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HELLO FORKERS - April 2020 šŸ£

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    They look very very mouth-watering @Dovefromabove.Ā  What kind of pastry do you use for the pasties?Ā  Ā 

    @Fairygirl - quite a few of my cake recipes use oil instead of butter including Possum's favourite chocolate carrot cake I had to make for birthdays for years.Ā  Glad you have some supplies now.

    No digging here @Liriodendron and we seem to have a natural wildflower meadow now I've stopped OH mowing the bit on the middle.Ā  Sounds like a plan for you tho.

    We have been cleaning - me on dusting and tidying, OH with his bloody Dyson.Ā  I may even steam clean the floors tomorrow but now I need a good long hot shower then dinner.
    VendƩe - 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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2020
    @Liriodendron

    Suffolk RusksĀ 
    8 oz SR flour and 1 level tspn baking powder
    3 oz butter rubbed in
    Add 1 beaten egg and a little milk to combine like a scone dough.Ā 
    Roll out to about an inch
    Cut into rounds with smallest cutter and bake in hot oven for about 10 mins

    Take out of oven ... ease each into two halves by pulling gently and using a fork.Ā 
    Place on baking sheet ā€˜cutā€™ side up and return to hot oven for about 7 mins until crisp and beginning to turn golden.Ā 
    Take out and cool on rack
    Eat with butter and cheese (marmiteā€™s good too)

    A traditional part of every Suffolk farm worker and builderā€™s ā€œFrailā€ aka packed lunch.Ā 

    Also a class in every Suffolk Horticultural Show which has a baking section.Ā 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Obelixx I use Rough Puff, either using our local millā€™s best Pastry Flour or I use white bread flour.Ā 
    I make the pastry the day before and leave it in the fridge overnight so the gluten develops and the pastry is nice and stretchy when making the pasties.Ā 

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





  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Afternoon all. April is here!Ā 
    Your baked goods look delicious Dove.Ā 
    I have some days off coming up so looking forward to making some goodies - I need cake.Ā 
    My garden and I live in South Wales.Ā 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Insurance company have paid up for cancelled holiday.Ā 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2020
    Hurrah! Doughnuts and coffee are on you then šŸ© ā˜•ļøĀ 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    it'll plug the gap of Hubby's zero income for a while
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    How did you get on with your weedy bank today?

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Very satisfied , could be better but the liner from the pond restricts what can be planted there.Ā 
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It appears a man has been arrested this pm for jogging along a closed beach near Les Sables d'Olonne wearing just a t-shirt and not carrying his paper to say who he is and what he was doing.Ā  So that's 3 sins - he'll be done for sexual exhibition as well as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and without his papers.

    Makes you wonder.
    VendƩe - 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
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