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janb5

Chocolate Tiffin

 8 oz biscuit crumbs - I use ginger biscuits.

4 oz butter/marg

2 oz sugar

1 tablespoon syrup

1 tablespoon cocoa

Cooking chocolate

Melt butter, sugar  syrup and cocoa in a large pan.  Stir in the  biscuit crumbs.  Mix well. Put into greased shallow tin/square tin. Press down and allow to cool.

 Melt choc and place on top.   Avoid MW as it tends to burn.  I use a small pyrex dish set over gently simmering water. Add a small amount of syrup to the chocolate while melting it.  When set cut into pieces.  Nuts or sultanas can be added for a change.

 

Honeysucklelou2

Sounds delicious...will put biscuits on the shopping list  for this week.  Thank you.

janb5

Elderly biscuits would work great...!  Lidl are the cheapest for ginger biscuits.

Honeysucklelou2

Last night I got totally absorbed in reading a book, not a hard read, total escapism but enjoying having the time to simply read. I have a couple of other books on the go that I’d  like to get finished.

I’ve got to go into work today to collect some bits and pieces, then hopefully get cracking with some more digging at the allotment.

Have a good day everyone.

Drawingaline

janb5 said:

Chocolate Tiffin

 8 oz biscuit crumbs - I use ginger biscuits.

4 oz butter/marg

2 oz sugar

1 tablespoon syrup

1 tablespoon cocoa

Cooking chocolate

Melt butter, sugar  syrup and cocoa in a large pan.  Stir in the  biscuit crumbs.  Mix well. Put into greased shallow tin/square tin. Press down and allow to cool.

 Melt choc and place on top.   Avoid MW as it tends to burn.  I use a small pyrex dish set over gently simmering water. Add a small amount of syrup to the chocolate while melting it.  When set cut into pieces.  Nuts or sultanas can be added for a change.

 

This is similar to a recipe my grandma always used. Haven't made it in years, need syrup. We always used digestives whizzed up in the food processor. 

Not sure my waistline needs this cake though 🤔 but I can second how lush it is, heavenly. 

Sun_Addict

My WW workshops are via Zoom for the time being.  It works quite well and it's better than not having them at all.  I'm glad you got absorbed in your book, I'd been struggling to concentrate on mine but it's getting better now my mind has stopped buzzing with C-19 news.

crazy_cat_lady

Oh my goodness - that tiffin recipe  
Hope that your chat with ds1 went ok HSL - I've just done my April budget, with a lot of gratitude that I'm still being paid... my council tax is still on 25% discount so a minimal increase as well.
I've taken a leaf out of your book and started walking. It's quite nice to have the time to do stuff I wouldn't normally dream of doing and I've now discovered loads of places to go blackberry picking later in the year...

savingholmes

Hope you manage a good chat with DS1. Tricky times with bills and making everything balance.

Honeysucklelou2

Thank you SH, CCL, DAL & SA.

CCL - so glad you are enjoying walking and well done on discovering  blackberry picking opportunities!  Lots of our best spots have been discovered on walks🙂.

The  direct debits left my account on Wed and Thursday. I am very thankful to have been paid. Another £41 has been paid off the debt figure, so small steps downward.  I have been looking carefully at the debt figures. Interestingly both window loans started off at the same amount. I have made a few one off payments on one of them and the gap between the 2 balances is really widening. Those few payments, although not very much have had a significant difference on the interest / repayment ratio, which over time has made this gap. If I can squeeze £15 from somewhere, I could get 1 window loan into the £800s which is progress, albeit slow!

I’ll have to brave Mr T’s later but will wait until this evening. Hoping to get to the allotment later to get some more soil preparation done. I did plant out the first lot of mangetout yesterday so will see if the plants have escaped the notice of the local rabbit population. The beds are fenced but having kept rabbits before, I know how high they can jump when their minds to it .

Cherryfudge

The only time I ever attempted to grow peas, something nibbled them away to nothingness and I've never tried again. Sad. It could have been mice as we don't get wild rabbits. I hope your mangetout all survive!