Apple shape and baked beans

I had a sudden craving for sausages and baked beans after watching Sims help themselves to "franks 'n beans" :-D

And thanks to half a tin of tomatoes left over in the fridge and some crab eye beans I'd frozen in their cooking water, about five hours later I did in fact achieve a reasonable facsimile of the tinned article, although I had to add an extra teaspoon of treacle and half-teaspoon of salt at the end to get it to taste right (demonstrating all the claims about baked beans being high in sugar and salt!)( Read more... )

I also made an Apple Shape from my 1930s cookery leaflet (under the Cold Sweets heading). It is basically simply cooking apples boiled up with sugar and spices into what amounts in practice to a dish of apple marmalade; 2lb of sugar to 3lb of apples boiled for a measured 50 minutes, with a muslin bag of cinnamon, cloves and lemon rind.

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