From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

kayannie

GP - not sure about Xmas pudd, but I make a marmalade cake in a loaf tin, which uses 2 tablespoons of marmalade. I made one a couple of days ago, it only uses basic ingredients & keeps well. Let me know if you'd like the recipe. 
KA x

Greying_Pilgrim

Yes please kayannie, can you post it here, just in case it would be useful to others?  (If that's not too much trouble of course - I know you're a busy lass).    

I g0ggled what 2Tbs converts to in grams and whilst it depends on what ingredient you are weighing, if we took a 'ball park' weight of 14g for preserves, then there is very nearly 3 Tbs in each jar.  I don't think I would be in danger of 'over jamming' the cake with an extra tablespoon, would I?

Greying X

kayannie

GP - I'll post recipe later today ( on bus to next town at mo). No chance of over jamming, I always add extra for more flavour.
KA x

kayannie

GP - Recipe for marmalade fruit loaf, slightly adapted as it was in a 'Magimix Cake Book' & I've never owned one

Ingredients:
7 oz (200g) SR flour
4 oz (100g) soft brown sugar (I have used gran sugar sometimes)
1 teaspoon mixed spice (I like to use a bit more)
4 oz (100g) butter or marg
2 eggs
2 heaped tablespoons marmalade
4 oz (100g) dried fruit
A splosh of milk

Method 
Beat eggs, marg, sugar 
Mix in flour & spice & dried fruit
Add marmalade & stir or beat in well
Add a splosh of milk if mix seems a bit dry
Sprinkle a bit of sugar over too if cake before putting in oven

Whether marmalade is obvious depends on the make. If fine cut, you'd hardly know it was there but if thick cut, it's more obvious.

Put in lined loaf tin
Oven temp gas 4, 350°F, 175°C
Recipe says bake an hour but I bake for 50 minutes at a slightly cooler temperature, I think my oven is on the hot side.

Photo of the half cake in cake tin!

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks kayannie - that is super kind of you 😁And it looks scrummy - just the sort of cake for a slice at elevenses!  Although maybe with my 'alcohol infused' marmalade*, it better not venture into LG's lunchbox 🤣 And I'm with you on the mixed spice - I like adding it to a 'conventional' fruit cake too 😁

So I've been to our MrT - not a place I like - and managed to get a pair of PE trainers for LG.  They were double the price of the ones we've been seeing all summer long in the outlet store 🙄 and are pretty much identical 🙄 Note to self, 'buy when you see' and ask LG if they like them after.  Unless, of course, buying from that silly sporting goods store (why would I?) that doesn't do refunds 😡I also bought 2 packs of everyday socks - slightly longer as we go into winter.  They are absolutely identical packs - apart from how they have been packaged, one went through the till at £6 the other at £5 - despite them both being marked up at £6 🙄  I figured if I complained, they would adjust it to go through as £6 each, so I was satisfied with my £5.50 each........ 😉  I did also buy a couple of notepads to make notes of important things, like self-catering ingredient lists!  But excuse me, when did reporter's notepads get so dear????  MrT wanted £1.25 for a 160 page pad.  I ended up plumping for 2 x A5 140 page pads (book style) for 60p ea.  I miss W1lkos.........  only the pads will be added to my non-food budget, as the clothes for LG come out of the CHB.  

I've pegged out a workwear wash, a whites wash and a school wear wash, as today, is the best drying day (and it's not brilliant), forecast for the next couple of days, so I didn't want to get behind.  At least if I can get today's loads more or less dry, I'm on target to get everyone dressed come Monday morning.  If I can get the workwear hot wash done tomorrow, (less of a drying window, potentially), I shall be up to date.  

Tea tonight will probably be wraps.  I have some rice in the freezer, so I shall combine that with a bit of HM tommie veg sauce and have 'dirtyish rice', use some of the lettuce, and I got some qu0rn nuggets on offer in MrS, so we can use those too.  I did look in MrT to see if they had any 'drizzling nozzles' to put in a bottle that you then fill with oil, and I couldn't see any (tbf a member of staff was trying to stock shelves on that aisle, and I couldn't see everything, but I didn't see any), maybe a specialist kitchen shop would be a better bet - but what was also interesting, because I did purposely go to have a look, was that MrT don't stock small bottles of olive oil in either their own brand or any other brand they stock.  I know the cost per ml is more, but some folk just need small quantities, I do think it was a shame, and I was glad I'd spotted the 'on offer' bottles in MrS.  In our MrT's defence - although it is a dreadful shop - I did notice that they had made a slight effort to have one or two of the 'world foods' that are currently on offer - in stock, on the shelf, in store.  A minor miracle, and the first time in a long time I have seen the items stocked.  

Thanks for all your hard work typing out the recipe for us kayannie - mucho appreciated!  

Ta for popping by.  

Greying X

* I would query whether any alcohol has been within 50 paces of this marmalade, but don't want to give the lunchbox 'polis' anything to gripe over......... 😉

edinburgher

@kayannie - thank you for the recipe - sounds scrumptious! 🤤

badmemory

I am being irritated by cooking oil at the moment.  I don't like the taste of olive oil, I know I am weird, so I use vegetable oil.  Now they have made all the bottles fully recycleable they have changed the tops so they are fully open instead of having a narrower top.  I am finding it quite hard to restrct the amount I am using so have resorted to refilling an original bottle.  I totally agree with making the whole bottle able to be recycled - but why the change??

Greying_Pilgrim

I don't think you're weird not liking the taste of olive oil.  Not everyone likes olives (I prefer black olives over green, personally).  Perhaps with the bottle changes, for 'green' reasons, the pouring spouts will make a come back into use/availability?  Unless of course there is profit in us all using to much of a product each time we use it.................

After overnight rain, we've a dry and sunny start.  Workwear wash is on and I'll peg it out just now.  Whether it gets part dry remains to be seen what the weather gods have in store for us.  We definitely had a drying day yesterday with only one momentary shower, which meant everything came in dry - contrary to what was forecast.  

I'm thinking of doing pizza and wedges or chips for tea.  We might have soup for lunch - depending on how dreich it gets.  

The weather forecast for tomorrow isn't very good, although we could get most of our 'heritage' visit done before the poor weather really sets in.  There is supposed to be tea and biscuits at the end - but the guided tour is supposed to take 2 hrs, and it overarches lunchtime. So we'll have to take snap of some description, and maybe our insulated cups.  We may end up having a car picnic if the weather performs as predicted.  If DH and LG weren't so set in their ways, we could have a brunch before we go, but that rarely gets a 'YAY' from my fam.  

It could be a NSD for me today.  

Um, can't add anything else MSE at the mo.  

Ta for popping by.  Greying X

rtandon27

@Greying_Pilgrim - I'm having a chuckle about the lack of uptake on the brunch.  We are going on our guided tour this afternoon and OH has already said that under no circumstances will he have the desire to eat out.  He wants to nosh at home and be spared the need to do anything other than a take-away coffee.  He even likes the idea of coffee in a flask rather than that fancy frothy stuff!  A spendthrift he is not 🤣

Sunshine_girl2

I'm off on my heritage tour of a church that is never open , wanted to see it for many years . Have a good weekend GP .