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Piglet
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It's fairly widely accepted at the moment - the plummet in oil prices affected Newfoundland, and the fire in Fort McMurray left many Newfoundlanders out of work and coming back home, which has had a really bad effect on the housing market.
If we'd been selling a year or so earlier, we probably would have had no trouble at all. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Well, I went to see the dermatologist this morning - not only is he is a nice guy with a wonderfully dry sense of humour but he also inspired me with some confidence. I had/have to take one tablet before breakfast for today and the next two days and one tablet before bed tonight and for a total of ten days [nights] - plus a cream twice a day after a shower. This is loads better than my GP who was prescribing all sorts. He also charges less than my GP, which was a pleasant surprise.
Tomorrow Herself goes to have some stitches out from something or other to do with when they secured her [or the twins'] placentas - I don't really understand and I deliberately don't enquire as it is none of my business.
Next week the twins have their 14 week assessments, and probably more vaccinations - rather them than me!
And Himself is still taking his tablets for his gastric troubles, which happily seem to have passed and we hope the tablets he's now on will make them a thing of the past.
All in all we're quite a medical household at the moment.
But, and this is the good news, the specialist thinks that dairy products should be fine so I can go back on my twice daily almond milk and I can even eat cheese again!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
But, and this is the good news, the specialist thinks that dairy products should be fine so I can go back on my twice daily almond milk and I can even eat cheese again!
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) I didn't realize you had to cut cheese out, that's awful. As a cheesoholic I'd find that very difficult to cope with. Glad to hear you can resume - there's a chunk of lost time to make up for, you know.
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Piglet
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What Ariel said - no CHEESE???? ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
Glad to hear that's a thing of the past - now go and splash out on the best piece of your favourite sort that you can find!
Obviously, I'd recommend a nice glass of something to go with it, but I know that's not your - er - glass of something. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
eta: would you like a virtual piece of home-made French bread to go with it? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Lothlorien
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My reaction was similar. NO cheese? I would find that extremely impossible if I can use those words together.
Glad things are improving and I find it hard to believe that the dermatologist was cheaper than GP. That must have been a pleasant surprise.
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Ariel
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I’ve signed up for a cheese tasting next month. I believe Barkham Blue may be involved.
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Welease Woderwick
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I am SO jealous! I hope you like it as much as I do, though I think it is a cheese where a little may well be enough.
Now we have to arrange a trip to get more cheese as all that is left is a little cube of Cheddar - but it looks a busy couple of weeks so I'm not sure when we can do it.
One of my new tablets seems to have a diuretic effect on me, I've been peeing like mad the last 2 days and I prefer to blame the tablets rather than anything else.
Herself went to the hospital today to have her stitches out and the Dr got a call that a close relative had died so had to bail so now there is another appointment for tomorrow morning - all a bit of a drag.
Tonight I finished the last of the Harry Potter books so tomorrow I can rejoin the land of the living - I think F H Burnett's The Lost Prince may be next, I've never read it so it will be good to try something new.
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Piglet
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Mmmmmmm - the cheese tasting sounds like fun.
IANAD etc., etc., but I'd imagine that the diuretic effect won't do you any harm at all (except for being a bit of a nuisance) - it's presumably your body getting rid of toxins which aren't doing you any good.
We're still no closer to selling Château Piglet, and the finance monster is looming.
I can't help feeling that until further notice, any lights at the end of the tunnel will be presumed to be attached to an oncoming train.
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Boogie
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I have news!
Bruce is off to Big School on the 10th of November - clever boy 😇
And ....
I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppy! 💕 I'm getting a puppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 💕
Black girl, pure Lab, prospective guide dog Mummy. She arrives on the 15th of November.
Tatze will have a 'mini me' to bring up 😇
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You will like THE LOST PRINCE, if you like Burnett in general. It is the Balkans, and insurrection, and revolution, not as it is, but as it should be.
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Wesley J
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Hey Boogie, ehem... are you getting a puppy, by any chance? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Firenze
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Hey Boogie, ehem... are you getting a puppy, by any chance?
She is, but I'm not sure she's happy about it.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Firenze:
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Hey Boogie, ehem... are you getting a puppy, by any chance?
She is, but I'm not sure she's happy about it.
She's so stereotypically British -- stiff upper lip, not showing her emotions, etc.
I WANT TO SEE PICTURES!!!
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Ariel
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I'm sure she'll have a few pictures on her blog.
I need to think up some ideas for a Halloween bake sale for charity at the end of this week. I have one idea planned but haven't settled on the other yet. Is anyone else making anything for The Night? I promise not to steal your ideas, I'm just interested.
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I'll probably put coins on the bottom of a dish, then pour green jelly over them. If any kids want money, they have to pick them out of the jelly. I do provide wet wipes to clean up.
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Piglet
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As D's niece used to say when she was very little: "Dis ... GUSTING!!!!"
Unlike most Small Persons, she absolutely hated getting mucky - even snow on her boots had to be removed ASAP.
I'm not sure that I could think of anything more imaginative than wee buns or cup-cakes with orange* or black icing.
* I wonder why, when I tried to type the word "orange", it came out as "organ"? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Terrible moment yesterday - I was on my way back from somewhere and was accosted by several of the local littlies who speak little English but are, as kids are, good mimics so when I said mansillai illa [I don't understand] to them they mimicked it back to me with the broadest Merseyside accents - I spent most of my career on in or near Liverpool but didn't realise how much scouse I'd actually picked up!
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Wesley J
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You're the Fab One, dear WW.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Firenze:
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Hey Boogie, ehem... are you getting a puppy, by any chance?
She is, but I'm not sure she's happy about it.
She's so stereotypically British -- stiff upper lip, not showing her emotions, etc.
I WANT TO SEE PICTURES!!!
Pictures soon - I'm booking my train ticket to go and visit her - in Rugby - on the 2nd of November. She'll be five weeks old then 💖
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Pigwidgeon
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Puppy!
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Piglet
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Definitely looking forward to seeing the pictures.
I think autumn might be considering turning into winter here - having been a pleasantly balmy 19° yesterday evening, it's now 6° and beginning to get a tad blustrous, which will probably strip a lot of the remaining leaves from the trees.
Still, it was lovely while it lasted.
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Ariel
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Yes, the leaves were swirling as I went out today, and the car acquired a few while parked, which was quite pleasing.
It's been a day of baking, starting with brack (Irish fruit bread traditionally eaten at Halloween), followed by a sausage and pumpkin casserole. This is quite a good way of using up leftover pumpkin when you can't face any more pie. There's a sundried tomato and parmesan loaf due out of the breadmaker in the not too distant future. And I've cooked three Spanish side dishes to form part of packed lunches for the coming week: spinach with pine nuts, spicy mushrooms with garlic and lemon, and patatas bravas, to go with the spicy chicken that I bought. That should do for the next few days and means I won't have to scrabble around for something to take to work.
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Welease Woderwick
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I don't know what adverts on TV are like over there these days but I have been watching a bit of cricket recently and today I counted ads for 9 different makes of mobile phone! I know India is a massive market with over 1.2 billion people and I also know there are many more manufacturers who choose not to advertise this way but it seems a lot to me.
It seems to me that Samsung are fighting hard to regain their place in the market after the catching fire fiasco, that must have cost them millions!
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Ariel:
It's been a day of baking, starting with brack (Irish fruit bread traditionally eaten at Halloween), followed by a sausage and pumpkin casserole. This is quite a good way of using up leftover pumpkin when you can't face any more pie. There's a sundried tomato and parmesan loaf due out of the breadmaker in the not too distant future. And I've cooked three Spanish side dishes to form part of packed lunches for the coming week: spinach with pine nuts, spicy mushrooms with garlic and lemon, and patatas bravas, to go with the spicy chicken that I bought. That should do for the next few days and means I won't have to scrabble around for something to take to work.
Blimey, Ariel, you've been busy.
Pumpkin pie was going to my suggestion. We usually make it, even though the pumpkins we get over hear are large and watery and canned is pretty hard to get, it's pretty tasty. Also gingerbread bats and the parkin for Bonfire Night needs making ahead of time, though I can't see why you couldn't eat it for Halloween.
In my teenage years I used to make marzipan eyes and severed limbs. It's possible you might not want to go that far
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I made some quiet successful merguine ghosts once. Very easy to make.
I had a fantastic weekend at a posh pub to celebrate my retrement. Lots of good food, and a long walk yesterday in the stunning autumnal Surrey countryside.
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Lothlorien
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I think it must be about time I paid you a visit, Ariel. That list of baking sounds wonderful.
WW, not only does that manufacturer have phones that burst into flames, but down here there has been a big recall of a model of their washing machines. Homes have been burnt, laundries ruined etc. One fix they offered was to cover the wiring with a plastic shopping bag. As if that s satisfactory.
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Piglet
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Crikey - that all sounds rather alarming!
Ariel - ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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We used to make chocolate coffin mousses for Halloween. Seriously delicious.
Er Boogie - we haven't met, but if you need a lift from the station somewhere it's my home town. You could even meet our cats for a change. The Ragdoll thinks she's a dog.
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Boogie
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Er Boogie - we haven't met, but if you need a lift from the station somewhere it's my home town. You could even meet our cats for a change. The Ragdoll thinks she's a dog.
You are very kind but the breeder is picking me up, and I'd love to meet you and your cats - I've always wanted a Ragdoll! I was going to stay over at a travel lodge but Mr Boogs isn't happy to be left with both dogs for two days!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Pumpkin pie was going to my suggestion. We usually make it, even though the pumpkins we get over hear are large and watery and canned is pretty hard to get, it's pretty tasty. Also gingerbread bats and the parkin for Bonfire Night needs making ahead of time, though I can't see why you couldn't eat it for Halloween.
I made a pumpkin pie recently for my autumn-themed cake sale for charity and I have it in mind to make little individual pumpkin pies for this one. I find if I get one of the small pumpkins they work fine. It's the steaming that takes time but it's worth it. There might also be either parkin or a blackberry and cinnamon cake, though if I'm pressed for time I may just fall back on making a sticky ginger cake. It'll be for the office so I'm probably not going to do stuff like the "witch's bag" of jelly with squidgy objects in it that a friend did once for her small boys, which was gratifyingly horrid.
I don't normally cook much - I have phases when I do a lot then phases when I do nothing in the kitchen except extract snacks from it, mostly bread and cheese. Cooking can be a rewarding form of creativity, though, and it gets you away from the computer for a while.
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Afternoon all. Had a wonderful weekend with family & friends. Autumn is a time to get some great colours at Kew Gardens, plus we found out what happened to Sam the Eagle from the Muppets.
Did OK on the pub quiz last night (considering we were just a team of 2) but one a bottle of wine by winning a hoopla competition.
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...plus we found out what happened to Sam the Eagle from the Muppets.
There is a gold-colored eagle on the city hall in Nashua, NH, that bears a very strong resemblance to Sam. Unfortunately, I cannot find an on-line photo.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Pumpkin pie was going to my suggestion. We usually make it, even though the pumpkins we get over hear are large and watery and canned is pretty hard to get, it's pretty tasty. Also gingerbread bats and the parkin for Bonfire Night needs making ahead of time, though I can't see why you couldn't eat it for Halloween.
I made a pumpkin pie recently for my autumn-themed cake sale for charity and I have it in mind to make little individual pumpkin pies for this one. I find if I get one of the small pumpkins they work fine. It's the steaming that takes time but it's worth it. There might also be either parkin or a blackberry and cinnamon cake, though if I'm pressed for time I may just fall back on making a sticky ginger cake. It'll be for the office so I'm probably not going to do stuff like the "witch's bag" of jelly with squidgy objects in it that a friend did once for her small boys, which was gratifyingly horrid.
I don't normally cook much - I have phases when I do a lot then phases when I do nothing in the kitchen except extract snacks from it, mostly bread and cheese. Cooking can be a rewarding form of creativity, though, and it gets you away from the computer for a while.
Re: watery pumpkins. Yes steaming would work. Mum (who is responsible for the pie) bakes them for the same result.
Definitely agree about therapeutic cooking. Extreme chopping and stewing is excellent for warding off the blues.
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... Extreme chopping and stewing ...
The mind boggles.
You're right though - sometimes the chopping process (especially red peppers or mushrooms) can be very therapeutic, and as for that bash with the flat of a knife that you give a garlic clove* to get the skin off ... ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
* I bought a head of garlic the other day at the market, and the cloves were absolutely huge - each one about the size of a medium shallot.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Crikey - that all sounds rather alarming!
Ariel -
Piglet, picture of a very dead burnt out washing machine cane be seen Here. Many more available, all similar.
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Ariel
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You're right though - sometimes the chopping process (especially red peppers or mushrooms) can be very therapeutic, and as for that bash with the flat of a knife that you give a garlic clove* to get the skin off ...
* I bought a head of garlic the other day at the market, and the cloves were absolutely huge - each one about the size of a medium shallot.
Oh you lucky Piglet, you found elephant garlic - this is what I always look for in markets and supermarkets and so rarely find. The miserable little bulbs they sell as standard in shops rarely have decent-size cloves and most are disconcertingly small.
I briefly grew elephant garlic from a single clove in my allotment in the days when I had one - if I get the chance again I'll grow it in a pot.
I have a garlic press, btw. I wouldn't trust myself to bash garlic with the flat of a knife without something skidding and it all going eventfully wrong.
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Piglet, picture of a very dead burnt out washing machine cane be seen Here. Many more available, all similar.
I recently bought a Samsung washing machine, and these stories alarmed me very much. I was relieved to learn that the machines that caught fire were top-loading; mine is front-loading.
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Welease Woderwick
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I agree about BIG Garlic - here it is called Chinese Garlic for some bizarre reason even if it does come from Rajasthan. I buy it by the kilo in the garlic specialist in Ernakulam Market - all he stocks is garlic and the shop smells wonderful!
I place the clove on the worktop, place the flat of a knife over it about 2/3 of the way to the handle and then give it a smart side of the fist directly over the clove - this loosens the skin admirably.
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Ariel
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I'm thinking of making parkin to bring into the office as it seems I have the ingredients to hand. I haven't made this for years and don't have my original recipe so have found some online. I'm aware that what I make will be subject to the exacting scrutiny of two young Northern women who have both told me firmly that the only people who can make proper parkin are their grandmothers.
The crucial question is: do I go for a recipe that involves golden syrup as well as treacle, or just stick with (ho ho) the treacle? I'm quite resigned to mine not being up to scratch by Northern Grandmother Standards but I'd like to feel I'd made an attempt at something reasonably convincing.
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Gods, the last few days before the clocks change are so depressing - leave the house in stygian gloom, leave work after dark. I feel loike a troglodyte. At least next week I'll have some light in the mornings.
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The big garlic cloves are all very well, but when you're only flavouring a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise to dress a potato salad for two people, they're A Bit Much. Having said that, cut in half and kept in cling-film in the fridge, they'll keep until next day (there aren't many days when we can't use a clove of garlic).
Ariel, I saw this on Facebook and thought about your Hallowe'en dilemmas. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Sandemaniac - it's not so much the dark mornings that bother me* (I'm a Piglet Of Leisure at the moment anyway, so it's sort of not an issue), but I do find that I get rather tired just before the clocks go back, as though my body clock is just ready for that extra hour in bed.
Our clocks go back on the first Sunday in November, which this year that falls on the 6th, I've got another week to wait. ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
* Growing up in Orkney, the light mornings didn't last long after the clocks went back anyway, and you just got used to it. The almost complete absence of darkness for a few weeks in the summer more than made up for it.
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Very unusually for me, I have been a Domestic Goddess, in that yesterday I made tomato chutney. I haven't tried it yet, but my goodness it smells amazing. Though I say so myself
We are flying to Germany on Saturday, to stay with my sister, and I'm not entirely sure when exactly their clocks go back, but every time I try to figure out how it will work with us also travelling from an hour earlier than them my brain fries, so I will just wait till we land and then let them tell me what the time is. Hopefully the early start and tiredness from travel will encourage the Elf Lass to sleep plenty (we are lucky that the clock changes have never seemed to affect her - some young kids seem to be thrown out of kilter for weeks!).
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I'm thinking of making parkin to bring into the office as it seems I have the ingredients to hand. I haven't made this for years and don't have my original recipe so have found some online. I'm aware that what I make will be subject to the exacting scrutiny of two young Northern women who have both told me firmly that the only people who can make proper parkin are their grandmothers.
The crucial question is: do I go for a recipe that involves golden syrup as well as treacle, or just stick with (ho ho) the treacle? I'm quite resigned to mine not being up to scratch by Northern Grandmother Standards but I'd like to feel I'd made an attempt at something reasonably convincing.
Don't worry there are at least two types of parkin. There is the Sponge form and the one with . I think [url=https://www.nigella.com/recipes/members/justine-patels-yorkshire-parkin]this recipe may be close to the one I grew up with as it asks you to keep it for a few days (we traditionally kept it for weeks and it was much heavier than the sponge form).
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
Don't worry there are at least two types of parkin. There is the Sponge form and the one with oatmeal. I think this recipe may be close to the one I grew up with as it asks you to keep it for a few days (we traditionally kept it for weeks and it was much heavier than the sponge form).
Sorry hosts. I was too slow to edit and, thought it was a simple mistake until I got back later and realised words were missing as well as the bad coding.
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Ooh, that's interesting. I wouldn't call anything that was a sponge and didn't have oats in it, parkin. Maybe even regionally, there are smaller regional differences.
It's possible I may have to hand in my Yorkshire passport (and be exiled to Lancashire ), but the best and most reliable recipe I've come across is the original 1980s Delia Smith. Sadly I can't lay my hands on it at the moment to see whether it contained both golden syrup and treacle.
Parkin, like Christmas cake, is best eaten with cheese (Wensleydale for preference).
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The Delia Smith parkin recipe uses 4oz golden syrup and 1oz treacle to 6oz oatmeal and 5oz self-raising flour.
I also have a recipe for Granny's Parkin in Margaret da Costa's Four Seasons Cookery Book and that one suggests either black treacle or golden syrup. She researched that chapter from the WI.
My final recipe for parkin comes from Sarah Paston's National Trust book of Christmas and Festive Day Recipes. That one is called Yorkshire Parkin and uses equal quantities of both black treacle and golden syrup (4oz). And that recipe is suggested for bonfire night. The Halloween recipes in that book are Cloutie Dumpling, Gingerbread Husbands, Hallowe'en Devil's Cake, Pumpkin Pie and Soul Cakes.
I own all three books so if you want any of the recipes, pm me or ask me to put them on the recipe thread.
We spent the weekend in Berwick-upon-Tweed, which was lovely and had some reasonable weather other than Sunday afternoon when it rained (and I slept). I travelled up on Friday night and returned on Monday night and would not recommend travelling on sleeper buses with shingles. I haven't had the other tests back to confirm if the original trigger, other than my stressful work place, was a kidney infection, not unconnected to workplace conditions, but I wouldn't recommend travelling with one of them either.
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Parkin, like Christmas cake, is best eaten with cheese (Wensleydale for preference).
Plus of course mice pies. Remove the lid, add Wensleydale, replace lid, eat.
As for Yorkshire Parkin™ treacle has to be 50/50 black and golden. Because that how my mother made it. Mum's Parkin also had more ginger than shop bought. Delicious.
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... mice pies ...
Sorry, Balaam - I wouldn't normally quote anyone's typos, but that was just such a good one ...
I understand some of the wee buggers have got into our old house, which won't be doing its selling potential any good. Would you like some for your pies?
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We're just back from a v. nice lunch of fish and chips at Brewbaker's Restaurant. It's so nice to be somewhere where they know how to do F & C properly.
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Well there's mice cake ... mice sorbet ... mice pudding ... or strawberry tart...
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Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I'll be shopping for ingredients on the way home from work - it won't be parkin as I only have tonight left to make anything for tomorrow, but I'll be doing that another time.
I'm told that Proper Parkin doesn't have golden syrup in it so I'll be looking for a recipe that doesn't
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