Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Thinking about your bread rolls, can bread-and-butter-milk-pudding be made with rolls?
That might be an option for using them up. Dead easy, too!



This recipe says any bread, so I suppose you can!
I suppose a slice would equate to half a roll.

100g sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
5 slices of any bread
Butter
3 handfuls sultanas
500ml milk
2 eggs



Method
Prep:10min › Cook:30min › Extra time:5min resting › Ready in:45min
Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas mark 5. Lightly grease a baking dish.
Mix together the sugar and cinnamon.
Butter 5 slices of bread, cut in half.
Layer the bread in the dish adding a handful of sultanas and the sugar mix as you go, covering each slice.
Mix the milk and eggs together and whisk.
Pour over the bread and leave to absorb for 10 minutes.
Bake in the oven for 35 to 45 minutes, until the pudding is set and browned.
Tip
It looks like you have added too much milk, you haven't. This pudding has lots of sugar-tastes bloody good though!! The drier the bread, the more butter I put on.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Thinking about your bread rolls, can bread-and-butter-milk-pudding be made with rolls?
That might be an option for using them up. Dead easy, too!

I don't want to "use them up" as such.... and, even if I did make a B&BP then all I'd be doing is swapping one form of bread for another - and it'd still need to be frozen as there'd be too much

I bought these bread rolls to use as bread rolls - they're big and floppy ones. HUGE and soft. I looked to see if any were 30% off (pack of 4 is usually 49p) and they had quite a few, so I thought "if I don't get two packs I'll regret it".

I've just sliced them all in half and put one pack in the freezer. I've removed one chicken in breadcrumbs from the freezer.

I'm now eating one roll, with marg.... lunch will be one roll filled with the chicken thing .... leaving two, which I might eat later ... or might just put in the freezer.

There's too much "bread stuff" in the freezer really, I already have in there: 1 bread roll, 6 crumpets, 2 bread muffins. Bready stuff takes up a lot of room.

EDIT: Just had a little poke around in the freezer and managed to "repack" drawer 2 really tight and get the new rolls in there. So top drawer just contains 1.5Kg of oven chips and 1Kg of brussels. So there's a small space there now if I do have to freeze two rolls.

PasturesNew

You might remember me mentioning the other day I'd "won a prize". Allegedly a recipe book, which I said I'd see if it were old tat, or could be wrapped as a random stocking filler and gifted away ....

Well ... it's arrived.

What a let down. If I were of the angry sort I'd be off to their Facebook page to slam into them about how rubbish they are.

It looks like the sort of "free recipes" booklet you'd be able to pick up in a supermarket by the sausages stand. It has 6 "recipes" in it.... I kid you not.

I suspect "every butcher and his dog" were giving these away to customers the length/breadth of the country.

It's the sort of thing you'd flick through in 1.3 seconds, then toss in the bin.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

You might remember me mentioning the other day I'd "won a prize". Allegedly a recipe book, which I said I'd see if it were old tat, or could be wrapped as a random stocking filler and gifted away ....

Well ... it's arrived.

What a let down. If I were of the angry sort I'd be off to their Facebook page to slam into them about how rubbish they are.

It looks like the sort of "free recipes" booklet you'd be able to pick up in a supermarket by the sausages stand. It has 6 "recipes" in it.... I kid you not.

I suspect "every butcher and his dog" were giving these away to customers the length/breadth of the country.

It's the sort of thing you'd flick through in 1.3 seconds, then toss in the bin.

So, who is going to be the lucky recipient this Xmas?

ivyleaf

GDB2222 wrote: »

So, who is going to be the lucky recipient this Xmas?

Whoever's irritated PN the most? :rotfl:

chris_m

Well, I've been having an interesting few days. Last week, I decided that it was time to start doing something about things that I'd brought with me when I moved but "put to one side for later". Amongst them were two suitcases that I knew contained old (some very old) family photos and papers that Dad had had and I intended to just bung them in the cupboard under the stairs, still "for later".

However, I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to at least make sure I knew what there was, so I started going through them and documenting the papers (old birth/death/marriage certificates, etc.) so I had a single list of what was there. Also amongst the stuff were several family trees, done by various relatives at various times, plus work that Dad had done with it all.

I found a handy free family tree program so decided to bung them all in and try to tie all the different trees together into one place. Not only did I manage to get them all in and correctly linked but I also managed to make additional progress. Several of them just had a reference to there being links to some people of interest, about which I had known, but none actually stated what those links were.

I managed not only to identify those links, but also found some other people of interest for whom I could also expand the tree to tie them in correctly. I was surprised at how quickly I got interested in doing it, so I dare say some time I'll have a few more goes at it.

It's not bad going so far - we've had four knights (one of which was also Astronomer Royal and a Nobel Laureate), several clergymen (one being the first Bishop of Liverpool and another, his son, being the Dean of Westminster who wrote the text on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior), several leading architects (including my grandmother who was the first "articled" woman architect), a Formula One racing car designer, the "Father of the Industrial Revolution", the philosopher who coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine" and a radio comedian whose work I much enjoyed even when I didn't know of a family connection.

I obviously represent the hoi-polloi element of the family, I hasten to clarify


On a different note, I thought twas mid-November - I've got some flippin' raspberries ripening on some of my canes !!!!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

You might remember me mentioning the other day I'd "won a prize". Allegedly a recipe book, which I said I'd see if it were old tat, or could be wrapped as a random stocking filler and gifted away ....

Well ... it's arrived.

What a let down. If I were of the angry sort I'd be off to their Facebook page to slam into them about how rubbish they are.

It looks like the sort of "free recipes" booklet you'd be able to pick up in a supermarket by the sausages stand. It has 6 "recipes" in it.... I kid you not.

I suspect "every butcher and his dog" were giving these away to customers the length/breadth of the country.

It's the sort of thing you'd flick through in 1.3 seconds, then toss in the bin.

GDB2222 wrote: »

So, who is going to be the lucky recipient this Xmas?

ivyleaf wrote: »

Whoever's irritated PN the most? :rotfl:

.

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Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

It's not bad going so far - we've had four knights (one of which was also Astronomer Royal and a Nobel Laureate), several clergymen (one being the first Bishop of Liverpool and another, his son, being the Dean of Westminster who wrote the text on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior), several leading architects (including my grandmother who was the first "articled" woman architect), a Formula One racing car designer, the "Father of the Industrial Revolution", the philosopher who coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine" and a radio comedian whose work I much enjoyed even when I didn't know of a family connection.

I obviously represent the hoi-polloi element of the family, I hasten to clarify

I doubt that that statement will stop PN getting the klaxon out!

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

.... four knights ....

Four! One's a Posh Alert ....

I'm REALLY glad you've taken the time to go through the stuff - and not throw it out - and get "hooked" on who is who.

By the way ... Once a King, always a King, but once a (k)night is enough

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

By the way ... Once a King, always a King, but once a (k)night is enough

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: