| |||||||
| Season to Taste Recipes and Cooking advice for transforming your crop |
Visit our sponsors for all your gardening and growing needs! |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
11-05-2007, 07:12 PM
| ||||
| ||||
 Millionaire's Shortbread I promised to post this recipe after mentioning that I had been baking some for the family. The recipe is made up from two separate recipes and I multiply it some so that I fill a tray 11 x 15 inches. The shortbread recipe and fudge recipe are adapted from the Cadbury cookbook. Shortbread: (listing the recipe as it stands - I make 4 times the quantity) 25g caster sugar 150g plain flour 125g butter Add the sugar to the flour then rub in the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs. Knead slightly then press into the tin (recipe for 7 inch square tin). Bake at 180C, 350F gas 4 until just coloured (no point putting time here as it varies every time I make it). Could be from 20 - 40 mins depending on size of tin. Leave to cool in the tin. Toffee/fudge layer: (listing the recipe as it stands again - I double it) 125g butter or margarine 125ml condensed milk (don't make the mistake of using evaporated!) 125g caster sugar 40ml golden syrup (Squillions of sugar innit!!) Put everything in a heavy based pan and place over a low heat until the sugar grains disappear, stir occasionally. Once sugar is all dissolved and the mixture is smooth, bring to the boil and cook carefully, stirring continuously so that it doesn't burn, for about 5 minutes (can take longer though). The mixture will turn a caramel/fudge colour, when this happens, pour it over the shortbread in the tin - take care it is very hot!! Chocolate top: Can't give you quantities for this bit as it is totally up to you how much chocolate you like. Leave it to cool then cover with a layer of your favourite chocolate. Just melt your fave over a pot of hot water (don't get water in the chocolate) and pour the meltey goo over the rest in the tin. Wait for it to cool and cut and enjoy, then enjoy more..... repeat till full  Last edited by shirlthegirl43; 15-05-2007 at 02:10 PM. Reason: Adding the source of the basic recipe      |
|
11-05-2007, 07:17 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| mouth wattering sounds nice but how can you wate for it to cool shorly thats the best bit burning your mouth and saying well it dint make that many 
__________________ Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors  Dobby |
|
11-05-2007, 07:23 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| LOL, it doesn't work till it is cool though too gooey to cut up. Also, burning your mouth on hot sugar stuff is no fun at all - it boils at around 210 degrees!!! |
|
11-05-2007, 07:32 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| I stole a slice and planted it earlier. Hoping for a Millionairs Shortbread tree to grow. Gonna do the same with a profiterole as well... But only after I have sampled a few to ensure they can be cultivated.
__________________ Let's go diggin' dirt.... Big silver bird, come land low and slow Cut your engines, cool your wings, You've taken me home... www.honeyjukes.co.uk |
|
11-05-2007, 10:02 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Sounds good! Tell me if it works - I like the idea of an avenue of doughnut palms...
__________________ Tree's Company... |
|
11-05-2007, 10:04 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Thanks for posting this, Shirl - now all I have to do is persuade TP to make some! Or I suppose I could do it myself...
__________________ Tree's Company... |
|
11-05-2007, 10:11 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Quote:
|
|
12-05-2007, 06:52 AM
| ||||
| ||||
| TP who cleans up afterwards? If OH has done a BBQ I clean up, if Ive been cooking he cleans up - think he has the worst job by far, well, having said that, he eats the grub I make tho! Bernie 
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
|
12-05-2007, 08:57 AM
| ||||
| ||||
| I have always tried to stick to the rule that if I cook he cleans and visa versa which in 'Peers speak' seems to mean that if I have cooked he ignores things as long as possible and when I complain he will grumble and halfheartedly load a dishwasher and if I push will do any extra washing up - the sides and surfaces are rarely done.  If he cooks I have to go out and get what he wants to cook (I am rarely told in advance, nor is he always content to use what is available, that said it is safer if I go and shop, if he goes on his own without direct orders he only buys meat and seems to thing that the correct portion is 1lb per person! ) have to put away the ingredients after and clean everything. He will of course deny this vigerously! He seems to think that he does clear up after himself - I will grant that neither of us is very good about being tidy but I have never known anyone for using so many things do do so little!... except perhaps Hazel.... our (his!) daughter..... she is just as bad. |
|
12-05-2007, 11:40 AM
| ||||
| ||||
| We have a mutual understanding here.. I cook, he cleans. This is so ingrained that he bought me a mug which reads... She who cooks, never cleans!!!!! |
|
12-05-2007, 03:29 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| My mum used to make this for us when we were kids although we called it caramel shortbread. Absolutly gorgeous although has to be kept in the fridge in hot weather otherwise it all fuses into one big mess - took a double batch on holiday camping one year and by the time we opened the box it had all merged into one - mind you us kids still set about it with spoons.
__________________ Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now. Which one are you and is it how you want to be? |
|
12-05-2007, 04:15 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Quote:
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
|
12-05-2007, 04:33 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| I met him in a local pub 17 1/2 years ago |
|
12-05-2007, 04:50 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Quote:
Not your OH! the mug! (oops!) big belly laughs! Bernie
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
|
12-05-2007, 04:56 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| LOL. So you spotted the deliberate misunderstanding! He bought it for me at a store called Walgreens in Atlanta when we lived there a couple years ago. Said he just couldn't resist it. We could ask friends over there if they still have them if you like? |
|
12-05-2007, 04:59 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Thanks Shirley - that made me smile, and I needed to after the rotten week Ive had - Its a lovely idea, but a lot of hassle for you! Thanks for the idea though! If I see one over here will buy it as a pressie from OH then explain it to him! LOL! Bernie
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
|
12-05-2007, 05:10 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Sorry to hear you had a rotten week. I have had better one's too, but the sun will shine again no doubt. No trouble to ask friends to look for the mug though if you change your mind. |
|
12-05-2007, 05:30 PM
| ||||
| ||||
| Thanks Shirley. Bernie
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
|
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 11:14 AM.
