How many of you guys enjoy baking?
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shakey jake
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im sure some recipes are easy, but so is going to shop im a complete philistein
shakey jake
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I have made scones, rocky road and millionaire shortbread in the past to satisfy my sweet tooth, and also venison wellington and sausage rolls as options for varying how I eat venision.
Only made a couple of cakes, not that keen on doing so.
Only made a couple of cakes, not that keen on doing so.
Morkai's Pies has a ring to it. I can see a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall style market stall venture in the making.
I could certainly be tempted by a hand-raised pork and venison pie with apple jelly at Christmas with a spot of homemade cranberry sauce, possibly laced with a dash of malt whisky.
NewForester
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I was very kindly given some venison a few months ago by a member on here and ended up baking a load of Venison Pies. There were too many to store in my freezer so I gave a good few of them away to our elderly neighbours who were "feeling the pinch"! They enjoyed them that much that they asked for more of anything that I baked and had too much of to store in my freezer. With that I have taken up baking and find it quite relaxing, satisfying and rewarding when I can help others out at the same time. I now find that I am baking at least twice a week, Yesterday it was Cheese and Onion Turnovers, Sausage Rolls and Apple Turnovers, many of which are spoken for already.
I'll get a few photos done and post them shortly.
With that in mind how many of you guys enjoy baking as too?
p.s. The wife even bought me a proper chef's apron!
Edit: I should have added that the wife even loves me baking all of our own bread, both loaves and rolls!
I wonder if there is any correlation between those that like baking and those that like home loading.
(Years ago, I met a recruiter for one of the big pharmaceuticals companies and she mentioned that one of her interview questions for chemists was what their hobbies were. She expected to hear cooking or baking, both involved weighing, mixing and measuring things out, trying different combinations etc. And, indeed, I lived next door to a GlaxoWellcome chemist for a while and he liked baking. In fact he liked baking cakes but not eating them! He would give them to us to eat.)
I hope you're all using copper pans and dishes.
Morkai
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Fosbery Holster
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l remember as a boy in Ireland watching a relative baking soda bread on the hob at the side of an open turf fire, large turf embers were put on the hob on top of which a three legged lidded cast iron skillet was placed with the dough inside turf embers were placed on the lid, then the wait until the soda bread was ready, the heavenly smell of turf and soda bread.
When it was cool enough spread home made butter and home made jam on it, a meal in itself absolute heaven.
Len the dog
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Quite often I will make a raised game pie for when we have friends over on Boxing Day, also occasionally make soda bread (Paul Hollywood’s recipe is a doddle).
That’s about it for my baking but I do at least half of the cooking when I am at home, love being in the kitchen nearly as much as eating the results.
A temporary arrangement. Just for as long as a safari takes, I was thinkingWasn’t it you asking earlier if someone wanted to swap wives
So that's were me granny's teeth went.
Freeforester
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Some recent cherry scones, you don’t ‘need to knead’!
Phil fox man
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pork and wild garlic pie with pepper infused gelitin.with my pc salt and pepper pots
A slice of that with a nice chunk of Wensleydale....
Damn those look good!
I love scones, but can’t for the life of me make decent ones.
What’s your recipe?
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