The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

nosuperwoman

Oooh, is that mincemeat recipe fermented, perchance? Making it 'on trend' healthy and cool! 

Nargleblast

No, it doesn't hang around long enough to ferment!

MingVase

He's been diet controlled for ten years, a wee mince pie at xmas won't kill him off. He's very good most of the time.

greenbee

Mar - maybe you could make mini-mince pies? I quite often make them in mini-muffin tins. 

MingVase

Oh that would be a good idea-  ty GB.

ivyleaf

Mini mince pies don't work for me in that respect - I find myself thinking I'll have another one as "they're only small!" 

MingVase

Ivy Ssshhhhh!

pollyanna_26

Have you lookied at wartime recipes Mar? I remember mum and my aunties talking about how they managed mince pies and other treats in a time when sugar was very limited.

I'm back from no online access again. This laptop has travelled more than I have during recent months . New charger and fingers crossed. Thank goodness for the two family techies who haven't yet felt the need to kill me!

Need to catch up. I hope you've been behaving yourself. You're sounding very domesticated so maybe you're leaving patios etc alone.

pollyx

MingVase

Hii Pollywolly. I dont tend to bother with wartime baking, just because they dont have fat in. The few times I tried it things didnt go well..

I do not know what you mean  by patios. Not at all. Are they a kind of biscuit?

pollyanna_26

Not a biscuit Mar.

Patio. Noun. An area outside a house with a solid floor but no roof.

Used in good weather for relaxing,eating etc.

Very innocent apart from the uses covered by etc.

The digging up of sections under cover of darkness was never meant to be a use.

Very easy to hide the remains of a fluffy duckling but when it gets to hiding walkers who were never seen to come back down the hill after their walk and then mammals of the family Elephantidae it's way outside the intended use of a patio.

I really hope the man in the hat is on Discworld recording your every move.

You must have needed heavy lifting gear , floodlights etc. You have very unobservent neighbours. Perhaps they thought it better to leave you to it lest they too disappeared.

I must confess I don't know a lot about low sugar diets. I don't eat a lot of sugary things but can't drink a brew without sugar. Sometimes rather than sugar I put golden syrup on my porridge. That was porridge on Sundays as a post war child . I think mum was so relieved when rationng finally ended in the mid 50s she got a bit carried away and sugar on the daily porridge was replaced with syrup on a Sunday.

That's probably heresy to a Scot. I do make mine the traditional way water, Scottish rolled oats and a small pinch of salt. When cooking I only add salt to potatoes I'm going to boil. Might add a pinch to a casserole, stew etc but I'm not one for adding salt to meals after cooking.

DD and I haven't been in our favourite chip shop for nearly a year for an occassional bag of chips. We have an award winning chippie.

I've always been the customer saying go easy on the salt and no vinegar. No idea why but I've never been a fan of vinegar. Sometimes one or other of the children would come home with the latest pack of flavoured crisps , they never got those at home. The smell of them used to turn my stomach.

I did try instant porridge once under pressure from them, once only it was like wallpaper paste.

Earlier this year I picked up a box of cup a soups thinking they could be handy with Brexit etc. I tried one a few weeks ago and it tasted like very salty water. I know many with little or no cooking facilities have no choice but I do think cheaper easier alternatives should be healthier and help towards some sort of a balanced diet.

I caught up with the very nice young Big Issue seller outside our little coop yesterday. He's been missing for a few months. We had a socially distanced chat. He's one of the lucky ones with a decent roof over his head but I fear for so many in the present circumstances , It's bad enough when winter strikes but add in the pandemic and I hope we don't see the situation here where the local fire station opened their doors to keep the vulnerable safe when the local council failed to step up.

I don't buy the Big Issue anymore. I think it's overpriced now. I always get him a hot drink from the machine in the coop and something to eat. DD used to slip him a couple of quid. He sells enough copies to keep his accommodation so she views it as giving him some choice to spend it. He's not one for drugs , alcohol etc. He buys ingredients to cook the food he ate as a child. He's clean ,polite and caring. The first thing he asked was is dd ok. We got to know him as his pitch outside the coop is by the DRs so we'd always had a chat each fortnight. He's selling the BG to survive. He needed to flee from danger elsewhere in the world. I'm thankful none of mine had to do that , it doesn't bear thinking about. He is educated and had a future planned but circumstances changed that. There but for fortune go you and I.

pollyx