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Pipkin
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Was going to make Nigellas slow baked black treacle ham..discovered tin of treacle expired in 2012..use it or bin it? Xx
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Those who are inclined to casual cruelty say that inside a fat girl is a thin girl and a lot of chocolate. Terry Pratchett
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Use it*
*unless it is furry or fizzing.0 -
It'll be fine. Even if it looks a bit "gritty", it'll still be fine once cooked. That stuff can survive nuclear wars.0
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It never goes out of date, but it can grow mould (fur) or ferment (fizz). So fur or fizz, chuck it, otherwise it'll be fine.I'm an adult and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want and I wish someone would take this power from me.
-Mike Primavera.0 -
How did we manage before 'use by' dates ?Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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If it's never been opened then it'll be fine - it's pure sugar so unlikely to kill you, and you're cooking it for so long that anything will probably expire anyway. I read the other day that some scientists ate a 46 year-old Christmas pudding so treacle that's three years out of date is positively juvenile compared to that.0
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use it - I would.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »Everybody died back then. If you can find anybody alive that was born before 1890 to disprove what I say ..... then I'll admit I might be wrong.
That's it. I'm officially adopting you to replace my great aunt Pat0 -
If it hasn't exploded (fermentation - build up of pressure - flying lid and mess) you are probably fine.But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,Had the whole of their cash in his care.
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I just used some that had a date of some time in 2010 and it was fine. Mind you we only just finished the huge batches of marmalade that I made in 2000 when my dad had his heart bypass ( had to do something whilst waiting for mum to phone).“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.”
Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One0
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