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burtha

hi all 
  has anyone got a nice flapjack recipe. I can't find the one I normally use ,made the last batch with applesauce but kids complained.   I need to make a large batch as youngest son is eating for England and its costing a fortune.   . any ideas welcome please x 

Nargleblast

In old measurements - 4oz butter melted with 2oz sugar and 2oz golden syrup. 8oz oats mixed in.

Now the revolutionary bit - put into a greased glass baking dish and microwave on medium setting for 9-10 minutes. Take out, leave to cool and set firm, mark into pieces. I think I got the idea for microwaving from the great Jackie O.

monnagran

Just lost a post!  Take it from me that it was wise, witty and full of interesting information. 
It wasn't but you don't need to know that.

Nargle, that is also my 'go-to' recipe for flapjack.  It is also nice if you put a layer of the mixture in a tin, spread a layer of mincemeat over that and top with another layer of flapjack mix.  I always bake mine in the oven, but I imagine that you could microwave it.  It also uses up an excess of mincemeat.  I made far too much this year, forgetting that we wouldn't be having all the social functions for which I usually make a million and one mincepies.

How are you getting on mothernerd?  I imagine that you will be up to your eyes in arrangements,

You are very quiet Pollyanna.  Are you OK, pet?

Still running burtha?  You put us all to shame. A 10 minute brisk trot to the bus stop is my limit.  And that only if I'm late, which I  usually am.  Otherwise it is a leisurely stroll.

I hope you have all recovered from Christmas and New Year and that your cupboards are now clear of the shameful luxuries we all indulge in with the excuse that it's just once a year.  My shameful luxuries were a bottle of Bailey's (courtesy of DIL) and a box of chocolates (the revenge of a so-called friend).  They are now ex-luxuries.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I had to comment - my bottle of Baileys is still unopened 😉 

monnagran

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

I had to comment - my bottle of Baileys is still unopened 😉 

Ah, you're too late.  December is the month for drinking Baileys.  Would you like me to look after it for you?  It would be quite safe.

Honestly.

Cross my heart!

littlemoney

Nargleblast said:

In old measurements - 4oz butter melted with 2oz sugar and 2oz golden syrup. 8oz oats mixed in.

Now the revolutionary bit - put into a greased glass baking dish and microwave on medium setting for 9-10 minutes. Take out, leave to cool and set firm, mark into pieces. I think I got the idea for microwaving from the great Jackie O.

I hadn't realised flapjack could be cooked in a microwave. @Nargleblast what size dish do you use.

VJsmum

Flapjack recipe with condensed milk - makes it chewier (though super sweet)

Unbeatable easy flapjack recipe with condensed milk - Bubbablue and me
 
often found on a tin of carnation....

(though monna's mincemeat flapjack is delish - to the point where the family told me to stop making it as it was too nice.

Here's the recipe I use

Mincemeat flapjack..

8oz margerine/butter
8oz sr flour
8oz sugar
8oz oats
2 tbsp of golden syrup

Melt butter and syrup in a saucepan over low heat.
Put all dry ingredients in a bowl.
When butter/syrup is melted pour over the dry ingredients..mix well.
Use half the mix to line the bottom of a tray..flatten well..spread mincemeat over it.
Use other half of mix over the top of mincemeat.
Put in the oven for 30 minutes at Gas mark 5..or until goldeny brown
Enjoy..

Once out of the oven, i mark the tray into squares and leave to cool in the tin as they are prone to disintegrating.

Nargleblast

littlemoney said:

Nargleblast said:

In old measurements - 4oz butter melted with 2oz sugar and 2oz golden syrup. 8oz oats mixed in.

Now the revolutionary bit - put into a greased glass baking dish and microwave on medium setting for 9-10 minutes. Take out, leave to cool and set firm, mark into pieces. I think I got the idea for microwaving from the great Jackie O.

I hadn't realised flapjack could be cooked in a microwave. @Nargleblast what size dish do you use.

I sometimes use a medium sized round Pyrex casserole lid, and sometimes a rectangular Pyrex dish which I think is about 10-12 inches long by about six wide. The best thing is to make up a batch of the mixture then look for the best sized dish that it will go in. The mixture shouldn't be spread too thinly, you need a bit of depth for a good flapjack. Sorry I can't be more precise, most of my cooking is trial and error.

mehefin

Sorry guys ..Mrs m ( and I with not too much persuasion) have gone through 4 bottles since Xmas!!!  Do you think we have a problem lol

pollyanna_26

monnagran said:

Just lost a post!  Take it from me that it was wise, witty and full of interesting information. 
It wasn't but you don't need to know that.

Nargle, that is also my 'go-to' recipe for flapjack.  It is also nice if you put a layer of the mixture in a tin, spread a layer of mincemeat over that and top with another layer of flapjack mix.  I always bake mine in the oven, but I imagine that you could microwave it.  It also uses up an excess of mincemeat.  I made far too much this year, forgetting that we wouldn't be having all the social functions for which I usually make a million and one mincepies.

How are you getting on mothernerd?  I imagine that you will be up to your eyes in arrangements,

You are very quiet Pollyanna.  Are you OK, pet?

Still running burtha?  You put us all to shame. A 10 minute brisk trot to the bus stop is my limit.  And that only if I'm late, which I  usually am.  Otherwise it is a leisurely stroll.

I hope you have all recovered from Christmas and New Year and that your cupboards are now clear of the shameful luxuries we all indulge in with the excuse that it's just once a year.  My shameful luxuries were a bottle of Bailey's (courtesy of DIL) and a box of chocolates (the revenge of a so-called friend).  They are now ex-luxuries.

I haven't been very quiet monna just a bit chatty on JackieOs new OS thread and scattering typos left right and centre!

I have nominated you for making the bunting for Jackies hopeful relocation to the IOW when the time is right. Not sure if you still watch Judge Judy but thought making bunting might be a pleasant change.

I am ok. Some problems with youngest recently but have stepped back for a while until she stops blaming me for all the ills of the world. Sometimes it's wise to take time out and get some much needed sleep. That's something I've had to learn recently for the sake of my sanity and own wellbeing. I do not exist to bear the blame for everything from a pandemic to everything else she can think of.

I had a bit of a lightbulb moment. There is a very long list of behaviours with a Borderline Personality Personality Disorder diagnosis. Many didn't seem to apply when I first worked my way through the long list. Some that did are now managed through the medication  and the intensive counselling she's had.

Recently she's been very abusive verbally to the point she's reduced me to tears with no idea why she's turned so nasty.

Today memories of the toxic ex came back. He was never diagnosed but both Drs who attempted to deal with him were convinced he had BPD. Back then they said he was Gaslighting me. Looking that up it did make sense as he tried to literally drive me mad thinking everything was my fault.

I found out from the Pension Service recently he had departed the world at the beginning of December. DD2 has a different form of BPD and she and youngest never got on with each other when they were growing up DD2 made youngests life a misery over the years accusing her of faking things to get all my attention. They stopped contacting each other a long time ago.

During yesterdays horrendous verbal attack it emerged that youngest had contacted DD2 after I told her he had died. DD2 has a way of twisting reality to suit her agenda and now has youngest convinced poor dad was the innocent party all along and  i was the problem.

She ought to try that on every local police officer trying to pin him to the floor, the ambulance driver he was kicking on the pavement outside the judges who ordered him to move at least 20 miles away and never come near us again and all the hospital staff he hit and verbally abused.

In recent years DD2 would come here then suddenly start twisting events and blaming me for all sorts. I haven't seen her since a few years ago when she had a big promotion at work and i took her to town to buy her new work uniform all seemed ok until her mood shifted and she hada sudden need to go home and asked me if I had rthe money for a taxi.

She phoned me when he wasn't answeing his phone so I tried contacting him with no reply. That when he'd falllen in a drunken stupor and fell against the door of his attic room and lay for three days until the cleaner heard him.

Fire brigade had to climb a ladder to take the attic window out so they could open the door to allow the police and ambulance crew access;

He'd broken his hip and done a lot of damage so she had me contacting the hospital while she worked. Answering their calls when he was being abusive and they needed someone to calm him down. Same when they moved him to a rehab unit with me having to try to talk sense into him when he'd attacked staff.

When he needed moving on I suggested to her she get him into care suilable for his problems. After a while I learned from eldest daughter that DD2 had moved him into a ground floor luxuary apartment with his own patio garden a short walk from here.

Youngest and I saw him once after that coming out of our DRs surgery in an electric wheelchair as we came out of the little Coop. He didn't recognise either of us and just trundled in to the Coop in his wheelchair. There is a perfectly good Dr nearer to where he was living but he was at our doctors which worried youngest.

It's been difficult during the pandemic trying to keep youngests anxiety down when she;s ECV but this is the icing on the cake. All the counselling . our Drs hard work and me trying to help her seem a waste of time.

I did identify gaslighting in DD2s behaviour a long time ago but now think it's what has happened recently with youngest. I'm not about to be anyone elses victim so am staying quiet,

I'll see how things go and if things dont improve will talk to Superdoc not for my sake but for youngests.Apart from his calls at the beginning she hasn;t seen him face to face since Feb last year.She has been in to the practice for urgent tests recently but hasn;t had a face to face with him since his call to stay indoors last year.

He set up the face to face appts every two weeks many years ago so he could gauge her moods on a regullar basis along with managing the health conditions and it's been difficult without them. I've been monitoring her ups and downs via email and spaced out visits and making suggestions when she's struggling and we've managed. A call to the surgery from me has brought some changes in medication and consultant appts.

I'll see how things go in the next few days though i wont be contacting her if I'm going to getting more verbal abuse.

Sotty for the rant but you know the background monna though I'm  not sure if the gates of heaven will sort this one out.

pollyx