Put away your purse & become debt-averse

crazy_cat_lady

I have never heard of a pyclet...

savingmore

I have heard of, and made pyclets eons ago, but never heard of the divide by 9 rule in trying to find a maths mistake in books. i shall tug that one away! really surprised having grown up in a family of maths geeks!

foxgloves

CCL - A pyclet (or pikelet) is pretty much the same as a crumpet, but not griddles in a ring, so it is flatter & a more irregular shape because instead of filling the crumpet rings, you just drop spoonfuls of mixture straight onto the hot griddle. I'd never heard of them either until I moved up here as a student but we did have crumpets & home and M&S scotch pancakes. My Mum liked all that sort of stuff cos it didn't need cooking!
Anyway, I saved one of yesterday's test batch of virtually free 'pyclets' for Mr F to try. I toasted & buttered it for him when he got in. He said he liked it, especially the sourdough flavour, but agreed that it defo wasn't a pyclet, but was indeed a blini. He said he'd defo eat them for lunch with toppings on & agreed that if they freeze, they'd make good breakfast pancakes for hungry nephews (my 11- year old nephew has a colossal appetite & could take down at least 10 of these!) with a range of toppings put out to choose from.
As sourdough 'discard' generally goes down the sink, a batch of blinis is practically cost free.
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foxgloves

Purple fairy - Thanks for that. That's really interesting. I have had a complex budget month so yes, I may well have transposed two digits as you suggest. Or I've thought that I've not needed to include some sort of swap in my Money Book, when actually I had muddled it & did need to. Something may come to light on my next Big Budget Day. I'll see.
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foxgloves

Savingmore - No, I didn't know that either. Don't we learn a lot on these threads? But I do remember back in primary school when we were doing times tables practice that our teacher taught us th trick for remembering the 9 x table. He said whatever we were multiplying by 9, we should subtract one, then whatever we'd need to add to that to equal 9 is the answer.
So 4 x 9...... subtract 1 from 4 to make 3. What do I need to add to 3 to make 9? 6, so the answer is 36. As a naturally cynical child esp with all things maths, I remember sitting at the back of the classroom (next to a lad with the 2nd best flares in the school!) & going through the 9 x table myself in my head to see if what we were being told was actually true!
So it's interesting that Purplefairy's accounting hack also involves the 9 x table.
Had better start my weekly Friday cleaning now as am determined to have some leisure time this afternoon.
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Baileys_Babe

Back in my youth, I worked in a bakery in the midlands and we sold pikelets. I hadn't long moved to the area and I had no idea what they were.

Foxgloves the pikelets sound like a useful addition to your repertoire. I imagine they freeze without a problem, have you tried it yet.

PurpleFairy Thanks for the reminder about being divisible by 9, I'd forgotten that tip, was the word you were looking for transpose?

Baileys_Babe

A trick I was taught for the 9 times tables is to use your fingers, so for example if you are doing 4X9
Hold up your 10 fingers and thumbs
Count from the left to the 4th digit and fold it down
The digits to the left of the folded digit are the 10's and those to the right are the units
This method works on multiples up to 10.

PurpleFairy26

baileys babe yes transpose was the word, couldn’t for the life of me find it in my brain yesterday. Thanks you!

crazy_cat_lady

Baileys_Babe wrote: »

A trick I was taught for the 9 times tables is to use your fingers, so for example if you are doing 4X9
Hold up your 10 fingers and thumbs
Count from the left to the 4th digit and fold it down
The digits to the left of the folded digit are the 10's and those to the right are the units
This method works on multiples up to 10.

This is how my kids have learned their 9x as well BB
I googled a picture of a pyclet - thought they looked like flat crumpets. I stupidly don't know what makes the holes in a crumpet (obviously I know it's a gas - presumably CO2 but I don't know where it comes from :rotfl:)

foxgloves

Lol, CCL.... you are such a chemist..... I mean, knowing it's CO2 but not where it comes from. In my sourdough pyclets (which weren't, cos they were blinis), holes came from the addition of a little bit of bicarbonate of soda, beating the mixture & letting it stand a couple of minutes.
Yes, pyclets are flat crumpets. They're quite regional so I'd never seen one before I moved North (yes, this was North to me, lol!) even though I'd worked in a baker's shop.
Having read some of your recent posts, I reckon if I ever need to know anything about breaded chicken (which I'm not sure I've ever tried), then you're the woman!
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