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  • Shropshirelass
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    Sponge cake spread with apricot jam and sprinkled with coconut, and batch of crunchy oat biscuits. Should last us for a few days teatime snacks.
  • VfM4meplse
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    Shropshirelass wrote: »
    Sponge cake spread with apricot jam and sprinkled with coconut, and batch of crunchy oat biscuits. Should last us for a few days teatime snacks.
    Ooh yum! *Vows to do the same with the raspberry jam in the fridge*
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  • katkin
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    Shropshirelass wrote: »
    Sponge cake spread with apricot jam and sprinkled with coconut, and batch of crunchy oat biscuits. Should last us for a few days teatime snacks.

    Your sponge sounds amazing. Coconut on jam looks very professional, never mind tasting amazing.

    I made a quick and easy fruit loaf for hubby's packed lunches. I cut it into 3 to freeze, so it's fairly frugal.

    Usually I do a "tea loaf" but this time I tried the boiled method. It was easier to throw together without steeping the fruit overnight.
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    VfM4meplse wrote: »
    I made a pear crumble today, which went down well.


    Even better is chocolate pear crumble ;)


    Yours


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  • JIL
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    I made some chocolate chip shortbread biscuits. I only had baking margarine in the fridge and whilst edible, it's not as good as real butter.
    I also made 8 bread rolls. They were really good.

    I bought some toasted coconut from the grape tree it's in big shavings, I need to find a recipe that I can use this in. If anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful.
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    JIL wrote: »
    I made some chocolate chip shortbread biscuits. I only had baking margarine in the fridge and whilst edible, it's not as good as real butter.
    I also made 8 bread rolls. They were really good.

    I bought some toasted coconut from the grape tree it's in big shavings, I need to find a recipe that I can use this in. If anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful.
    I'd mix it with nuts and seeds = trail mix. Or just have it in yoghurt, but I probably wouldn't want to bake it if it's already toasted.

    I don't like margarines, but strangely neither do I like buttery biscuits - I actually think marg gives a better (less greasy) result!
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  • DWhite
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    Chocolate chip shortbread sounds like a nice treat, woudn't last long in this house as FIL loves shortbread.
    I'm sitting looking through a Girl Called Jack's website and looking for some nice, simple, healthy recipes to give a go. Also the pinch of nom website as they fit SW a lot more. I'm hoping to combine the two and come up with some nice treats.

    I'm feeling uninspired today, unusually for me as normally my mind is full of baking ideas that I want to give a go!
  • DWhite
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    I actually really want to make a 'soreen' loaf. But I've not found a recipe for it, in my mind it will be quite tricky. So if anyone has ideas or suggestions I'd like that.
  • KeepOnKnitting
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    I am feeling super proud of myself, as I think I have finally cracked bread. I have been trying to bake bread since high school, so almost two decades now. It has always, even with a breadmaker, turned out more like a brick than a loaf. My ex used to have to load the breadmaker, as if I did it we got rubbish bread. I kid you not.

    Today I have a loaf in the over that has actually risen properly. I made one the other day that also rose. I am over the moon. A whole world of home-made bread is now open to me! :D
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  • DWhite
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    Well done KeepOn! Bread has been a challenge for me over the years, I can do 'normal' bread but when I've tried the more complicated stuff it's been very hit and miss and it's easy to get de motivated when it's such a labour of love!



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