Daily Prompt: Happily Ever After “And they lived happily ever after.” Think about this line for a few minutes. Are you living happily ever after? If not, what will it take for you to get there? Yes. It is tempting to state “I hope so” and argue that we can not know what the future holds …
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Bird in the Hand? I could knit you one of those!
Daily Prompt: Cliché Clichés become clichés for a reason. Tell us about the last time a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush for you. I am a Knitter. Knitters come in two varieties: The Product Knitter and The Process Knitter. The Product Knitter Knits for the end product. They may or may …
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2006, a year of change
Daily Prompt: Buffalo Nickel Dig through your couch cushions, your purse, or the floor of your car and look at the year printed on the first coin you find. What were you doing that year? Pause for rummage. I have here a UK 10 pence piece, dated 2006. 10p, small change, 2006, big changes. That year …
Crumpets for Tea
Well, that was interesting. “Interesting” as in “nowhere near as easy as I had expected it to be.” Making the batter was simple and fast – just whisk together the flour, yeast, milk and water. I used a balloon whisk, forgetting that I have a spanking new dough whisk, as yet unused. It took a …
Crumpet, muffin, pikelet and farl recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Life and style | The Guardian
Crumpet, muffin, pikelet and farl recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Life and style | The Guardian. Just for reference, my recipes for yesterday’s Muffins and today’s Crumpets/Pikelets are the same as the ones in this Guardian article, so if you don’t have access to the River Cottage Handbook 3, you can get details here.
Bucket List Baking: Crumpets/Pikelets
When ah were a lass growin’ oop bein’ dragged oop in Sheffield, we called these tea-time treats Pikelets. Since those distant monochrome days of filth and want, I have discovered that most of the known world has Crumpets for tea. Pikelets, according to various sources, are a slightly different beast (but not when ah were …