which appear again after I skim them off, and I don't know if it can be salvaged. I thought the recipe is usually quite flexible but clearly something's gone wrong! The berries were from my garden and from down in the village, the village ones were much riper and I wonder if that was the problem.

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TWIGLET did you sterilize the bottle before you bottled the syrup? Did you bottle the syrup while it and the bottles were hot? if not you may have got a natural yeast fermentation going on. He Who Knows says you should be able to treat it by adding 'YOUNGS BREW STERILISING POWDER' which you can get from a homebrew shop and it should stop the fermentation or if you have CAMDEN TABLETS one of those might work. He says you might save it by boiling it again and then rebottling it in a sterilized hot bottle. Good luck, I hate wasted effort and I hope you can salvage it, Lyn xxx.

apple_muncher

Eenymeeny wrote: »

I'm looking for single flat flannelette sheets, can anyone recommend some please? Also mattress protectors with proper cotton sides, not that horrible paper- type stuff that tears.
The trouble is that you don't know what they are like until you open the packaging...
Thanks for any help

Would it be worth asking on freecycle/freegle?

good_advice

Oh has been gardening for 2 days on and off. We brought in the geraniums and our money plant. Now in conservatory.

A new bag of daffidols has been planted around the back garden.

greenbee

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I had a breakthrough moment yesterday, I wanted to cook some chick peas I'd soaked up but had to go out so couldn't leave them simmering on the hob and then I remembered that Greenbee cooks them in her wonderbag, which is an new fashioned version of the old fashioned hay boxes. I boiled them for 10 minutes on the hob and then tucked them away in my homemade wonderbag cooker and left them overnight. Wow, this morning I've a big batch of perfectly cooked chick peas so I've made a big bowl of hummus and have a batch of falafels in the oven. The house smells woinderful. I think this will save me an awful lot of fuel this coming winter as any bean/pulse will cook in this amazing gadget after an overnight soak and a 10 minute boil. It will also mean that if we do get problems with the electricity supply for any reason I don't have to use up my gas cannisters cooking I can give it a start on the stove and finish it in the wonderbag. It cooks stews, soups, porridge, fruit, is a very good weapon in the kitchen arsenal. There is a thread started by Memory Girl who made the first one if you're interested in making one for yourselves, it's pretty easy and is jolly useful too.Lyn xxx.

It's amazing isn't it? I always used to get bored cooking pulses and get them wrong. Or cook them in the SC which could be variable. But the thermal bag is PERFECT! The only problem is stopping myself snacking on chickpeas constantly...

With the number of power cuts we get here, my thermal bag is going to be very well used.

For anyone who wants to make one but needs a pattern, here's a link to MG's blog

There's also someone who makes them if you're not up to making one yourself.

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Hi GREENBEE I'm mightily impressed with it as a means of cooking pulses, I find even if I simmer them gently on the hob they always get softer than I like and I end up with mush and lots of empty skins in the pan. This was perfectly cooked chick peas for 10 minutes fuel and no attention needed from me. Can't get better than that can you pet? Lyn xxx.