Oh Gus what a bluddy nuisance
Olive oil cake?
Oh Gus what a bluddy nuisance
Olive oil cake?
To be honest, I wasnât planning on baking today; and there is a shop 2 mins walk away, and I have enough butter for toast and things: Iâm just sulking because it seems like as good a way as any of spending a Saturday morning.
First World Problem, really.
I have brioche proving here
I managed to lay my paws on extra strong Canadian flour and today is the day to play with it
Brioche rolls for stuffing with sossiges and salad red cabbage slaw for dinner in the hovel
I might even make a quick BBQ chutney/sauce
I have made smoked mackerel pâtÊ, which is very good on toast.
With butter.
You do know that you can freeze butter so that there is always some in your house for crises, donât you?
Oh yes. I froze me butter stash for the Wall of Cake, for example. This isnât a crisis, this is a âpaying for the bloody stuff and leaving it in the shop because their poxy self-service till ate my last shreds of sanityâ bout of irritation ;- ) You know the sort of thing, Iâm sure.
I have just hadda dizzy aster
Me dried yeast is out of date
And I have no fresh
I have hurled my rolls at the oven in vague hopes of edible results
I will start some in a jug and use it for a second lot
I donât tend to believe the dates. Just use a tiny bit more than you would have done according to the recipe if it were in date. Good luck.
I just checked the oven
Rolls look good
Rescuers of dizzy asters R us
My setting the out of date yeast to foam and adding it with some more flour seems to have done the trick
Youâll probably be fine, I successfully made bread with sachets that were a year past the allegedly âbest beforeâ date. Itâs pretty well inert until it gets used, so canât really go off.
ETA
Thereâs a lot to be said for bulk buying. I heartily endorse this stuff, as I believe do the Fishly-Dunnocks:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00A79CENA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Got three in September 2018 - Iâm still only halfway through the third tin! (A few of the reviews complain that the bread tastes âyeastyâ. Rather the point, IMOâŚ)
And as do I, having used some of the F-DâsâŚ
Oooooooo
I usually have fresh yeast from the Polish shop but they had none yesterday
The Bull will be ordered to acquire some of that yeast to have in reserve
I keep it in the fridge. It seems happy enough at present, and I doubt I will have used it up before March this year, which is the use by date on the tin.
Havenât looked at the date on mine. No problems sixteen months onâŚ
And Flump
Have done 9,500 steps so far
Late Lunch was taken atta Pub
I had Venison Scotch Egg, wiv Garlic Pickle
Bluddy Lovely
We walked to St Mary Radcliffe which was fabulous. Havenât been for more than 30 years.
DiL has never been to Bristol, & is most impressed.
Well worth a visit, Armers.
Carinthia.xx
I am back from week 2 of the Sausage & Mash Festival (every pub should have one, Iâve decided), feeling somewhat stuffed. Some new flavours this week too.
OMCB & I also tried this and rather enjoyed itâŚ
St Mary Redcliffe was âthe fairest parish church in this our landâ according to Elizabeth I, and that was when it didnât have all its spire.
Which pub, BTW?
I have only ever been to Bristol once. It was in 1984 and was the first time I met my (then future) mother-in-law who, at the end of the visit, said to TFD âI hope you wonât do anything stupid darling. like marrying herâ.
He married me a month later, without telling her. She never forgave him.