Old Style Diary Archive - JUN 05

elona

Made vegetable soup in slow cooker overnight - this morning made home made bread rolls from dough made in breadmaker - made chicken burgers and have jam cooking in my Morphy Richards Fastbake breadmaker!:j

greenlogo

afternoon all

I've been working since the crack of dawn today, but I've got a portion of my homemade sausage casserolle in for lunch (and I may starve if I don't eat it soon..) which is lovely and O/S and I've arranged for a friend to come over this week and eat some of my H/M rhubarb crumble from the freezer this week.

I've also bought a loaf tin and some cake tines this weekend and I'm looking forward to making some lovely tasty things in them this week

You Ol'stylers have turned me into a baker! So much cheaper and healthier than giving my friends crisps and bought cakes and so forth, I ought to make some biccies soon too!

Does anyone have any experience of using gluten free flour for pastry? One of my friends is allergic to gluten and I'd like to make her mince pies for christmas (yes, I know it's early, I like to experiment) but I wondered if anyone had any advice?

elona

Big Hug to Curry Queen from me as well.

She is really missed and I hope she feels up to coming back soon!

Bogof_Babe

I've just invented a sandwich filling (well my own version of one you can buy for £1.19 a tub in the Co-op). Mine cost about 40p and there's enough for about 10 rounds of sandwiches!

Wanted to use up a tiny bit of onion (ordinary cooking onion - about a sixth of it left), which I chopped up very small and mixed with a couple of ounces of grated tasty cheddar and a couple of desertspoons of mayonnaise, with a shake of celery salt. It tastes just like the real thing, and should keep in the fridge for a couple of days. It would make a nice dressing on a burger or jacket spud too. Maybe I should have posted this on the recipe thread?

Wish I could say the rest of my morning was equally frugal - erm I'll gloss over the new bathroom carpet, lampshades, and taking our old curtains in to be dry cleaned before selling or storing them - £52!!! :eek:

Aril

Nothing too racy as I've been at work although did manage to find a much cheaper priced 1001 in Wilko along with 2 double CDs for £5 for presents so am chuffed. Am hanging around here before picking up the small person from school. Am off to a Solstice party tonight [don't ask!!] and husband has promised that we definitely get the breadmaker tomorrow enroute to picking up the new car.
Aril

apprentice_tycoon

greenlogo wrote:

Does anyone have any experience of using gluten free flour for pastry? One of my friends is allergic to gluten and I'd like to make her mince pies for christmas (yes, I know it's early, I like to experiment) but I wondered if anyone had any advice?

I have a friend with coeliac disease and I used to make cakes and pastry things for her including Christmas cake, pudds and mince pies with homemade mincemeat. She used to get flour on prescription but it was very difficult to make pastry out of, it wasn't too bad in cakes so long as it was a well flavoured cake like coffee or chocolate etc. I thought that it tasted yucky but she said that she was used to it.

I couple of years ago I found some flour made by Marriages at the health food shop that is fine for her to eat, there is no wheat or oats in it. I have just been to see if I had some in to read the ingredients but I don't. I can't even remember what it was called (probably just 'gluten free flour'!) but I know that nowadays Tesco sell it too. The only thing you have to remember is that it is plain flour and if you want it for a cake you will need to use baking powder but that will need to be checked over to see if it is gluten free.

I substituted the flour in recipes without any alteration and this flour tastes very good
If you need a recipe for HM mincemeat I can supply


edited...if you are making mince pies you need to make sure that the suet is not dusted with wheat flour. Broadlands suet is vegetarian and gluten free, I'm not sure if bought mincemeat is OK because of the suet situation

Also my cat was allergic to wheat when she was pregnant and lactating, poor thing nearly faded away in front of us....her symptoms sounded so like my friend's so I told the vet (who couldn't work out what was wrong with her, he said that if she lost any more weight it would be kinder to put her to sleep). He said that the cat was so sick anything was worth a try. I stopped giving her tinned meat in gravy and gave her meat in jelly, no cat biscuits at all and within days she was starting to improve. She is fine now

Galtizz

Bogof_Babe wrote:

I've just invented a sandwich filling (well my own version of one you can buy for £1.19 a tub in the Co-op). Mine cost about 40p and there's enough for about 10 rounds of sandwiches!

Wanted to use up a tiny bit of onion (ordinary cooking onion - about a sixth of it left), which I chopped up very small and mixed with a couple of ounces of grated tasty cheddar and a couple of desertspoons of mayonnaise, with a shake of celery salt. It tastes just like the real thing, and should keep in the fridge for a couple of days. It would make a nice dressing on a burger or jacket spud too. Maybe I should have posted this on the recipe thread?

Sounds great, could you copy it to the recipe thread (just start a new post and copy and paste)

My Nan had a lovely recipe using this sandwich spread but, with the amount of rubbish in the jars I haven't made it recently.

What she did was boil some eggs (hard boiled) shell them, chop them in 1/2 (long ways) scoop out all of the yolk and mix it up with some sandwich spread then spoon it back into the egg, serve cold. It was yummy a bit of something different to have with salad.

Bogof_Babe

Hi Galtizz - I've added my sandwich filling recipe to the main Recipes thread, but can I ask how it gets from there into the indexed links on the sticky? Does Squeaky sort them out for us? If so, I think that is excellent service! :beer:

Galtizz

Thanks. Yep, Squeaky indexes them all for us he's an :A isn't he

He doesn't do them every day but when he's done it you'll notice that his polite notice post has moved to the end so everything before the post is indexed everything after isn't

squeaky

He usually does it on weekends when things are a bit quieter