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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Thanks Liri.   Love trying new cake recipes.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Doing a recipe I haven’t cooked for years today - Delia’s Cincinnati Beef Chili. It’s served with 5 accompaniments - chopped red onion, salty crackers, soured cream, beans and grated cheese. I have slightly changed the recipe plus will replace crackers with some flat breads. Very easy and slow cooks in about 4 hours - ideal for a rainy day. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    MY neighbour gave me a bag of clementines, thinking I wouldn't want to eat all of them I googled clementine cake and came across a Nigella recipe.
    I was dubious about simmering clementines for 2 hours, but it's a really delicious cake and keeps perfectly for several days.
    Just 4 ingredients - clementines, eggs, ground almonds and sugar. So if you have a big enough slice you get 1 of your 5 a day for fruit and another for nuts :) it's a win all round cake!

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oooh yes @Pete.8. We love that clementine cake recipe in this house. 
    Baking today included a whole meal loaf with honey and pumpkinseeds. 
    Very yummy 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'll be making another very soon, it is very good.
    Bread baking days are mondays and thursdays for me, usually sourdough with poppy seeds and a crust like titanium :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I love orange and almond cake but haven't tried it with clementines.

    Currently making marmalade with a mix of navel oranges and pomelos, the only ones I could find with untreated skins.  I did find "sour" oranges in just one SM here but they'd been treated for longer keeping.  Too stupid for words.

    I like the sound of your beef chili AR but I too would replace the crackers with something more palatable.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590
    Nice marmalade @Obelixx can make marmalade with ordinary oranges and lemons. Or could do three fruit marmalade with oranges, lemons and grapefruit. Never thought of the wax that's on them. :)
  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590
    @Dovefromabove for your wholemeal loaf do you mix the flour with white flour? To get a dough to rise like the shop bought ones.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I think the secret for home-made wholemeal bread is to make sure the dough is moist but not soggy and let it have a long, slow rise.   No rushing.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I like my wholemeal bread to be really dense. I make my own but I prefer cranks. My husband calls it prison bread.
    I like to cut it fairly thin not lacy. Then I toast it and let it go almost ( almost is vital) cold. Then butter and tangerine and orange marmalade - food of the goddesses😋
    Not the most complicated recipe.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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