Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

Floss

Mrs LW if I make it this week, would your gingerbread keep until Christmas? Do you wrap it or just Tupperware?

Thanks,
Floss xx

nursemaggie

Oh Mrs LW when I got to the part of your recipe where you talked about decorating the gingerbread I could smell it cooking and I can still smell it cooking, really not just imagine. I wonder if I could get away with making one in my unreliable oven. Gingerbread is quite forgiving of fluctuating temperature. I have not made one for years.

I thought I could ice it like a Christmas cake as we don't like Christmas cake. I have missed icing the cake since I stopped making them about 15 years ago as no one ate it but mum. Once she had gone there was no point in making one.

Finished all the cleaning at the flat today we start stripping paper and preparing tomorrow. I think I will be making draught excluders when we move into the flat the doors are miles from the floor. It depends how far up the carper come but they look very high.

Big problem with bathroom door it is self opening not self closing. It is about a 5cm wider than the door frame. The last tenant must have lived on her own. :rotfl:

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Hi FLOSS I've made mine this afternoon to keep until Christmas day, I wrap it in two tight layers of foil and then pop it into a tin which then goes up into the storeroom over the garage which it just too cool to use as a bedroom. The longer you keep it the better it tastes and I'll take it out of the wrappings on the morning of the first day I want to serve it on and ice and decorate it then, you will be perfectly fine if you make one tomorrow.

NURSEMAGGIE gingerbread is better cooked cooler than hotter, it IS very forgiving and you can cook this one on a gentle heat for as long as it needs to get a skewer out clean, fluctuating temperature will not cause it any grief, go have a go, you know you want to!!! It would be lovely iced like a Christmas Cake too. I also like to give a slice of it 45 seconds in the microwave and serve it with hot custard as it makes a super pudding too!

meritaten

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Hi FLOSS I've made mine this afternoon to keep until Christmas day, I wrap it in two tight layers of foil and then pop it into a tin which then goes up into the storeroom over the garage which it just too cool to use as a bedroom. The longer you keep it the better it tastes and I'll take it out of the wrappings on the morning of the first day I want to serve it on and ice and decorate it then, you will be perfectly fine if you make one tomorrow.

NURSEMAGGIE gingerbread is better cooked cooler than hotter, it IS very forgiving and you can cook this one on a gentle heat for as long as it needs to get a skewer out clean, fluctuating temperature will not cause it any grief, go have a go, you know you want to!!! It would be lovely iced like a Christmas Cake too. I also like to give a slice of it 45 seconds in the microwave and serve it with hot custard as it makes a super pudding too!

Well, I was going to make sticky toffee cake as dessert (along with Christmas pud) for Christmas dinner dessert, but changed my mind now! its going to be gingerbread and custard! Thank you so much! my oven isn't very reliable so I have to be careful not to make 'temperamental cakes'! this sounds ideal to make now!

vulpix

Thank you so much Lyn,it sounds amazing.I will definitely have a go when I have got my kitchen back Vxxx

fuddle

Oh yes. Gingerbread for Christmas Eve. Normally we hobble together a gingerbread house but this year I think we'll get the cutters out. Definitely adding ground cloves this year Lyn, thanks

Not at all relevant to MM&Ming but I have just caught DH repeatedly blowing at the window sill. Seems he was trying to blow the candle out in the Christmas scene house... the candle that is LED. :rotfl:

I have been mending in the way of hand stitching. DH had a hole in the seam of his Thinsulate gloves. He hasn't now.

Also used up some wobbly carrot by adding it to flapjack. It turned out well so destined for breakfasts and lunch boxes tomorrow.

misstara

Mmm love gingerbread so will definitely be giving that recipe a go

Not much to report here, work has been horrendously busy so I haven't really had time to do much else. Minimising the food supplies in the flat as I've not had time to go shopping. Thinking that we'll eat down the supplies in the freezer ready to defrost it properly in the new year.

Finished making my christmas cards so have sat this evening and wrote them all out. Also wrapped my christmas presents while watching a christmas film so beginning to feel quite festive. I'm off on holiday from Thursday and will be heading to see my family for a bit before christmas so really looking forward to that.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend.

nursemaggie :eek::rotfl: to your bathroom door and :rotfl: to your DH fuddle

silvasava

Hi all - yes I did post about Ginger but was looking for a recipe that came out like the Jamaica Ginger cake. I found an old one that's near enough but Mrs L's looks like its hit the spot!! Happy baking everyone!

karren

ive just made my seasonal twinks hob nobs for friends and family, as its got cinnamon and giner in it and ill pop edible glitter in the cellophane bags,

Siebrie

Siebrie wrote: »

The church I go to celebrates the birthdays of its members if they are on a Sunday. The birthdayperson is requested (but not obliged) to bring a treat. It is only a small congregation, about 50 people every Sunday. As today is my birthday, I was up at 8 baking angel cakes. I made 12 vanilla, 12 ginger normal size, 9 vanilla, 9 ginger, 9 chocolate mini size, and the people really enjoyed it. Total cost about 4 GBP plus the electricity; it took me about an hour (I make these often).

Of course, I also had to treat my colleagues. I have been there over 8 years, and know most of them on a chat-round-the-coffeemachine basis, and just felt like treating all 80 of them :A
I baked 6 normal vanilla angel cakes, 6 normal size ginger angel cakes, I still had 9 normal size chocolate angel cakes, and baked about 100 mini size vanilla and ginger angel cakes. They were gone within an hour :rotfl: and cost me only 3 GBP :T and all baked before breakfast