Hello From My Englishness

[Cherry_Brandy]

Or sitting on it.

Oh my! A board could need to be started for the feeding frenzy I'd really like to erase that thought.

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

Just missing a bit of butter (on a sad note, this will be my first deployment without my grandma sending me fruit loaf as she passed shortly after I deployed )

aww I've had many a Red Cross parcel in my previous life. Happy to oblige, won't be the same as your grandmas but it'll have good wishes

 

[Ironfan]

aww I've had many a Red Cross parcel in my previous life. Happy to oblige, won't be the same as your grandmas but it'll have good wishes

Thank you Cherry, I'm sure I'll be ok but will bear the offer in mind.

 

[eroticspank]

I used to have a lovely recipe for carrot cake and I'm sure it had raisins and walnuts in it ..... hmmm I'll look, it was nice but not as nice as coffee

I think we need a tea and cake hour on here

http://www.bettyblythe.co.uk/siteimages/large/Tea_and_Cake_Betty_Blythe.jpg

I love Carrot Cake but I am allergic to walnuts so I usually end up making my own because most store bought ones have walnuts. I just use raisins but soak them overnight in spiced rum before adding to the cake.....very good!

I like coffee cake as well, no frosting so not the sugar overload and still very tasty.

ES

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

I love Carrot Cake but I am allergic to walnuts so I usually end up making my own because most store bought ones have walnuts. I just use raisins but soak them overnight in spiced rum before adding to the cake.....very good!

I like coffee cake as well, no frosting so not the sugar overload and still very tasty.

ES

No frosting It's the best bit, along with the coffee and walnuts and sugar and ....

When I make bread and butter pudding I soak my raisins and sultanas in rum over night too, delicious. Hot toddy pudding

 

[Ironfan]

Sorry to read this Ironfan...condolences.

I'm surprised nobody requested cheese with the fruitcake!

Only if it's a nice extra mature cheddar

 

[newrandomperson]

I’ll see your Colin the Caterpillar and raise you one Fudgie the Whale.

Any animal as a foodstuff is welcome in my stomach. It is genuinely the best way to protect all the animals, to make chocolate versions of them instead.

http://www.bettyblythe.co.uk/siteimages/large/Tea_and_Cake_Betty_Blythe.jpg

https://i.gyazo.com/effda801db7e47d55a24e308a61270f3.png

Heaven, though I do think, as this is Lit there should be a naked lady jumping out of it

https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/files/story/2016/04/tea_cake_is_delicious_with_a_nice_cup_of_good_qual_4e93cea04b.JPG

Erotic site my arse, this is pure food porn and I love it. Quite frankly I am mildly aroused looking at all of them, the naked lady would just tip me over the edge.

Just missing a bit of butter (on a sad note, this will be my first deployment without my grandma sending me fruit loaf as she passed shortly after I deployed )

Have a safe deployment sir, I am sorry to hear about your loss.

Not Wensleydale?

I have never had Wenslydale and I really, really want it.

Also as the round ball sport is happening and Scotland are playing I feel it necessary to be astounded that they are not only not loosing, they have scored a goal. And trust me, Scotland are absolutely rubbish at football.

EDIT - Israel, who they are playing against, just equalised. This is more like the Scotland I know.

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

Bread pudding is lovely but bread & butter pudding is nasty stuff. Perhaps bread & butter pudding should be the only dessert allowed so I would lose some weight

I didn't realise they were different, I'll have to look, no idea what mine is, it's an old hand written one It is full of cream and rum soaked fruit though so calorie laden Could make your clothes shrink

 

[Barnaby1960]

Cream tea for the weekend!

https://i2-prod.cornwalllive.com/whats-on/food-drink/article1298536.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/cream-tea.jpg

 

[Daisy_Love]

I’m off out to meet friends and cake is most definitely on the menu
Or maybe that lovely cream tea above
Have a great Saturday, everyone x

 

[Barnaby1960]

I’m off out to meet friends and cake is most definitely on the menu
Or maybe that lovely cream tea above
Have a great Saturday, everyone x

you too Daisy...enjoy!

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Just can't get a rise.

Sorry to intrude into the cakefest, but could someone please point me in the right direction regarding my scones?
I have tried about 4 times to make cheese scones following several different recipes and they always come out like bullets.
I have made sure all ingredients were well in date, used the light fingers technique, threatened them when placing in the oven, all to no avail.

Thanks

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

Sorry to intrude into the cakefest, but could someone please point me in the right direction regarding my scones?
I have tried about 4 times to make cheese scones following several different recipes and they always come out like bullets.
I have made sure all ingredients were well in date, used the light fingers technique, threatened them when placing in the oven, all to no avail.

Thanks

I feel your pain, I been fighting with them for years. I was given a recipe last week and I will go off now and give it a whirl. If they work I'll post, with the tips she told me lol

 

[Todger65]

https://i2-prod.cornwalllive.com/wh...cle1298536.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/cream-tea.jpg

I haven’t had a decent cream tea in years. I used to stay in a B&B in Castleton in Derbyshire, it’s closed now, and across the road was a cafe in someone’s garden. She did the best home made cream tea I’ve ever had washed down with a big mug of tea. The scones, jam and cream were all home made.

 

[Barnaby1960]

I haven’t had a decent cream tea in years. I used to stay in a B&B in Castleton in Derbyshire, it’s closed now, and across the road was a cafe in someone’s garden. She did the best home made cream tea I’ve ever had washed down with a big mug of tea. The scones, jam and cream were all home made.

Happy days!

 

[Barnaby1960]

so...

jam on first or cream on first?

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

jam on first or cream on first?

definitely cream first for me, if it's good old think clotted cream (don't let your imaginations go too wild gents) it's too heavy for the jam and it squishes it. The jam sits better on top in my humble opinion

 

[Barnaby1960]

definitely cream first for me, if it's good old think clotted cream (don't let your imaginations go too wild gents) it's too heavy for the jam and it squishes it. The jam sits better on top in my humble opinion

Sorry Cherry - you've got that all wrong! The jam sinks nicely into the scone and the clotted cream goes on top!

 

[Daisy_Love]

definitely cream first for me, if it's good old think clotted cream (don't let your imaginations go too wild gents) it's too heavy for the jam and it squishes it. The jam sits better on top in my humble opinion

Sorry Cherry - you've got that all wrong! The jam sinks nicely into the scone and the clotted cream goes on top!

Nope, Cherry has it right! Cream first, jam on top

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

Sorry Cherry - you've got that all wrong! The jam sinks nicely into the scone and the clotted cream goes on top!

You are out voted by myself and Daisy

I feel scone wars coming on Scon or scone?

 

[Barnaby1960]

You are out voted by myself and Daisy

I feel scone wars coming on Scon or scone?

Tsk!

Scone of course!

 

[Daisy_Love]

You are out voted by myself and Daisy

I feel scone wars coming on Scon or scone?

I’m Scottish so it’s always going to be ‘scon’ I can’t even say it the English way

 

[Willingtoshare]

I had a similar Jam and cream dilemma when making a Victoria sponge for the first time during lockdown, I went with jam on the bottom. Then I made another and put cream first and preferred the jam on the bottom version for some reason.

 

[Todger65]

I’m Scottish so it’s always going to be ‘scon’ I can’t even say it the English way

I can understand that. I spend several years learning to lip read. In general it is fine unless there was anything covering lips like thick beards or moustaches, but I was surprised that the most difficulty came with accents, and local variations in words like scon and scone

 

[Ironfan]

Barnaby is wise...Cream on top



Scon. Always 'scon'

Right on both counts.

Though depends on whether you're in Devon (cream first) or Cornwall (jam first)