Thursday 21 November 2019

1 Week Eating Local Part 7

 Found my old recipe for biscuits to go with cheese and made a third.  But it should have been made with plain flour and I only had the local Self Raising. So didn't turn out how I remembered from years ago. I also added smoked paprika - not a wise choice as it didn't go very well with the blue cheese!

The original proper recipe is taken from The Penny Pincher Paper from around 1996........

Water Biscuits.(I made just a third of the recipe using 1oz butter)
3oz butter/margarine
5fl oz water
12oz plain flour
½ teaspoon salt.

Melt the butter in water and heat to luke warm. Stir in the flour and salt, then knead until satiny and roll out thinly. Cut into rounds or squares, put on baking tray and prick all over with fork. Bake for 20 minutes 325 F, 160C or Gas 4. Can add black pepper or, cumin or chilli or celery seeds or poppy seeds(or smoked paprika if you're eating them with a plain cheese!)

It was impossible to roll thinly with the SR flour and they didn't puff up so ended up like flavoured pastry!

Dinner........... more sausages, with a baked potato and  another section of the cauliflower and a big spoonful of my home-made red tomato relish.




The rest of the stewed apple.

Conclusion tomorrow.

Sue



18 comments:

  1. Morning Sue - that's a very restrained amount of cheese! I love blue cheese (well, any cheese actually) and could eat loads of it. Your dinner looks good, yummy in fact.

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    1. Had to make the cheese last as long as possible seeings as it was so blinkin' expensive!

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  2. Those meals look delicious. Nothing more local than home made! :-)
    xx

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    1. I must do the biscuits again properly as I remember them being much better

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  3. The biscuits look good, I would love to find some of those penny pincher papers, shame there's nothing like it now.

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    1. The PPP was a good read, we missed it when it stopped

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  4. Gosh, I must man-up, I couldn't eat THAT large a portion of cauliflower even on its own!! I must look to see what local stuff I can find. If I go to Abergwili I have seen local (well, Pembrokeshire) potatoes, local onions, and local Romanescu caulis. Will note down what else they have that is local. On our market we can buy local cheeses as there are a couple of very good Carmarthenshire cheesemakers. If we were shopping in Hay-on-Wye there are LOTS of local fruit and veg, local cider, local artisan bread (at £3 - £4 a loaf!!!), locally made baked things etc. Cooking apples here are still my home-grown ones, and I STILL have some autumn fruiting raspberries . . .

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    1. Very small potato and not very large sausages so I thought I'd better fill up with the cauli!

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  5. Apple, cheese and crackers is a lovely meal, a dollop of your homemade relish added to that would have made it the perfect Ploughman's Lunch.

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  6. Your tomato relish adds a lovely colour to the plate, I bet it tastes good too.

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    1. Yes it cheered up the boring coloured cauliflower and potato.

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  7. Lots of lovely Caulis about at the moment. I love them.

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    1. Me too although now I'm on my own it can be a bit tedious

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  8. So this was the last day....

    And your conclusions, will come tomorrow...

    It's certainly been an interesting week!!!!

    🔥💛🔥

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