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:frow :frow Hi abifae, I was always told that the curds that are left, after you strain off the clarified unsalted butter, are mostly pure cholesterol. This is why you discard them. Personally I never use them for that reason! :D Hattie

:frow :frow Hi ofg, On the subject of the River Thames freezing I thought you might be interested in this site, It was traditional to hold a Frost Fair on the ice. http://thames.me.uk/s00051.htm It doesn't freeze any more --I think the last time it did was in Victorian times. Hattie

Hi ofg :frow :frow The UK has come to a virtual halt -- we are rather pathetic over here when it gets very cold or very hot.......!! :th :idunno Schools are mostly closed, we have nearly used up all the salt & grit for treating the roads & a lot of the supermarkets are sold out because...

:frow :frow I came across this reply to a poster. I just wish I could come up with something as witty as this.....!! :lol: I thought this quote was very interesting! I found it on: http://www.any-body.org/ QUOTE Recently, in a large French city, a poster featuring a...

:frow :frow How about emailing him with a link to this thread -- just to let him know what we think about his policy....???? Hattie

:frow :frow Yup! you are right -- we get a lot of your WA apples over here in the UK, also cherries when in season. Great for us -- I look out for them! :weee Hattie

:frow :frow Mmmmm!! I have lots of nettle soup, especially in the Spring. Later in the year I cook fish (salmon & trout) on a bed of nettles on my BBQ, using Trimmings from my apple trees as the fuel. I also cook a whole leg or shoulder of lamb, speared with garlic & rosemary the same way...

:frow :frow Hi there Paul, I enjoyed the video a lot -- especially as I have a lot of nettles in part of my garden here in the UK.........!! :lol: I also loved your link to your article on sour-dough pancakes (what we over here in the UK call drop-scones). I laughed a lot at your...

:frow :frow What a great gift for your son Wifezilla -- will you show us a photo of a finished one? Are you making more for other soldiers? Once, many years ago, I had a boyfriend who loved to play chess. I was deeply into very fine canvas embroidery at the time ( I travelled abroad all the...

:frow :frow Yikes! :smack Sorry somehow I left something off the end Henrietta. http://www.jessica-tromp.nl/ Sorry about that! :old :idunno I have corrected it on my post now. Hattie

:frow NurseNettie :frow This US site might be of help to you as it is full of videos on knitting technique. It was to me. :D http://www.knittinghelp.com/ I'm a slow learner & I tend to forget so much.......!!! :old :idunno Hattie

:frow Hi there! :frow Happy New Year everyone! I think you would all be fascinated by this site. It is a Dutch site -- but if you PRESS THE BOX labelled ENGLISH SITE in the left-hand column all will be understandable. http://www.jessica-tromp.nl/ It is FULL of free patterns & charts, tips...

:frow :frow I suddenly remembered some relations from my childhood remarking on how they had made lye (as the first step to making soap) during the German occupation of the island of Jersey during World War II. So I did a bit of research & came up with this...

:frow :frow I have been looking into them for a year or so. I was hoping to build a simple one last summer but it hardly stopped raining here in the UK.. :barnie I just came across these: http://www.leftoverqueen.com/forum/index.php/topic,1366.0.html...

:frow :frow I have just come across this Vegan Chocolate Cake -- my mother used to make one very like it during the war & I made them for customers who didn't eat eggs when I had my restaurant. I used to serve it as a desert with raspberries or other fresh/frozen fruit...

:frow Hi buckeye lady :frow Try this UK site as it has a good selection of new & old recipes: http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/christmas.html http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/vegetarian/vegetarian-christmas/...

:frow :frow Hi there! Virtually everywhere in the UK has had some snow already. I'm in the south, not far from Oxford & we woke up yesterday morning to about 4" of white-stuff. The temperature never rose higher than -3*C yesterday & now at 5.45am UK time it is -7*C. It is still very dark so I...

:frow :frow Hi ORChick, Thank you so much for posting this recipe. It bought back many memories for me. I can remember when I made my first batch (about 35 years ago), they all fell apart too. I found that making them well ahead of time & chilling them made a lot of difference. I used to...

:frow Oh! ORChick & Farmer Denise You have bought back so many memories Of wonderful comfoting meals I ate in Germany & Austria. I love the dumplings there -- all kinds (strange because I dislike the English ones, made with suet, so heavy we used to call them "Sinkers" when I was a child). My...

:frow "Silent Spring" was published in 1962 -- I remember it well! :old Hattie