The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

candlelight_2013

When you go in next buy the chocolate fudge one, that's if you like chocolate, I think you will like it.

In our Lidl they had a carrot cake mix as well but I haven't bought that. I was just surprised to find it with the bread mixes

With the toffee cake I made it in a large round sponge tin and then popped some buttercream on the top when it was cold. It does make a lot of cake:)

Candlelightx

Nargleblast

Message for MrsLurcherwalker if you happen to be passing by the Fence.....I remember you recently posted your jellied beetroot recipe, but I couldn't find it, so had a go from memory. I knew it involved cubed cooked beetroot, raspberry jelly and vinegar. It turned out ok, but OH asked if I could make it slightly less tangy next time. Could I be an absolute pain and ask you to post the recipe again, just in case I missed a vital ingredient or something? Many Thanks!

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OK

Cooked beetroot peeled and diced
1 pack of raspberry jelly(not no sugar)
1 pint of malt vinegar to each packet of jelly
sterilized hot jars to bottle it in with plastic lined screw top lids.

Cook the beetroot, peel it and dice it to the size you like (I like smaller dice). Sterilize the jars in a low oven. Make up the jelly with boiling vinegar. Put the cubes of beetroot into the hot jars if the beet is hot or let the jars and the jelly cool if the beet is cool and top the beetroot with the jelly vinegar mix, pop on the lids and wait for the jelly to set. Can be stored out of the fridge but needs to be kept in the fridge once the jar is opened to use.

If you find the malt vinegar too strong you can always use another vinegar say white or red wine or cider vinegar which might make it less tangy? will cost you a bit more though as malt is the cheapest I knoiw of, I buy in 5 litre containers at this time of year. They stay good until this time next year if they don't get used.

Nargleblast

Thank you Mrs LW , you are a diamond!

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It's a pleasure (more like a lump of lava me, same compound, different appearance)!

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MARDATHA I've just read in the Telegraph that this year there has been such an influx of aphids that they have decimated the KALE crop, apparently all brassicas are affected so cabbages, cauliflowers, sprouts, broccoli etc. DO YOU FORGIVE ME YET???

There really is a piece in there saying this, I expect that means prices for all greens will be high this year more's the pity!

ivyleaf

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

MARDATHA I've just read in the Telegraph that this year there has been such an influx of aphids that they have decimated the KALE crop, apparently all brassicas are affected so cabbages, cauliflowers, sprouts, broccoli etc. DO YOU FORGIVE ME YET???

There really is a piece in there saying this, I expect that means prices for all greens will be high this year more's the pity!

Oh dear, don't like the sound of higher prices for greens I wonder if that will mean the prices of root veg will end up rising as well, as demand for them increases as people decide they don't want to pay the price asked for green veg?

silvasava

Oh Oh - only green veg I can plant this late is ................ Spinach! ( did you think I was going to say Kale ) might get some Swiss Chard in if I'm quick!!

mardatha

*Having a major panic attack. Or maybe it's hysterics*

ivyleaf

Aw, Mar :D Hope you've recovered this morning!

Well, we are meant to have the tree surgeons coming today to reduce the height of our sycamore tree (we don't want to lose it altogether, as it gives both us and the house behind us some privacy) but it's windy and going to rain hard, so I can't imagine they'll come.

Oh well, that means we'll have the money in our account a bit longer. It's an ill wind, so to speak

DD2 and family have to drive back from Cornwall in nasty weather though

I was telling DS earlier about the winter of 1988; we'd had the "Great Storm" in October '87, and another nearly as bad in January '88, I think it was.

I had the radio on, that January day, and the DJ was encouraging listeners to phone in with their stories of how the storm had affected them. One lady said she had been meant to have all her windows replaced that day, but in view of the weather she hadn't expected the glazing company to turn up; however, they did, and took out all her old windows, pending the arrival of the new ones.

Then she had a message to say that the van carrying the new windows had blown over on the motorway and all the windows had broken :eek: