Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

Do you have a tried and trusted recipe?

Margerite Pattern's; do you know her books?

 

[RoyalChick]

I've just added them as a separate page (never added a page before; so thanks for the prod to try something new ); I hope this is the sort of thing you were looking for. I struggle to see any pattern in them myself, but perhaps others will.

Sadly not - except that Paprika is/was a good bet!

 

[Shadrach]

A couple of hours today. Chilly (it's going to get colder apparently) with some very light drizzle.
I read about other peoples chickens out and about in below freezing temperatures but this lot are obviously a bunch of wimps because as soon as it gets to single figures they head for the coop extension. Maybe it's the damp, maybe the wind, but cold weather chickens they are not.

 

[fuzzi]

A couple of hours today. Chilly (it's going to get colder apparently) with some very light drizzle.
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Love the pose with Tull and Sylph. Mow has turned into a looker, too.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I'll have mine talk to yours, @Shadrach ! They made it through -50c (with windchill) a couple of years ago!

 

[Perris]

Do you have a tried and trusted recipe?

a tip I learned a few years ago and that I've found has big impact for small additional step is to soak the dried fruit overnight before using it, in cold tea (fruit teas work especially well for this), +/- alcohol, so that when it goes into the cake batter it is plump and soft not hard and wrinkly.

 

[RoyalChick]

a tip I learned a few years ago and that I've found has big impact for small additional step is to soak the dried fruit overnight before using it, in cold tea (fruit teas work especially well for this), +/- alcohol, so that when it goes into the cake batter it is plump and soft not hard and wrinkly.

Also, once made, turn it upside down and sink a skewer into the base multiple times, and trickle brandy or rum over it so it gets absorbed into the holes.
Repeat frequently.
Makes the cake very moist.
I think the alcohol probably evaporates because I was allowed to eat it from a very young age.
Mind you, the skewer and pouring the brandy was also my job as a child so maybe my parents weren’t so bothered by the thought of me having a little sip.

 

[Perris]

sink a skewer into the base multiple times, and trickle brandy or rum over it so it gets absorbed into the holes

yes I did that yesterday before wrapping it in foil; opted for some vintage port. I remember some sherry trifles from my childhood that were quite capable of making me tipsy

More generally, continental kids get watered wine from the get-go more or less, and historically it, or 'small beer', were healthier - or at least, less risky - to drink than water, so I don't think a little alcohol does kids any harm.

 

[RoyalChick]

yes I did that yesterday before wrapping it in foil; opted for some vintage port. I remember some sherry trifles from my childhood that were quite capable of making me tipsy

More generally, continental kids get watered wine from the get-go more or less, and historically it, or 'small beer', were healthier - or at least, less risky - to drink than water, so I don't think a little alcohol does kids any harm.

Oh I forgot sherry trifle. Yes you could smell the alcohol in those!

 

[Shadrach]

Margerite Pattern's; do you know her books?

No I don't. I have one cookery book which I rarely look at and that's a book on slow cooker cooking. I used to have a recipe note book but it got lost in the move from Spain.