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Post by goldielox on Dec 1, 2013 12:06:04 GMT
What pastry do you prefer on your mincemeat pies?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2013 17:37:03 GMT
Sweet short crust for me.
I made my Christmas cake yesterday, the house smelt all festive and after 3 hours of cooking I took my half baked cake out of the oven!! I wacked up the heat and cooked it for another hour or so, I'm hoping it won't be dry now. I've fed it already so it won't be through lack of libation.
My oven in this kitchen either under cooks or cremates... soooo very frustrating!! But there is hope that by the summer I will have a new kitchen with a gas cooker.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2013 10:46:45 GMT
Same here for me Norty, on the pastry. And I will admit here that for a few years after my last long term partner left (I suggested she leave) I used to go to her my house before Christmas and make her pastry for her. I don't know what I do right but even my daughter, who is a damned good cook, confesses that I make better pastry than she does. I am just breaking in a brand new range cooker but now I am getting to grips with it I intend to do cakes this weekend. I seem to be in demand as I have 4 to make this year. Then I will make bread. Yum  |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 7, 2013 12:00:10 GMT
My Mum, a first class cook and baker, reckoned the secret of good pastry was cold hands. To this end she would run cold water on her wrists before handling dough or pastry
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 15:36:31 GMT
Same here for me Norty, on the pastry. I am just breaking in a brand new range cooker but now I am getting to grips with it I intend to do cakes this weekend. I seem to be in demand as I have 4 to make this year. Then I will make bread. Yum how'd the baking go? I'm dead jealous of your range cooker......sigh...  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2013 12:20:15 GMT
Absolutely fabulous Norty. I am like a dog with two --- well, ovens!
Having put four oven thermometers in one of the ovens I realised the temperature was within a gnats crotchet all over it, so for the first time ever cooked two christmas cakes together. Both are pretty good. Cakes were looked at half way through and once I a overcome being beaten back by the fumes I was happy
And while they were doing their thing I made a large fish pie in the other oven.
And of course this coming weekend will be the time to get the sprouts on.......
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Post by goldielox on Dec 9, 2013 16:10:35 GMT
Wow! I'm jealous too.
Great oven and can cook!
Mr GL can't open a tin of corn beef!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2013 16:39:02 GMT
He would soon learn to cook if the alternative (as was the case with me at 18) was starvation.
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Post by brynmawr on Dec 9, 2013 19:45:11 GMT
He would soon learn to cook if the alternative (as was the case with me at 18) was starvation. I'm out of the same mould I guess - I'm no cordon bleu chef but I'll never starve for want of a good meal. |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 10, 2013 9:34:52 GMT
I have always been the chef in our household.
Taught by my Mum and leaving home at 21 were major contributions.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 16:00:59 GMT
I taught myself to cook when I left home. Mum wasn't for sharing her kitchen and didn't like anyone messing with her things. My first job was as a live in nanny and I would cook for the family, I would often end up cooking for dinner parties too as my boss would phone from work and say that she'd been delayed and "could I just do the pate, veg and knock up the desert"! Then she would have the bloody cheek to take the credit for it. I miss my range cooker so much from my last house, but I will not be defeated by my oven! ;D So this year and have devised a Xmas meal that means I can cook 2 things on the top shelf and Beef Wellington on the lower one and can be done and dusted within the hour...........I hope.  |
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Post by goldielox on Dec 21, 2013 10:00:12 GMT
This year for the first time, we've dispensed with the whole turkey and got a crown roast.
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Post by scorp on Dec 21, 2013 15:44:08 GMT
I used to do that - in the days when I bothered! It still lasted too long...
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Post by goldielox on Dec 27, 2013 9:56:06 GMT
Dishes all washed up. I've made left over turkey into a lasagne and frozen it. Still got a few boxes of chocs to finish  |
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