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Old 06-08-2013, 23:18
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Here's one of my favourites at the moment - have adapted it from an old recipe.

It's Peach Cobbler - it's quick, tasty and cheap to make - it also fills you up!

Ingredients for 4 portions
250g drained weight tin of peaches (but you're using the juice)
small amount of sugar to sprinkle on the fruit
4oz self-raising flour
half oz of castor sugar or ordinary
half oz of butter or marg
2 tablespoons milk
1 small egg

Method - Put the peaches and their juice into a shallow oven proof container. In a bowl mix together flour and sugar, rub in the butter, add the egg and then the milk, mix to a soft dough. On a floured surface and with floured hands pat out the dough to half inch thickness and cut into 1 and a half inch diameter round shapes. Put these scone shapes on top of the fruit mixture
then brush them with milk. Bake for approx. 15 minutes on Gas mk 7 not on the top shelf but the next one down until the scones look golden brown. (Check after 10 minutes so you don't overcook.)
Serve with thick custard on the top. This dish is good served either hot or cold.
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Old 06-08-2013, 23:34
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This probably won't get a thumbs-up from cardiologists but it could put some business the way of undertakers.

Sussex Pond Pudding

Cook time: 60min Difficulty: medium Serves: 4

Ingredients:

250g (8 oz) self raising flour
125g (4 oz) chopped fresh beef suet
milk and water
slightly salted butter
soft light brown or caster sugar
2 large lemon

Instructions:
Mix the flour and suet together in a bowl. Make into a dough with milk and water, half and half, about 150ml ( ¼ pt). The dough should be soft, but not too soft to roll out into a large circle. Cut a quarter out of this circle, to be used later as the lid of the pudding. Butter a pudding basin lavishly. It should hold about 1 ½ litres (2 ½ pts). Drop the three quarter circle of pastry into it and press the cut sides together to make a perfect join.

Put about 100g (3 ½ oz) each of butter, cut up, and sugar into the pastry. Prick the lemon (or limes) all over with a larding needle, so that the juices will be able to escape, then put it on to the butter and sugar. Fill the rest of the cavity with equal weights of sugar and butter cut in pieces – at least another 100g, possibly more.

Roll out the pastry that was set aside to make a lid. Lay it on top of the filling, and press the edges together so that the pudding is sealed in completely. Put a piece of foil right over the basin, with a pleat in the middle. Tie it in place with string, and make a string handle over the top so that the pudding can be lifted about easily.

Put a large pan of water on to boil, and lower the pudding into it, the water must be boiling, and it should come halfway, or a little further, up the basin. Cover and leave to boil for 3-4 hours. If the water gets low, replenish it with boiling water.

To serve, put a deep dish over the basin after removing the foil lid, and quickly turn the whole thing upside down, it is a good idea to ease the pudding from the sides of the basin with a knife first. Put on the table immediately.
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Old 07-08-2013, 14:05
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Here's one of my favourites at the moment - have adapted it from an old recipe.

It's Peach Cobbler - it's quick, tasty and cheap to make - it also fills you up!

Ingredients for 4 portions
250g drained weight tin of peaches (but you're using the juice)
small amount of sugar to sprinkle on the fruit
4oz self-raising flour
half oz of castor sugar or ordinary
half oz of butter or marg
2 tablespoons milk
1 small egg

Method - Put the peaches and their juice into a shallow oven proof container. In a bowl mix together flour and sugar, rub in the butter, add the egg and then the milk, mix to a soft dough. On a floured surface and with floured hands pat out the dough to half inch thickness and cut into 1 and a half inch diameter round shapes. Put these scone shapes on top of the fruit mixture
then brush them with milk. Bake for approx. 15 minutes on Gas mk 7 not on the top shelf but the next one down until the scones look golden brown. (Check after 10 minutes so you don't overcook.)
Serve with thick custard on the top. This dish is good served either hot or cold.
Have tried this a few times but have noticed the scones are not soggy the next day if you drain a lot of the peach juice when it's first made.
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Old 07-08-2013, 14:08
goldberry1
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This probably won't get a thumbs-up from cardiologists but it could put some business the way of undertakers.

Sussex Pond Pudding

Cook time: 60min Difficulty: medium Serves: 4

Ingredients:

250g (8 oz) self raising flour
125g (4 oz) chopped fresh beef suet
milk and water
slightly salted butter
soft light brown or caster sugar
2 large lemon

Instructions:
Mix the flour and suet together in a bowl. Make into a dough with milk and water, half and half, about 150ml ( ¼ pt). The dough should be soft, but not too soft to roll out into a large circle. Cut a quarter out of this circle, to be used later as the lid of the pudding. Butter a pudding basin lavishly. It should hold about 1 ½ litres (2 ½ pts). Drop the three quarter circle of pastry into it and press the cut sides together to make a perfect join.

Put about 100g (3 ½ oz) each of butter, cut up, and sugar into the pastry. Prick the lemon (or limes) all over with a larding needle, so that the juices will be able to escape, then put it on to the butter and sugar. Fill the rest of the cavity with equal weights of sugar and butter cut in pieces – at least another 100g, possibly more.

Roll out the pastry that was set aside to make a lid. Lay it on top of the filling, and press the edges together so that the pudding is sealed in completely. Put a piece of foil right over the basin, with a pleat in the middle. Tie it in place with string, and make a string handle over the top so that the pudding can be lifted about easily.

Put a large pan of water on to boil, and lower the pudding into it, the water must be boiling, and it should come halfway, or a little further, up the basin. Cover and leave to boil for 3-4 hours. If the water gets low, replenish it with boiling water.

To serve, put a deep dish over the basin after removing the foil lid, and quickly turn the whole thing upside down, it is a good idea to ease the pudding from the sides of the basin with a knife first. Put on the table immediately.
I'd eat it even if the doctors didn't approve - can go without starters but always like a pudding or dessert afterwards even if I'm being good and it's just fruit and yoghourt.
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