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Hard_Up_Hester

Can anyone recommend a website with recipes measured in cups rather than with scales, scales don't work on a boat and I want to make a light fruit cake.
Many thanks.

Islandmaid

Hester I have used this recipe when out of eggs, it's in cups

https://www.kidspot.com.au/kitchen/recipes/quick-and-easy-fruit-cake-81

Hard_Up_Hester

Brilliant, thanks Island Maid

maryb

For DD1's last birthday I made a gin and tonic flavoured cake. Yum!

In case anyone is horrified, it was her 28th birthday!!

MMF007

Welcome new posters!!
Welcome Donkey - awww, isn't it lovely and gentle. We had 3 over a few years when I was a kid. Their names were Muffin, Jacko and Jenny. Fairly obvious names to choose but they were all such characters. The first one wandered in from his paddock one afternoon and when my dad came home from work, walking up the front path he saw Muffin staring OUT of the front window at him :rotfl:

About to look up Lammas bread! Although I too am concentrating on low carbs atm. Have 2.5 stone to lose. Was doing well until end of last year. Finally getting back to the right mindset* and am determined. Mostly because I have seen nice clothes i want to be able to wear, and to get fitter so i can enjoy more hillwalking * I know i am because DH went for a chippy tea tonight and i said No, and cooked spicey chicken with cauli and broccoli for me

Softstuff

I'm so glad it worked for you Fuddle. Substitutions are my special skill... mostly because for many years I kept the grocery budget so tight I worked round more expensive ingredients (and nobody noticed, not even the original recipe owners!).

Mardatha, are we going to have to strap you up like Hannibal Lecter??

Monna, glad you're having a lovely time xx

Islandmaid and Mardatha, you don't have to miss cake, you can have your cake and eat it:
https://www.cookinginspiredbylove.com/yogurt-cake/
(I also made a choccy version adding 2 tbsp cocoa - no reason you couldn't have a coffee and walnut version... in fact, I'll make that this weekend)
You can also have donuts:
https://www.wholesomeyum.com/recipes/low-carb-donuts-recipe-almond-flour-keto-donuts/
Cookies:
https://www.wholesomeyum.com/recipes/low-carb-donuts-recipe-almond-flour-keto-donuts/
Ice cream:
https://natvia.com/pb-icecream/
I'm also planning tiramisu and cheesecake soon. We don't miss out at all, we just work around. Shoot, I couldn't go on without cake :rotfl: If I was round the corner I'd bring you both cake!

Hester, if you visit the site taste.com.au, a lot of australian recipes are in cups.

Squiggly_Diddly

Thank you for the welcomes !!!55357;!!!56898; I love cake... I used to regularly do wedding cakes & similar for friends/family for a few years but that has dropped off where other things have take over. I do enjoy baking and cooking but trying to reign it in as I need/want to shift some weight. I figure while there!!!8217;s nobody else in the house, in theory it should be easier..!! The Lammas bread sounds tasty too - we have a weekend Lammas festival here in late July, and various other pagan based events in the county to celebrate nature and the seasons.

My plan this weekend is to sort through my freezer, organise it a bit & do a list of the contents so that I can meal plan. I don!!!8217;t think I have any camels, donkeys or elephants in there... Also need to prepare a range of lunch options or I will end up buying something in the refectory each day which will not be kind to my hips or budget... !!!55357;!!!56883;

However first today I!!!8217;m off along the coast to return my sister & nieces home after a lovely week. That means a visit to her Home Bargains as it!!!8217;s one of the nearest two to where I live !!!55357;!!!56898;

Have a good day all!

Sorry about the numbers, need to find/change the setting on the phone/iPad so it doesn!!!8217;t do it....

Hard_Up_Hester

Thanks Softstuff, I'll check that out.
We are now heading towards Hungerford, six miles and 16 locks to get there, not sure how far we will get today. I'm also not sure where there are any mooring places.
It's bright and sunny at the moment but it's not meant to last, hey ho, I'll get wet again, I've only just dried out from yesterday.

Jazee

Hester, I hope it dries up for you today. Welcome newbies and lurkers.


I don't post much, I don't have much to say, and the only animals I can offer are my doglets, LittleyDog and Poppet. Real characters though, and no one is allowed to freeze or eat them, so there.


Gardening today.

silvasava

Morning all - I'll budge up a bit to make room for the newbies
Up in Lunnun town yesterday with DS1 and friends to meet another friend. Spent most of the time in Borough Market - oh the food choices - thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Did think of Mar as one of the fish counters had a blinking great octopus but wasn't sure if she liked fish......... felt sorry for the octopus though.
My trip to Monna's neck of the woods is off - high winds and rain tomorrow so not fun - but will reschedule asap!
Off to pick up a Preloved freezer in a wee while to replace my garage one - it's a frost free one Woop Woop!!!