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chelsea.housewife

Hi traciekan, it's me Bernadine Lawrence and I still live on the estate and I'm still creating inexpensive, nutritious meals. Sorry someone pinched your copy, they're very hard to find now and I keep tight hold of mine.
I'm trying to find a publisher for a follow up cook-book I've just completed and am having to do publicity for it myself. Not that easy as I do not have a profile like Jamie Oliver, who's bringing out his book on the subject in the Autumn. If you see me, traciekan, say hello.

Potato Cheesecakes (it's a dessert)
Ingredients:
Pastry Base:
225g/8 oz plain flour
112g/4 oz butter or margarine
3–4 tablespoons cold water
Filling:
112g/4 oz butter or margarine
112g/4 oz sugar
4 eggs, beaten,
112g/4 oz currants or sultanas
450g/1 1b mashed potato
squirt of lemon juice
Method:
Pastry Base:
Rub the butter into the flour - till bread-crumb like. Sprinkle with a little water to make dough. Knead lightly for a few seconds till smooth.
To roll out - sprinkle a little flour on the surface and onto the rolling pin and roll out the dough evenly, turning occasionally. Use to line a flan tin or smaller tins.
Filling:
For the filling – beat the butter and sugar together until creamy. Stir in the eggs and fold in the sultanas, mashed potato and lemon juice.
Spread the mixture onto the pastry base and bake for about 1hour, gas mark 4 (180c) until set and golden brown. Serve hot or cold, with or without cream or ice cream.

nearlynewbie

Jenid just made your spicy potatoes and split peas to go with dosas and fresh coconut chutny. They were absolutely delicious as well as quick and easy!! I am planning to put them straight onto my regular menus.

Any more recipes like that please!!

binsky

Hi

This is an excellent book - I bought mine about a month ago from Amazon (they sell second hand ones too although it's dispatched directly from the owner if you know what I mean).

Hope to see your new book on the shelves soon!!

tesuhoha

Would like to request this is made into a sticky as I'd like to make a lot of these recipes but won't have time if it disappears down the board.

funkyfunkymonkey

I keep a word document that I cut and paste any recipes that I might fancy making.

Then I don't have to remember that I wanted to try something. Sometimes good for a quick browse through for some ideas too.

FFM

Savvy_sewing

chelsea.housewife wrote: »

Hi traciekan, it's me Bernadine Lawrence and I still live on the estate and I'm still creating inexpensive, nutritious meals. Sorry someone pinched your copy, they're very hard to find now and I keep tight hold of mine.
I'm trying to find a publisher for a follow up cook-book I've just completed and am having to do publicity for it myself. Not that easy as I do not have a profile like Jamie Oliver, who's bringing out his book on the subject in the Autumn. If you see me, traciekan, say hello.

Potato Cheesecakes (it's a dessert)
Ingredients:
Pastry Base:
225g/8 oz plain flour
112g/4 oz butter or margarine
3–4 tablespoons cold water
Filling:
112g/4 oz butter or margarine
112g/4 oz sugar
4 eggs, beaten,
112g/4 oz currants or sultanas
450g/1 1b mashed potato
squirt of lemon juice
Method:
Pastry Base:
Rub the butter into the flour - till bread-crumb like. Sprinkle with a little water to make dough. Knead lightly for a few seconds till smooth.
To roll out - sprinkle a little flour on the surface and onto the rolling pin and roll out the dough evenly, turning occasionally. Use to line a flan tin or smaller tins.
Filling:
For the filling – beat the butter and sugar together until creamy. Stir in the eggs and fold in the sultanas, mashed potato and lemon juice.
Spread the mixture onto the pastry base and bake for about 1hour, gas mark 4 (180c) until set and golden brown. Serve hot or cold, with or without cream or ice cream.

Gosh I just logged on to this thread quickly, and cant believe what I just read. I have your book, How to Feed your Family for £4 a day, The Benefit Book, that I bought in about 1989! I still use it a lot of the time. Although my kids are now 15, 19, 19, and 21. I have shown many a mum how to cope with the help of your book. In 1995 when I lost everything due to a messy divorce, I suddenly only had £35 a week to spend for 6 of us, (one being the live in Nanny) and I had had about £100 a week plus to spend originally. So your book was invaluable.
Now I am here on the grocery challenge trying again to get back into the habit of making ends meet.
I would just like to say a big thankyou for your book. Mine is dog eared and yellowing but its used a lot for inspiration and reminders.

netally

Thanks so much for the recipes everyone! I have tried the curry feast, it was so lovely! The Dahl is creamy and coconutty, the potatos were yum and we had so much food left over that I ate it for lunch the next day too! Only problem was that my Koftas went a bit mushy and fell off the sticks. I will probably just make meatball shapes next time.

Had the bean burgers for tea tonight with the wedges. I changed the recipe a little, as I don't have a blender I just mashed the ingredients. I used some fresh coriander I needed to use up and they were lush! I'm going to have to find out how to make homemade garlic mayo too, as I bet the crispy wedges would be lovely with that. :j

thriftmonster

Thanks so much for the "Big Jaffa Cake recipe" - SUPERB

Couple of questions:

Do you make the jelly up to just 1/2 pt

How set was it before you poured it on?

Mine sank in big time - I used 2 jellies for a big flan case and 2 bars of choc - I made both jellies up to 1/2pt - 1st one sank in - 2nd one sank in but sat on the top as well

The family loved it - just want to know about the jelly. This is so planned for cub camp - the kids would love it

angelnikki

The jelly needs to be set and cooled a bit before it's poured on. If you reserve the fruit juice from the tinned mandarins and use that when making the jelly it should set a bit thicker aswell. HTH
Thanks Kimbi for the excellent recipe! :T

Nikki
x

lindab15

Hi traciekan, it's me Bernadine Lawrence and I still live on the estate and I'm still creating inexpensive, nutritious meals. Sorry someone pinched your copy, they're very hard to find now and I keep tight hold of mine.
I'm trying to find a publisher for a follow up cook-book I've just completed and am having to do publicity for it myself. Not that easy as I do not have a profile like Jamie Oliver, who's bringing out his book on the subject in the Autumn. If you see me, traciekan, say hello

OMG - just looked on Amazon and also on ABE books (for out of print copies etc) - talk about hard to get hold of !

See here http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=bernadine+lawrence&sortby=3&sts=t&x=82&y=12 only three copies listed for sale here (that's worldwide) or 4 on amazon, starting from about £22 plus postage !

Chelsea.Housewife - point any prospective publishers there and to this thread for commercial justification in producing your next book !

Good luck - I'll buy it, and I'm sure a goodly number of fellow MSE'rs will, too !