Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: that made me laugh out loud :j

Here's the next bit, just to torment you (there's lots of almondy bits because of the huge Approved Food order, which has been sitting in my freezer ):
Custard by Jack Monroe
2 bananas
300ml cold water
6 tsp dried milk
2 tbsp flour
2 egg yolks (freeze the whites for later use)
Optional: 1 tbspn sugar
Break the banana into chunks and combine it with the water and dried skimmed milk in a blender – buzz for 30 secs. Pour into a pan on medium heat for a few mins, reduce to simmer. Separate the yolk and the white, put yolks in a small bowl; add flour (and sugar if using) smooth to a paste. Spoon a little of the banana mix into it, a few times, mix well to stop it cooking. Return the whole thing to the pan, simmer on low heat for 10 mins or so, or till desired consistency reached.


Energy bars (peanut butter recipe)
125g unsalted butter
150 soft brown sugar
125g peanut butter
75g honey
zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon
200g oats
150g dried fruit, chop if large.
150g mixed seeds
Preheat oven to 160c, gas3. Grease and line a baking tin, about 20cm square.
Put butter, sugar peanut butter, honey and grated citrus in a deep saucepan over a very low heat. Leave until melted, stirring from time to time.


Stir oats, dried fruit and seeds into the melted mixture till thoroughly combined, spread evenly into the baking tin.


Bake for 30m, till golden in the centre and golden brown at the edges. Leave to cool completely in the tin, be patient. Will keep for 5 – 7 days in an airtight tin.


Frangipane
125g caster sugar
125g butter, room temp.
125g ground almonds
2 eggs
2 tblspns amaretto or 1 tspn almond extract
50g SR flour
Beat caster sugar, butter and ground almonds together till smooth, use food processor. Add eggs 1 at a time, mix well, then almond extract, then flour.
Use sponge dessert base below, and mincemeat: spread thinly with mincemeat, then cover with frangipane. Bake 35 mins at 180c, 160fan, until frangipane is browned. Cool for 5 mins before removing from tin, and cool on tray.


Lemon meringue pie
Lemon filling:
2oz sugar
juice of 2 lemons
zest of 1 lemon
2tblspns tapioca
2 egg yolks
Meringue:
3 egg yolks
3 and a half oz caster sugar
Oven heated to 360f, 160c. 1 cup water, sugar, lemon juice and zest in a pan, heat till near boiling, remove from heat. Mix tapioca with 2 tspns cold water and stir into the lemon mix.
Return to the heat and stir until thickened. Whisk the yolks and add them, stir well for about 1 min over the heat.
Pour onto your base. Beat the egg whites till stiff, gradually add the sugar, beating till its completely dissolved. Spoon on top, and bake for about 15 mins.


Rum Balls
2oz butter
2 tblspns molasses
2oz brown sugar
1tblspn cocoa
1 tblspn rum
2 tblspns ground almonds
1 cup mixed dried fruit
1 cup mixed chopped nuts
Slowly boil in a pan the butter, molasses and brown sugar. Remove from the heat and stir in remaining ingredients. Mix well. Cool and roll into balls, coat as you fancy – melted chocolate, cocoa, whatever.

Cheery_Daff

Oh no! Stop it, stop it!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Fortunately I don't have most of those ingredients so can't stop work and whip up a treat, but I can see some baking in my near future... :j

Karmacat

Final lot. Its really falling foul of max. posting size



Thing with all these, El, I wanted variety, I wanted yumminess, and I wanted easy and fairly quick preparation. As you know, I've been selecting, transcribing and summarising them for days, I take my treats seriously :D:D


Scotch pancakes
4oz SR flour
small pinch salt
1oz caster sugar
1 egg
1 quarter pint milk
Grease a heavy frying pan, whisk the egg with the milk. Sift flour and salt into a bowl, and add the sugar. Pour in the egg and milk mixture, and mix with a wooden spoon till smooth. Or just blend everything in a mixer.
Heat the pan, test temperature by dropping a small piece of the mix in; the underside should brown in less than a minute. Drop tablespoonsful of batter into the pan, and when the surface is covered in bubbles, turn with a slice and cook for half a minute on the other side. Wrap in a clean teatowel till ready to use. Spread with butter and jam.


Sponge cake: dessert base!
2 eggs
5 oz flour
2 tspns baking powder
2 tspns butter
Oven to 360f, 180c. Grease and flour an 8” tart pan or flan cake pan.
Whisk eggs and sugar till thick and creamy (and warm!). Fold flour and baking powder into the mix.
Melt butter in 2 tblspns boiling water and pour down inside of mixing bowl. Use a metal handwhisk then, careful not to over mix.
Pour into pan, gently make a depression in centre. Place in centre of oven, bake for 15 mins. Let cool for 5 mins before removing.

edinburgher

Those energy bars sound fantastic. I take it you get quite a few portions from that recipe? I'm counting several thousand calories from scanning the ingredients!

Karmacat

Not a clue! They come from Greying Pilgrim on here, I think she mentioned how high calorie they were, her partner likes them but she felt they were too rich for her, as far as I remember

I can't settle to much right now - needed something to eat, which I've had, and I put the washing machine on, done some phone calls etc, but it all feels bitty. I know what it is ... I'm putting off the big stuff, and the future-facing phone calls. Okay. I'll bite the bullet ...

Karmacat

Okay, did my phone calls and a good job too :eek: builder has booked me in for Monday 14th, but hadn't told me :eek: good job he hadn't booked me in for today!

Okay, all pretence of trading officially abandoned, I'm making the house builder ready, and dark-taxing it in the interim

Cheery_Daff

Good on you tackling the things you'd been putting off! :j Naughty builder...

edinburgher

Just make sure that you don't help the builder go tax dark, I believe that sort of thing is frowned on these days :rotfl:

Karmacat

Goes to show, doesn't it

I've been dashing about the house getting the rubbish and the recycling together, then hanging up the washing. Also gathering together the new plants that *really* need to be outside, the salad burnet and the parsley are getting a bit leggy - they *need* that little window trough I have. I'll hide them, and the gifted tubers, from frost underneath the patio table

When the absolute downpour outside dies down a little :eek: awfully wet out there.

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

Just make sure that you don't help the builder go tax dark, I believe that sort of thing is frowned on these days :rotfl:

:p:p Better not, no :A