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finknottle · 01/02/2008 10:56
Am doing an English project at ds1's school in Germany and have now booked the school kitchen to make something typical.
Thought flapjacks easiest but I can't find golden syrup here.
Saw SoupDragon's recipe with condensed milk which would be lovely but can I use honey?
And how much?
I have 2 weeks to try out with the dc at home but need to have foolproof on the Day or shall be mortified if it's a disaster
Did see treacley / molasses stuff but looked more suitable for creosoting (sp?) the shed tbh.
Help!
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Pickie · 01/02/2008 11:01
If you like will ask a German friend this pm and see if she has any tips. Try the dark molesses as it is really lovely, our DC love it on pancakes, through mueslibars ect..
MaryAnnSingleton · 01/02/2008 11:02
maple syrup ?
witchandchips · 01/02/2008 11:02
Delia has a really good recipie for oat crunchie which just uses jumbo oats butter and musovado sugar. - ends up tasting a bit like dime bars yum yum
discoverlife · 01/02/2008 11:03
It doesn't have to be syrup. How about chocolate sauce? or Strawberry with whipped cream?
finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:04
Oh yes please, Pickle!
I need finknottle-proof recipe with quantities... or I could calm down and remember I have 2 weeks to experiment
Maybe we'll do fish & chips instead Be a bit whiffy by the Open Day 24 hrs later though...
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finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:06
You're all right, how on earth will anyone know if it's a variation on Ye Olde Flapjacke Recipe?
Delia's usually reliable for the faint-hearted isn't she?
Thank heavens for the internet!
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MaryAnnSingleton · 01/02/2008 11:07
you could put little marshmallows in,they'd melt and gunge everything together...
discoverlife · 01/02/2008 11:07
Are you after suggestions for something Quinntessentially English then?
How about Strawberry shortcake?
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finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:15
That looks seriously yummy, discoverlife, but far beyond my skills! Not to mention with a group of 11 yr-olds in a school kitchen
Have bookmarked it for the summer when our strawberries ripen. Ds2 can help, he's my sous chef and I think his shortbread is better than mine...
Need Fool-proof Finknottle-proof recipe.
Ooh, yes to little marshmallows, great tip.
Am not usually so weedy Just have visions of snotty primary head (schools share the kitchen) investigating charred smells and appearing as I produce burnt offerings. She and I are not on best of terms...
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discoverlife · 01/02/2008 11:21
You can make Golden Syrup by boiling light brown sugar and watern together. Could you do that at home and use that?
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discoverlife · 01/02/2008 11:22
water I really have to start using the preview button
finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:23
Never occurred to me, yep I'll have a go.
No school here Monday and Tuesday (carnival) so think we'll have a stinks and bangs, er, cookery session
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discoverlife · 01/02/2008 11:24
For the strwaberry shortcakes, Make the bases into tartlet size, ignore the vanilla cream and just fill with a halved strawberry and red jelly.
brimfull · 01/02/2008 11:24
I think you need to fly home and get a crate of golden syrup.
themildmanneredjanitor · 01/02/2008 11:25
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brimfull · 01/02/2008 11:27
mmj-don't you melt the sugar into the butter?
MrsBadger · 01/02/2008 11:28
(in reply to OP, runny honey will be fine)
finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:32
ggirl - a ggirl after my own heart...
tmmj - I've tried that before but they fall to bits.
Disappointing when I tell the dc we'll make something I used to love as a child and they're all excited and ...
bread and butter pudding - "Er, no thanks Mum but it looks lovely" (this to spare my feelings, sob)
rice pudding - ditto
flapjacks - get the picture?
Ingrates. Where's the nearest Military Academy?
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finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:34
Thanks MrsBadger.
Will be testing runny honey with marshmallows on hand for emergency glueing.
And thanks everyone!
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admylin · 01/02/2008 11:35
How about doing chocolate chip cookies (we do the be-ro recipe book ones) and telling them that us Brits make biscuits all year round and not just at Christmas like the Germans?
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finknottle · 01/02/2008 11:41
May well be my Plan B, admylin.
Dr Oetker mix thing Have you ever done one? I was so impressed by my fil making cakes till I found a packet of Oetker in his kitchen...
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admylin · 01/02/2008 11:44
I've done the dr Oetker brownies! Scones with jam and cream would be good but again, like with the flapjack, they just might not 'get it'!
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finknottle · 01/02/2008 12:27
I wondered about scones but there's the problem of them rising... or not. Thought flapjacks easiest.
Tbh, I thought I didn't care whether they "get" them, or not, just wanted to do something and it's always a fun thing rather than just drawing/writing.
Now, you've made me think. Shall def try both on Monday and see which the boys prefer. Bound to be friends around so will have guinea pigs of the wholly German sort who are not bound by filial duty to pretend they like the samples!
I love scones but don't find baking powder as good as self-raising flour, always has a funny aftertaste. Or is it just me?
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admylin · 01/02/2008 14:44
Never noticed an after taste but I do know the flour types can be tricky here. I have been trying to make yorkshires and they never work but they do when I make them in the Uk. It has to be the flour. I have made scones before and they worked.
finknottle · 01/02/2008 15:27
Am crap baker tbh. Rather make a soup any day.
But my yorkshire's are right looverley. Tis the quantity of eggs I think that make it, plus oven temp.
I nearly always use Typ 405 or whatever the bog standard one is.
Never worked the others out
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