Family of 5 'shop from home'food storage challenge...

JHKE

Thanks for that, am on 2nd prove now so will put them in oven once I've pick my son up...

D&DD

Thanks Yategirl I'll give it a whirl and see I'll only poison myself first as I'm the official tester :rolleyes:
I just need to drag myself off here and get in the kitchen..this chair is becoming raaather comfy

purpleivy

Yategirl wrote: »

am sure I have read somewhere that someone does make dairy-free yoghurt like that.. but I can't find the info. Worth a try I reckon

I drained a tin of fruit this morning for our yoghurt and am left with the "light syrup" - what can I do with it? Can't bring myself to throw it out - I have paid for that!

I need an answer for that too....poached reduced price pears just before Christmas.... 4 bags at 40p each. Poached one lot with aging (not aged!) port and one lot with lemon ( old lemon liqueur found in cellar!) and vanilla. We had them with ice cream/cream, made the rest into pear tart for new years eve, even glazing with apricot glaze (got post christmas for 30p in Booths).


PS. thanks for reminding me someone here that I should be using my Yogurt maker. Got it going this morning. Was without a kitchen from May til end November and I've really forgotten about all the things I did before.

What I'm getting to is that this morning I chiselled off the corner of an unidentified box in the freezer.... it's the left over syrup. What shall I do with it, other than waiting for next lot of cheap pears!

Mollymop5

Does anyone have recipe for sweet and sour sauce.I buy jars at the mo but would love to make my own though have no idea where to start.Thanks

purpleivy

I'm not sure how this will help you molly.

I used to work as cook in a boarding school, we were very much (at least the HM wife was very much old style and before Jamie hit the scene. I have a recipe we used to do.....you might need to scale it down LOL! Her idea of thrift would leave most of you lot in the shade :rotfl: LOL she sometimes took it a little too far.

This recipe was taken from a 'schools' cookbook, published as a fundraiser by a group of schools

1 A10 size pineapple pieces
10 medium sized onions
15oz marg
10oz cornflour
1/4 gallon mango chutney
16oz tomato puree
5oz sugar
1 pt vinegar
15 pints water
12lb cooked sausages (this doesn't sound much to me! It says to feed 120, maybe these were small children!)

Melt marg and cod chopped onions without browning for 3 minutes. Stir in moistened cornflour, pineapple syrup, chutney, tomato puree, sugar vinegar and water. Bring to the boil, stir well and add pineapple and cooked sausages cut into pieces (ahhhhhh that's how she did it!!!:T ). Bring back to the boil and simmer for a further 5 mins.

purpleivy

There are 2 great cheap pudds that we used to do in this book, but recipes state for 100!

Sand in the Red sea, which is more or less a crumble mix, baked on a tray in the oven for 10 mins, cooled and crumbled. Served with jam sauce (cheap jam and cornflour/water)

Birdseed and custard
Melted marg added to dry ingredients oats, cocoa, demerara sugar, rice crispies/puffed wheat/cornflakes or a mix. ALso for 100, maybe I can scale it down if anyone is interested

rosieben

purpleivy wrote: »

There are 2 great cheap pudds that we used to do in this book, but recipes state for 100!

Sand in the Red sea, which is more or less a crumble mix, baked on a tray in the oven for 10 mins, cooled and crumbled. Served with jam sauce (cheap jam and cornflour/water)

Birdseed and custard
Melted marg added to dry ingredients oats, cocoa, demerara sugar, rice crispies/puffed wheat/cornflakes or a mix. ALso for 100, maybe I can scale it down if anyone is interested

Yes please! I would love any of these recipes you care to share - sounds really OS! Particularly like the sound of the birdseed

Edited to say, I'm quite happy to scale down, I used to use a few recipes from the army catering manual, now lost unforunately

Yategirl

Yes please to the recipes PI! and any tales about how she went too far with the thrift!

D&DD

I usually make a flan with this
DS1 has a thing about mandarin flan...unfortunately so do I so I have to fight him for it :rotfl:

Just had a bit of a shock...read my meters :eek: :eek: :eek:
On my calculations...which hopefully are waaay out my winter bill is going to be........£468 :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

OH is on his way home...gotta look busy

Yategirl

D&DD wrote: »

I usually make a flan with this
DS1 has a thing about mandarin flan...unfortunately so do I so I have to fight him for it :rotfl:

Just had a bit of a shock...read my meters :eek: :eek: :eek:
On my calculations...which hopefully are waaay out my winter bill is going to be........£468 :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

OH is on his way home...gotta look busy

please come back soon and tell us more about the flan!

:eek: how much?! I hope it is way out and the bill is much smaller! Mind you... I am dreading the next bill now the prices have gone up.....