I'll check out the market stalls next time I'm in the city Verdun, you used to be able to buy them there, don't know if you still can ... apparently the recipe is a traditional Norfolk one - is your baker an East Anglian?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For you Verdun - courtesy of Shaneystar who had the recipe in a Norfolk Cookbook
Nelson Slices 1lb Stale bread 3oz Sultanas 3oz Raisins 4oz Brown sugar Half a teaspoon nutmeg grated rind of half a lemon 2 tablespoons orange marmalade 3oz butter melted 1 Egg beaten 1 Tablespoon dark rum Soak the bread in water for an hour.Squeeze out the water and break up the bread and mush it up until creamy.Stir in the rest of the ingredients and beat it well together. Turn into a buttered dish and bake for 30 -40 mins Serve hot with with sugar dredged over or with ,cream, custard or ice cream...or cold as a cake. Of course if you are making it for a lot of people you would have to alter the recipe accordingly. Plenty of rum is the secret!
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Love Monty - and those gorgeous dogs of his. Just to add to the "big dog trampling all over everything thread"; when my German Shepherd was a puppy, she absolutely destroyed everything she trampled on. It got to a point where I had to try and make her understand that she could run up and down the garden, but not on my borders.. I guess I was lucky; all I did was use the word 'No" anytime she went on them and led her gently off them by her collar. It didn't take long for her to get it - to the point where she would stand on the grass waiting for me to come out and retrieve her ball from the plants. But then we ended up with dirt tracks where lawn used to be. It's so weird; she seems to run the same path of grass....Still, I can't have it both ways but at least my borders are good now!
I'm becoming oddly addicted to tracking down the novel devices Monty uses. Can't find the tulip spade though as yet. Have to say I don't think it looked new. This is my first post btw.
Hi keenbutgreen, believe me when I tell you I often look at my four-legged bundle of joy and think exactly the same thing Wouldn't be without them though would we
The tulip spade seemed to be broader but shallower than a conventional spade. In his defence, Monty did say a normal spade would do the job. Presumably the shallower blade gives the best depth for planting tulips.
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I'll check out the market stalls next time I'm in the city Verdun, you used to be able to buy them there, don't know if you still can ... apparently the recipe is a traditional Norfolk one - is your baker an East Anglian?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For you Verdun - courtesy of Shaneystar who had the recipe in a Norfolk Cookbook
Nelson Slices
1lb Stale bread
3oz Sultanas
3oz Raisins
4oz Brown sugar
Half a teaspoon nutmeg
grated rind of half a lemon
2 tablespoons orange marmalade
3oz butter melted
1 Egg beaten
1 Tablespoon dark rum
Soak the bread in water for an hour.Squeeze out the water and break up the bread and mush it up until creamy.Stir in the rest of the ingredients and beat it well together.
Turn into a buttered dish and bake for 30 -40 mins
Serve hot with with sugar dredged over or with ,cream, custard or ice cream...or cold as a cake.
Of course if you are making it for a lot of people you would have to alter the recipe accordingly. Plenty of rum is the secret!
Love Monty - and those gorgeous dogs of his. Just to add to the "big dog trampling all over everything thread"; when my German Shepherd was a puppy, she absolutely destroyed everything she trampled on. It got to a point where I had to try and make her understand that she could run up and down the garden, but not on my borders.. I guess I was lucky; all I did was use the word 'No" anytime she went on them and led her gently off them by her collar. It didn't take long for her to get it - to the point where she would stand on the grass waiting for me to come out and retrieve her ball from the plants. But then we ended up with dirt tracks where lawn used to be. It's so weird; she seems to run the same path of grass....Still, I can't have it both ways but at least my borders are good now!
I'm becoming oddly addicted to tracking down the novel devices Monty uses. Can't find the tulip spade though as yet. Have to say I don't think it looked new. This is my first post btw.
Welcome Brancliffe.
Hi keenbutgreen, believe me when I tell you I often look at my four-legged bundle of joy and think exactly the same thing
Wouldn't be without them though would we 
The tulip spade seemed to be broader but shallower than a conventional spade. In his defence, Monty did say a normal spade would do the job. Presumably the shallower blade gives the best depth for planting tulips.