A costly bargain
24 July 2022 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI bought a date-expiring 6-pint container of milk from the supermarket (where I had gone to buy a fresh bag of sugar) because it had been reduced to 54p, and I thought I could use it to make various recipes. It wasn't until the next day, when I was cleaning out my receipts, that I discovered I had in fact been charged full price for the milk; I hadn't noticed because I was buying two butters and a giant bag of sugar, and wasn't surprised when the overall bill was nearly ten pounds :-(
So I was a bit cheesed-off that I'd ended up buying an expensive item that was going to be a real challenge to use up before it became completely inedible -- the moral being that you shouldn't buy things that you wouldn't normally consider useful just because they look like bargains! The irony being that one reason why I didn't check my till receipt immediately before leaving was that the 6-pint bottle was so heavy that along with the sugar I was struggling to carry it...
Last time the milk went off before I could use it all. This time I managed to finish it before it went sour by making a rose-flavoured rabbit blancmange and a lemon meringue rice pudding (not really lemony enough for my taste -- it would have been better to grate in the lemon rind, rather than infusing strips in the milk and then straining them out) in addition to the chicken in milk and pork in milk, and a cup of cold chocolate ;-)
(Also, the chicken this time was as successful as the first time I'd tried it, so I think having decent quality free-range chicken pieces really is essential to the dish. As one might expect, really...)
However, I got out my earthenware casserole and my towel-haybox again (and nobly opened the blinds in the bathroom so that the sun could get in and turn it into a greenhouse again, in the name of keeping the yoghurt warm), and used a couple of teaspoons of expensive farmer's-market yoghurt that I happened to have in the fridge for the first time in months -- which of course means that yet more yoghurt is really the last thing that I want right now! -- and it worked. On the second attempt, admittedly; I had to warm it up again. That casserole is so large I couldn't really wrap the towels round its sides in the box...
So I was a bit cheesed-off that I'd ended up buying an expensive item that was going to be a real challenge to use up before it became completely inedible -- the moral being that you shouldn't buy things that you wouldn't normally consider useful just because they look like bargains! The irony being that one reason why I didn't check my till receipt immediately before leaving was that the 6-pint bottle was so heavy that along with the sugar I was struggling to carry it...
Last time the milk went off before I could use it all. This time I managed to finish it before it went sour by making a rose-flavoured rabbit blancmange and a lemon meringue rice pudding (not really lemony enough for my taste -- it would have been better to grate in the lemon rind, rather than infusing strips in the milk and then straining them out) in addition to the chicken in milk and pork in milk, and a cup of cold chocolate ;-)
(Also, the chicken this time was as successful as the first time I'd tried it, so I think having decent quality free-range chicken pieces really is essential to the dish. As one might expect, really...)
However, I got out my earthenware casserole and my towel-haybox again (and nobly opened the blinds in the bathroom so that the sun could get in and turn it into a greenhouse again, in the name of keeping the yoghurt warm), and used a couple of teaspoons of expensive farmer's-market yoghurt that I happened to have in the fridge for the first time in months -- which of course means that yet more yoghurt is really the last thing that I want right now! -- and it worked. On the second attempt, admittedly; I had to warm it up again. That casserole is so large I couldn't really wrap the towels round its sides in the box...