Alarm and cookery

My alarm clock has failed to go off for the last three days in a row, with assortedly unfortunate consequences. ( Read more... )

Edit: my alarm clock, re-set as a test for 10am, has just gone off again, precisely as happened yesterday when it was already too late... so I simply have no idea what is happening, other than that I evidently cannot rely on it :-(



I made a 'Bread meringue' from the "120 Ways of using Bread" leaflet; this is basically bread and milk simmered together and then sweetened and enriched with egg yolk and dried fruit, and I suspect it should have been cooked for longer (I note that the Chocolate Bread Pudding took a long time to set). Like many of these 1930s recipes it uses an *unsweetened* meringue topping, i.e. just beaten egg white piled on top of the filling. I was a bit sceptical about this, as I had always assumed that meringue was simply spun-sugar held in shape while it dried out, but in fact it did hold up without any sugar 'skeleton' to give it body. It does not, however, taste of anything to speak of!

I also used the Victory Sponge recipe from "We'll Eat Again" to improvise a raspberry pudding, using windfall apples and some very squishy supermarket raspberries. ( Read more... )