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Cook's Corner
Your fortnightly recipe to
tantalise your taste buds |
Fruit Loaf.
Fruit Mixture
450g (16oz) Dried fruit
175g (6oz) Demerara sugar
1 teacup of strong tea
(Place above in a bowl and leave overnight or as long as possible)
25g (1oz) butter
225g (8oz) S.R flour
1 egg
50g (2oz) walnuts chopped
1 tbsp. caster sugar
Grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 orange
Grease and line a 2lb-loaf tin. Set oven to 160c/ 325 f / gas 3.
Add flour, egg and grated rind to fruit mixture and beat well. Put in tin and level top,
then scatter chopped walnuts on top, then the tbsp of castor sugar. Lastly dot with small
pieces of the butter. Bake for 1-11/2 hours. Cool and wrap. Next day serve with butter.
Cheesy Leeks with Ham
8 Leeks
8 Thin slices cooked Ham
1.5 oz Butter
1.5 oz plain flour
Half pint milk
Quarter pint water, reserved from cooking Leeks
6oz grated cheese
1 tsp made mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash leeks well. Cook in salted boiling water until tender; drain well (keeping quarter
pint water for sauce) Wrap a slice of ham around each leek and place in a hot shallow
buttered ovenproof dish; keep warm. Melt butter in a pan, add flour and cook for 1 min.
Remove from heat and gradually stir in milk and leek stock. Return to heat and stir
constantly until the mixture thickens. Stir in 4oz cheese, mustard and seasoning. Pour
sauce over leeks. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and place dish under hot grill until it
is brown and bubbling. Serve with Wholemeal Bread. Serves 4. |
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QUIZ NIGHT
7 February at the Copeman Centre, Briston
Starts 7:30pm.
Teams of up to four. Price £2.50 per person, includes a Ploughman's supper. Please bring
your own refreshments and nibbles. Proceeds to All Saints Church.
Tickets available from Pete/Jackie 01263 862450 |
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I read this article in the Daily Mail recently:
"Cameras 'Failing to save lives'
Police in Canada found that after eight years of scrapping speed cameras the road death
toll fell and has been falling ever since. The experiment in Ontario, Canada's most
populous province, is further proof the cameras on Britain's roads are not necessary to
save lives. When the Conservatives in the province scrapped the cameras in 1995 the death
toll has steadily fallen. An Ontario conservative spokesman said a review of speed cameras
had shown they had not made roads safer. Speed cameras had no effect on drunk drivers,
tailgaters, unsafe lane changes, sudden stoppers or vehicles with serious mechanical
defects. These are the biggest killers on Ontario roads and only Officers on patrol stop
this. In the province there was an outcry after it was discovered that the cameras,
introduced by the Left-wing New Democratic Party, generated £8.5 million a year. Public
anger about this sum helped the Conservatives win the 1995 election."
Do they work, or are they just a way of raising more revenue from the motorist? J.M.
Sheringham |
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