Originally Posted by garinda (Post 977450)

You can get easy peasy dumpling mix now, which you just add water to.

Not a bad alternative, if you're not a cack-handed cook.

:D

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 977460)

Wish I had my Gran's recipe for oven-bottom muffins...you just had to pull them open and add butter while still hot! (Delicious with a few rashers in too!)

Originally Posted by katex (Post 979198)

This was my Mum's when she started a recipe book for me:

1lb Brisket of Beef (boiling beef).
1 Carrot
1 Turnip
Cabbage and broccoli, peas, barley, mixed herbs.

Soak peas overnight in boiling water.
Use a large pan, boil your beef for about an hour then add chopped vegetables.

Tablespoonful of barley and about 1/4 lb peas and pinch of mixed herbs.

Boil slowly for about 2 hours, then take meat out and add suet dumplings and boil for half an hour.

Where is the thyme ? Certainly remember those yukky twig bits.


This was the recipe for suet dumplings ... hahaha .. I just guess.

1/4 lbs plain and self-raising flour mixed.
2 ozs flaked suet (Kilverts..:D )
Pinch salt.

Mix with cold water with a knife as though you were making ordinary pastry. Divide into small portions and roll into balls.

Originally Posted by katex (Post 979199)

Yummy. Mum nearly always baked her own bread and muffins. Not in her recipe book, unfortunately... :( What was that navel thingy in the middle all about ?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 979203)

With Joan being celiac, she makes a lot of her own bread cakes etc, she makes a lot at weekends and it does smell good and of course I have to try some, just for research purpose you understand:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

Originally Posted by katex (Post 979218)

No, I reckon Joan is using you as her poison taster, just in case an extra ingredient has slipped in there by accident... :D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 979227)

I might be getting on a bit now, but I always make sure she tastes it first;):D

Originally Posted by katex (Post 979237)

No flies on you,Jaysay..... ;)

It's them tracky bottoms you wear. :)