I can’t find the list for I am a fool, but I donated £10 + gift aid to my local food bank xI've added a donation column to the wiki, the current total is £130.35 plus 3 food bank donations.
If anyone's made a donation please check if I've included it because I only ran through the slop posts and searched for donation.
If I've missed it please let me know.
Don't start counting my chairs and cotswolds!I never knew how invested I was in what Fraus kitchens look like until these threads.
@Lucky Escape blue cheese and onion tattie scones@Notmycat may I have 'Blue cheese and onion tattie scones' from A Year in 120 Recipes, please?
Is there a bit missing dear heart? Or is it just another godawful recipe?@Lucky Escape blue cheese and onion tattie scones
I think, judging by this thread, they’ve got worse.It will be interesting to arrange the slops by date published - have they always been godawful made up piles of tit or has she got worse/better with time? I’m imagining starting poorly and getting worse.
Oh Jack, what is this? Did your Granny Beatty never show you her fadge?@Lucky Escape blue cheese and onion tattie scones
I’ve just checked again and it’s just a terrible recipe isn’t it. Why can’t she cook a bloody onion?@Lucky Escape blue cheese and onion tattie scones
Thanks! I was so desperate to make it, I did a quick search and found it in the Guardian here.. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...to-tinned-fish-four-easy-recipes-for-lockdown (posted because I know you'll all be desperate to make it too! They look identical to me.
Why the ever living frig would you fry a scone?Okay, here we go.
I had everything in the cupboard apart from sprouts 95p and brie £1.90 - unusually, the website and book versions of the recipe are identical apart from one of them specifying brie rather than any leftover cheese, so that's what I went for.
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First step, finely slice 80g of sprouts. This was 5 sprouts.
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Put flour, bicarb, salt and sprouts into a mixing bowl and make a well (yes this is one of the 'a kind of hole' recipes).
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Eggs and milk into the well.
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The next instruction is to crumble your cheese in. Well, I don't think this is going to crumble...
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I settled for tearing it into small chunks.
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Mix well with a wooden spoon, adding extra flour or water if necessary. Mine went like thick wallpaper paste.
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I added a spoonful of flour and flattened it out to the prescribed 'around 2cm thick'.
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This is one of those rare occasions when Jack does tell you to preheat the oil in the frying pan. She suggests a medium heat for a few minutes each side or until risen and golden. I put it on 5 out of 9 and dropped the first three in for three minutes. Please excuse the straggly bits, it's not easy to cut out scones neatly when there are bits of shredded sprout in the way.
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At three minutes I flipped them and things were looking quite promising.
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The recipe costs the oil at 3p from a £3 per litre bottle, so 10ml if my maths is right. These things drink oil like crazy, I had to put another glug in when I flipped and for the second batch.
The finished product.
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Just one problem - as you may have guessed, they're still raw in the middle.
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In the interests of science, I sliced the top off one and ate it. It tasted of flour and salt. No cheese, no sprouts. Spreading butter on it might have improved it, but only because it would have tasted of butter.
I think if she'd baked these in the oven the traditional way they'd have been been absolutely fine and a solid 3 or even perhaps a 4, but made with the frying pan method they're a definite 1!
Can't find a way to donate cash to our local foodbank, but they have a list of things they're short of on their website, so I will make a suitable donation via their supermarket collection point when I'm in on Saturday.