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Florenceem

silvasava wrote: »

OK - here's the recipe for Granny Cake - its really good & keeps well too.

Granny Spice Cake

Ingredients
12ozs Plain Flour (can use SR)
Pinch Salt
2 Level tsp Baking Powder
1 Level tsp Mixed Spice
5oz Margarine
6ozs Caster Sugar
10ozs Dried Fruit
1 Large Egg
Milk to Mix

Oven: Gas Mark 4 – 350deg

Method
Grease & flour a 7in cake tin. Sift flour, salt, baking powder & mixed spice into a bowl add margarine & rub in until mixture resembles bread crumbs. Mix in sugar & dried fruit. Beat egg lightly & add to ingredients with enough milk to make a fairly stiff dough. Turn into tin & make a well in the centre.
Bake in centre of oven for 1hr 45mins
Leave in Tin to cool.

Note: I add a sprinkling of any coarse grained sugar over the top before it goes in the oven for a nice crunchy topping

Thanks a lot. My Mum used to buy a Granny cake when I was growing up - I loved it.

kidcat

silvasava - is that make a well in the centre of the cake before baking?
How does this turn out looks wise, what am I aiming for?

Am trying to compile some of my favourite simple SC recipes for a friend who has decided she cant use hers and wants to throw it out, am trying to give her a couple of guaranteed winners that will help her.

Pooky

Kidkat - hope you're ok, sorry to hear things with DH are bad. You know where we all are if you need to rant.

Peanut - if you have a walk in centre or out of hours service it might be worth calling in and asking them to sort you a new script.

Fun and games here with kitchen works still underway. Thought I'd finished all the prep in the extension and was just about to reseal some cracks in the coving when a chunk of it came away in my hand.....so I pulled the rest of it down and made good the walls and ceiling. We've had an electrician here to put in a new consumer unit, the boiler people have been back as the boiler controller developed a fault (need a new one) and I found a slow leak has damaged quite a corner of the original kitchen ceiling (was hiding behind a cupboard) so have organised to get that sorted (need to remove a big chunk of ceiling to get to it so will need to replasterboard part of the ceiling too). New kitchen has arrived, cooker will be here mid week. All good fun.

DH is having a very "fally-over" day and keeps muddling his legs so I've made him go to bed with a film, he's safer that way.

westcoastscot

GINNY sorry to shout! wanted to attract your attention
Was thinking today about the young woman who I think may be a RL friend of yours? Was wondering how she's doing. I met someone today in a similar situation, and it reminded me we haven't heard from her for a while? (apologies for not recalling her name). If I recall she was starting a new job?
Edited to add: SmileyT - there, I remembered!!

There are a few people we've not heard from for a while - hope everyone is ok and safe, just busy in the real world.

Kidcat in older recipes cakes tended to be heavier and ovens non-fan, and we made a well in the middle - just a dip really - so that the cake cooked evenly and didn't rise up in the middle and stay lower at the sides. It was the only way to get a flat cake top.

WCS

kidcat

WCS - Thank you, I asked about smileyt (I think) last week, but no-one seems to have heard I believe.

Pooky thank you - its hard going at the moment and I really dont know what will happen - its looking likely that I will end up going and renting him a bedsit and moving him out though.

meanmarie

Kidcat...hugs

Peanut2013

kidcat wrote: »

Peanut as your little one is so young, maybe your doctor thought you were breastfeeding so couldnt give you the adult dose?

I can empathise, I woke last Sunday with earache and its not really gone away even after my antibiotics.

I wondered this but then remembered he specifically asked if I was. The pharmacist even said she's almost certain he's clicked the wrong one. She said I can try this stuff but she can't see it touching the pain! Yippee.

Hopefully LO gives us a good night tonight to help me rest up a bit more

Tomorrow morning should be good. OH is going for a ski with a friend while me and LO have a catch up coffee with another friend I've had the sign off to start skiing again but it's been so long I'm nervous! Lol. Need to get some training in as have major Assesment in June and currently no hope of passing! Lol.

Night all xx

stiltwalker

Big hugs kidcat - sorry you are having it so rough at the moment, you have enough on your plate without that. X

Right, finally sat down today! been a busy one with Church Easter Fair this morning, felting workshop this afternoon, then feed bath and bed for the kids, then I had to go to Mr T - had an online shop booked for yesterday which got cancelled and rescheduled for today due to weather only to get cancelled again, would be ok except that didn't get a call either time!!! DH is going to have words with the dotcom manager when he is back in work on Tuesday. Got back home for about 8.50 and then had to finish off the baking for DD's cakefest party tomorrow - managed to have a bit of tea in the middle of that (MrT finest meal deal - so enjoying the vino!) then ironed clothes for Church tomorrow and finally got sat down ....... phew!

All sorted for tomorrow now - got a coffee cake, Victoria sponge, tea loaf, cherry cake, lemon drizzle, triple choc chip muffins, carrot cup cakes and 2 dozen jam tarts! Think I should have enough but you never know with some of the cake monsters that are coming! (and the cake monsters that live here!! - DD and DH!)

Hugs to anyone else that needs them - stay warm and safe and take care if you have the white stuff. X

ginnyknit

Hi all, had the lurgy for a few days so been a bit below par, to say the least I was just passing the office when I heard someone shouting me, it was WCS so I thought I had better stop and answer, would be rude not too :rotfl:

Smileyt is indeed my buddy in RL. As I write this she is apparently snuggled up with her doggies having a well earned rest. Her new job seems pretty good though she is wearing her little legs down with all the miles she covers in a day. The Art Gallery certainly picked the best person for the job as she is loving it and it has lots of events for her to help out with. She is also busy in the community helping out people who need advise, bless her tiny cotton socks. We catch up online when we can and she seems a happy bunny. Will tell her you and kidcat have been asking about her.

Kidcat, sending hugs. maybe the threat of moving him out will bring him to his senses. But whatever happens we are all here for you xxx

Pooky

Kidkat - does he know how you're feeling? Is there anything specific he's doing/not doing to make you feel this way or is it just a "drifting apart" thing? DDs were 2 and 4 when I woke one morning and thought " no more, I just can't do this for another day" I asked him to leave there and then. It had been brewing for a good year or so, we didn't fight or argue, we just didn't get on, there was no love, it was just like living with a very annoying housemate. Everyone around us suggested going for councilling but you can't revive a relationship that's been broken for so long.

Huge hugs and remember that you're allowed to be happy x