Home baking?

p-pincher

celyn90

And I like merainge (sp?) to be soft in the middle, so I don't buy those either.
I 100% agree with merainge. I absolutely love pavlova and there is no way you can buy one anywhere near as good as any shop brought or frozen one, ever. 4 egg whites, castor sugar,couple of spoons of white wine viger, same of cornflour and a capfull of vanilla extract must surely cost under a quid, Add cream and friut I can get a pudding for about 10-12 for about £2.50 . Thats value for money. It takes just over an hour to make but it would take me that long to get to tescos and back.

pennyocs

ive just made flapjacks for kids lunchboxes i enjoy baking i find it relaxing so we never buy any shop cakes.1 of my bugbears are those cake mixes in boxes at about £1.50 each i could make a kitchen full of cakes and biscuits for that,sometimes i feel like saying this to people i see buying them,muffins are the easiest to make and you can put alsorts in them i made some carrot and pineapple ones they sound awfull but were lovely kids love em

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

i went shopping yesterday, and if the cake mixes in boxes drive you mad.... youd have a dickie fit here pennyocs.... never have i seen so many kits n packet/box mixes... You can kind of see why a lot of people cant see the point in making from scratch... you can get yorkies, pancake, waffle mix etc that is in the plastic milk bottle containers, you pour in milk, shake and its done:eek: .... you name it and im pretty sure they have a mix for it :rotfl: and dont get me started on bread flour:mad: . trying to find "just flour".. no i dont want mixes, no i dont want the bl**dy yeast in it...i want flour... i have had to resort to getting it from the Naffi.. so when i come back at xmas to pick
up mum n bro im bringing it back with me :T ... okay im calm

Hi frogga.... dont worry i came back from shopping without and cakes, biccies, crisps, choc etc:A ... i am on a mission

rachelleblondel_2

Its homebaking every time for me. Whilst I like to be as frugal as possible taste, ethics & the knowledge that there are no added nasties are big motivators.

It is also really important to get the kids cooking & making cakes & biscuits get my 2 boys interested everytime. Infact my son (9) is cooking spaceman eggs at the moment, slightly concerned about the smell & smoke drifting from the kitchen...but hey he's gotta learn!!:rotfl:
Rachelle

p-pincher

God I was looking at all the mixes as well the other day and I cannot believe people buy them especially thing like yorkshire pudding and pancakes. How easy are they too make. Whne i first started making yorkies i ued to always do it wrong but now ive got a really good recipe I can honestly say they have never ever not turned out, and pancake batter is a joke. My mum paid nearly a quid the other day from tesco for it, the little american ones. Considering i make them every Saturday morning with SRflour, a bit of milk,Sugar, and an egg, I had to tell her how much she'd been ripped off. Her answer was she couldn't be bothered!!!! This from the woman who taught me too cook. She now uses frozen yorkies and frozen roaties.Hideous!!!

Cazzdevil

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

home made has much more "fill"... if i buy bread i could easily eat 6 slices:o ..hence my joining froggas campaign....hello frogga:D ...but now 2 slices of home made bread is enough for me or a sandwich.. and for me a lot of shop cakes are all airy fairy..... you cant beat a slice of homemade cake

That's the most logical thing I've read so far. Homemade cakes are often thought of as "stodgy", but that's because there's actually ingredients in them <<shock horror!!>> I quite often make banana loaves and weetabix brownies and muffins and stuff and okay, they're not as light and fluffy as shop bought ones but the ceneral consensus among my mates is that they're much better and more filling.

p-pincher

Id love to make homemade bread but its alway scared me(as well as jam making) I was considering a breadmaker but when i looked on amazon and argos the choice was endless and I had no idea what to look for. When everyone makes there own do you use a breadmaker or by hand? A friend make her own bread ready for every morning but it cost her much more than a loaf cos of all the ingrediants she buys(strong white flour and im sure she buys everything hovis). Can you use more cheap ingrediants? I alway use value ranges with absolutely no complaints.thanks

dawnylou

I just like to bake! And I like to see other people enjoying something and knowing that I made it!

Sad I know!

freyasmum

Dawnylou,

I agree completely. I, too love to bake and even if cost was the most important factor, I would rather go without.

I read once somewhere that home baking would be tolerated by guests, but it wasn't considered as good or 'posh' as shop bought stuff. Well, blow me, but I'd much rather have a nice bit of home cooked food (not just talking about baking here) rather than some of the rubbish you can buy, even at the more expensive shops!

Lx

juno

We currently have loads of packets of batter mix that my sister once bought and then went off as she realised it wasn't as nice as nomal batter