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Recipes
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:03PM
<HTML>well, not so much actual recipes per se, more a place to put them.
oh, go on. Start with Topple Pie.
Take some plain chocolate hobnobs, and ginger biscuits. Crush together with a little melted butter to make a base.
stew some apples with a bit of sugar. Place on top of biscuit base.
heat 1 tin (unopened) condensed milk in a pan of boiling water for ages until it goes like toffee (rob and others can no doubt supply more details. DO NOT LET THE PAN BOIL DRY. Unless you like your kitchen covered with sticky toffee.
Let the tin cool down. Please. It will be very very hot. I've still got the scars.
Open tin, pour contents (ok, scrape contents) over the apple mixture.
Top with whipped cream, and crumbled Flake.
Invite Ros and Rob round, and eat.</HTML>
oh, go on. Start with Topple Pie.
Take some plain chocolate hobnobs, and ginger biscuits. Crush together with a little melted butter to make a base.
stew some apples with a bit of sugar. Place on top of biscuit base.
heat 1 tin (unopened) condensed milk in a pan of boiling water for ages until it goes like toffee (rob and others can no doubt supply more details. DO NOT LET THE PAN BOIL DRY. Unless you like your kitchen covered with sticky toffee.
Let the tin cool down. Please. It will be very very hot. I've still got the scars.
Open tin, pour contents (ok, scrape contents) over the apple mixture.
Top with whipped cream, and crumbled Flake.
Invite Ros and Rob round, and eat.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:13PM
<HTML>Oh, dammit, now we've got two threads. Never mind - that Topple Pie sounds nice...</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:15PM
<HTML>it was either Topple Pie or Apploffee Pie.
We preferred Topple.</HTML>
We preferred Topple.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:16PM
<HTML>So do I, but just one question: how do you actually know the condensed milk has gone like toffee without the benefit of some kind of X-ray vision?</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:23PM
<HTML>errr, just boil it f or long enough...
err, Ros? Rob? Help? It's been a while since I made it..</HTML>
err, Ros? Rob? Help? It's been a while since I made it..</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Ros (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:24PM
<HTML>You leave the condensed milk in the pan for about an hour with the water just simmering gently. Then leave it to cool for a while, and then open it so it oozes out everywhere and makes a fantastically sticky mess. Its as much fun to make as to eat. I prefer the proper Banoffi pie, where you actually use bananas like you are supposed to (not apples Dave, bananas - you know those long curved yellow things)</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:25PM
<HTML>but if you have run out of bananas, apples make a damn fine alternative. Spot of cinnamon in with the stewed apples. Yum.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Ros (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:30PM
<HTML>Speaking of stewed apples, add in a little nutmeg and ground cloves as well as your cinnamon. Marvelous.
DYK, I wish sometimes wish I had a job. That way I could sit and chat and it would be somebody elses work I wasn't doing, but if I sit and chat now its only me that suffers. The washing won't dry, the carpet will not be hoovered and the lounge which still be the horrible mess my brother left it in, and there'd be no biscuits made!</HTML>
DYK, I wish sometimes wish I had a job. That way I could sit and chat and it would be somebody elses work I wasn't doing, but if I sit and chat now its only me that suffers. The washing won't dry, the carpet will not be hoovered and the lounge which still be the horrible mess my brother left it in, and there'd be no biscuits made!</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:50PM
<HTML>You could try being a writer. Then you could work when you felt like it. It suits me down to the ground... it just doesn't pay very well (yet).</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Ros (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:56PM
<HTML>The thing with that is I can't write very well. When defending my A Level Eng Lit essays I've always said that I can read, but I can't write. And can't read that well, I ended up doing a Maths degree.
<Hangs head in shame>
I then became a Maths teacher.
<Hangs head further>
But then I quit my job.
<Big smiles></HTML>
<Hangs head in shame>
I then became a Maths teacher.
<Hangs head further>
But then I quit my job.
<Big smiles></HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 13, 2002 12:57PM
<HTML>Don't blame you. If you're still suffering any after-effects from the teaching profession, I have some dried ffrog pills here.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Rob Johnson (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 02:17PM
<HTML><u>Pancake stuffed with apple pie.</u>
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
1, Cook pancake
2, Cut slice of apple pie
3, Place apple pie in pancake, cover with cream / ice cream to taste
4, Eat
5, Repeat stages 1 -4 until one explodes</HTML>
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
1, Cook pancake
2, Cut slice of apple pie
3, Place apple pie in pancake, cover with cream / ice cream to taste
4, Eat
5, Repeat stages 1 -4 until one explodes</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 02:17PM
<HTML>didn't we have chocolate sauce in there too?
or would that be greedy?</HTML>
or would that be greedy?</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 02:18PM
<HTML>You don't have to write well to be an author.
Look at Jeffrey Archer.</HTML>
Look at Jeffrey Archer.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 02:39PM
<HTML>I'd rather not if you don't mind.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Rob Johnson (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: December 13, 2002 02:50PM
<HTML>Dave: You may be right. Yes it was greedy.
Jon: Fair point. Well presented.</HTML>
Jon: Fair point. Well presented.</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: December 13, 2002 05:33PM
<HTML>Hey, on that condensed milk...here in the states, we have 2 kinds:
Evaporated Milk - anywhere from skim to full fat - no added sugar
Sweetened Condensed - usually full fat (although lighter versions can be found) with a ton of sugar in it. It's pretty thick to start with.
So which one would I use?</HTML>
Evaporated Milk - anywhere from skim to full fat - no added sugar
Sweetened Condensed - usually full fat (although lighter versions can be found) with a ton of sugar in it. It's pretty thick to start with.
So which one would I use?</HTML>
Re: Recipes
Posted by: Rob (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 15, 2002 04:44PM
<HTML>You need the sweetened condensed milk.
It is pretty thick to start with but after boiling it turns into toffee.
Yum ! (All my recipes for desserts involve condensed milk.)</HTML>
It is pretty thick to start with but after boiling it turns into toffee.
Yum ! (All my recipes for desserts involve condensed milk.)</HTML>
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