A Cookery Chain

I made elderflower cordial; I was planning to make elderflower and rose cordial, but the scented roses from the cemetery were no longer anywhere to be found, and even the specific bush by a specific grave that I had once used on a later occasion was still there, but bizarrely was no longer scented (lack of rain?) So I picked extra heads to make the quantity up to thirty for the non-rose recipe.

Then I subsequently used the citrus slices to make a few jars of sweet orange marmalade, having remembered previous doomed attempts at not wasting them! And I used the final partial jar of marmalade to make some marmalade buns, which are basically rock buns with marmalade stirred into them in place of most of the sugar. I also put some of my last batch of home-made marmalade on them afterwards as a topping, as the open jar has been sitting around taking up space in the fridge for a very long time. I still haven't quite managed to finish it up, as it was cut extremely chunky and I could only balance a few lumps on the top of each bun :-p

Song of the Musketeers (Korol' i Shut)

A filk/translation of the ballad that has nothing whatsoever to do with the 'Soviet Musketeers' film, but which has a very catchy chorus that went round and round in my head while I was cycling until it had practically translated itself ;-)
And after that, of course, I had to put sweat and tears into actually translating the verses to go with it...

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