Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Have you all done your baking for the freezer for Christmas?
I have just finished doing the mince pies to freeze (more freshly cooked at Christmas), over 4 dozen (some for neighbours), and have eaten a few! Now to do some apple pies to freeze.
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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They look scrumpcious! Seeing you're a Northern Lass do you eat your Christmas cake with apple and cheese like my Nan used to?
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Lesley - Not Christmas cake but we very often ate cheese with our LINCOLNSHIRE PLUM BREAD, which is a very rich delicious fruit loaf. Traditional to eat Cheshire cheese with it, and it goes lovely with the fruity slices. Sometimes apple pies have a cheesy crust too.
Where did your nan live? I guess Christmas cake would, also, taste good with apple and cheese. But probably not OUR cake which has almond and sugar icing.
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We've made some mince pies, some of which disappeared when Simon's friends came for their Christmas dinner last weekend, and some reindeer and snwman cakes when the grandchildren came on Monday. cake or too Much fun!
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Jeane, my cookery genes were inherited from two clever grandmothers, and my own mother ! All brilliant.
I was lucky they were.
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Kath, Nan came from Stainforth, her father worked the Humber Keels and my Great Uncle Fred Schofield was the Author of Humber Kells and Keelmen. He worked on the BBC series The Past Afloat.
Nan moved to Kent when she married my Grandfather, a Durham Miner, and in her latter years worked as a cook at Archers Court School, who kindly allowed the dinner ladies to use their steamers to cook our family Christmas Pud!
Grandad always started his Sunday roast with a plate sized Yorkshire pudding with lashings of thick onion gravy.
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i remember being told as a kid that "oop norf" the tradition was a large yorkshire pudding as a starter as described above.
the other way around with me, we had it with the roast dinner and afters was a cold slice with a blob of jam - called batter pudding in east london.
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Lesley - I have a close friend (who I knew in Lincoln) who is in Stainforth (Doncaster Road) and is soon to move away from her parents little cottage, back to Ipswich.
Interesting about the Humber Keels. I was born in Grimsby, lived there 16 years, and then 16 in Lincoln City, not far from the cathedral. Yes, it is traditional to have a Yorkshire pudding as a separate course before your main course, (so you dont need to eat as much meat). Neighbours of ours in the late 1940s served their puddings before their main - so would fill up on rice pudding before having the meat.
We often had remaining Yorkshire pudding as a dessert, with golden syrup on it, and maybe custard. Lovely !!
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Grandad used to enjoy a pint or three and would often roll home with a unexpected guest for dinner. I remember on one occassion Nan tried to teach him a lesson by cutting a thick slice of bread which she then toasted, painted with gravy browning and carved into the shape of a pork chop. Covered in gravy it looked just like the real thing. Nan's face was a picture when Granadad devored it and declared that it was the tastiest chop he'd had in a long while!
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Lovely story!
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One afternoon Nan had, once again, slaved over a hot stove and Grandad was late. She wrapped his plate in foil, grabbed his knife and fork and ran down the hill to his local placing his dinner on the bar. He looked up, smiled and said" where's the salt and pepper"?
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He obviously had a good sense of humour !
More baking today.... biscuits this time....
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Guest 753- Registered: 23 May 2012
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Not baking as such but I'll be making a chocolate bread and butter pudding for Christmas Day and a white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake for Boxing Day.
Not everyone likes Christmas pudding in our family so these two desserts go down really well.
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I've just made a bread & butter pudding for my mother in law, with sultana's not currents, like my mum used to make.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
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The chocolate bread and butter put sounds lovely ! and the cheesecake !
Gary - I use sultanas too, must make one soon.
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The chocolate bread and butter pudding is a Delia recipe.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/sweet/chocolate-bread-and-butter-pudding.html
I make one change to the original recipe in that I substitute the bread for brioche.
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Thanks, Ian, I will try this !
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Some of you will have got my special Christmas Cake recipe, but for those who haven't, here it is again:
Christmas Cake Recipe
(From Kath's distant cousin Alice North in USA)
Ingredients :
1 cup water, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1 cup brown sugar, lemon juice,
4 large eggs, nuts, 1 bottle Johnnie Walker, 2 cups dried fruit.
Method : Sample the Johnnie Walker to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the whisky again.
To be sure, it really is OK. pour 1 cup of whisky and drink.
Turn on electric mixer. Beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 tsp of sugar. Beat again.
Make sure whisky still OK. Turn off mixerer. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl, chuck in cup of dried fruit.
Mix on the turner. If fruit gets stuck in the beaters, pry loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the whisky to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt. Or something. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven and push cake tin in the fridge. Turn the tin 350 defrees.
Don't forget beat off the .. the turner. Throw the bowl... through the window.
Chk the whisky again.... and go to bed.
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