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Hi All

Hope all well with you all today - hangovers excepted -

I was born in Bolton - my Mum always said it was Easter Sunday -

Does anyone know when Easter was in 1945 perchance ?

Cynthia should remember it well..

Seems to have been around the 1st April Renes?? - Does that 'fit' with you??

Dea x

Jan's Site - What my father wrote on Easter Sunday 1 april 1945

Assault on Japanese island began on Easter
It is 8:30 a.m. Easter Sunday morning, April 1, 1945.

Google /Google /Google.....sigh

When I was a kid Mum always said It was Easter Sunday - and she hoped "it" was an Big Easter Egg

But it was Me

Sundays child is ......... Fair of face or full of Grace ???

Yes I am ist April ---- April Fool Day



Wonder I don't have all sorts of complexes !!!!

monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the sabbath day is bonny and blithe, good and gay

Dea x

Just remembered also it was supposed to be in a crypt of a church ( cos of the war ) think the Church was St. Ann

Will have to google

Well then Renes - Bonny (as in 'fat'), Blithe (as in 'indifferent'), Good (as in 'good' - THAT is 'Good'), and Gay (as in 'we know what that means nowadays')

I love you anyway !!! (NOT in the biblical sense') !!


Dea x

I was born on Sunday too.

Definitely Bonny.

Hi LK - I see your 'drunken' fingers have recovered now - How was that 'yummy chocolate ganache' ???

I am drooling at the thought of it !!

Dea x

Bonnie means happy or pretty and Blythe means a carefree spirit or light.
So you are happy and carefree if you are bonnie and blythe.


LK this definition sounds like us

EH

I was not even a 'twinkle' in 1945 thank you very much Fans.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>huffs off.

Good Ho..Got rid of that ra.......erm Cynf for a while..

I am a Saturdays child,and dont I know it...

Friday the 13th - me !!

Say no more !!??

Dea x

Sylvia - yorkshire pudding -- a little while back I switched to Joy of Cooking's version, one of their "Cockaigne" (special favourite) recipes. Yes, a British classic from a classic USAmerican cookbook, it's sad.

Do you happen to have a copy of J of C? If not, I'll bring mine over and copy the recipe for you.

It works spectacularly every time for me now.

I have to say - most of the recipe's I have found involve 4 or more eggs.

I have this old one from my grandma which says 4 oz of plain flour, I egg and half a pint of milk .

I have been using it for donkeys years and it always turns out just right.

Mix it up, let it rest, then pour it into 12 patie tins, well greased. - put on a high heat for about 15 mins.

Dea Xxx

Er....you are going to share that recipe aren't you Janey? We could all do with spectacular results in the Yorkshire pud stakes.


British classics......can't beat 'em.


Off to root some bacon out of the fridge I think.

Found it on line.


Preheat oven to 400°.

The ingredients must be at room temperature when mixed or they will not puff.

7/8 cup flour
1/2 t salt

Make a well in the center, into which pour:

1/2 cup milk

Stir in the milk. Beat until fluffy:

2 eggs

Beat them into the batter. Add:

1/2 cup water

>>> The one I have is different. You combine the half-cup milk and half-cup water to make 1 cup, then add it together to the dry ingredients. Or maybe I've been reading it worng ... I see this way at other sites.

Beat the batter well until large bubbles rise to the surface. You may (mine says *do*, but I usually don't bother and it works fine) permit this to stand covered and refrigerated for 1 hour and then beat it again (mine says *return to room temp* and then beat it again).

Have ready a hot ovenproof dish about 9x12, or hot muffin tins containing about 1/4 inch hot beef drippings or melted butter. (poster of this version says: I never use that much butter, or margarine, for that matter. It has always worked to just have the dish well greased). Pour in the batter. It should be about 5/8 high. Bake the pudding for about 20 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350° and bake it 10-15 minutes longer. Some cooks recommend a 350° oven for 1/2 hour or longer. Serve it at once.

Dea -- I'm not sure about Sylvia, but there's nothing I can do with a recipe that gives measurements in weight, e.g. 4 oz flour. ;)

Flour comes in cups, not ounces -- and liquid in cups, not pints -- over here!

When they're not coming in mls these days, that is.

(We also have a problem with pints/quarts -- commercially, our quarts were Brit, 40 oz, but the US quart is 32 oz. Fortunately, we're all metric now, commercially: milk comes in litres, sour cream and cottage cheese come in 500 ml tubs, etc.)


Oh, and sorry, Cynthia. That Joy of Cooking recipe is for this side of the pond, unless you feel like converting it.

Remember, our cup is 8 oz (by volume, not weight), yours is 10 oz .........

7/8 of our cup is 7 oz by volume
1/2 cup of fluid is 4 oz by volume

There you go!

An egg is an egg. And I think a tsp is a tsp!