The Cooking Thread

[sime42]

I just remembered, my Nana used to bake a 20p coin in the Xmas pudding as well. Good luck for whoever chewed on it I think.

 

Is/was that a thing?

[roboted]

5 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

What on earth? Cheddar?!

About all there was in the way of cheese, transitting the Suez Canal on Chrimbo day.😉

[sime42]

6 minutes ago, peds said:

 

It's a whole thing. Obviously another posh southerner. 

 

A Devoner so obviously even posher!

 

 

[roboted]

2 minutes ago, sime42 said:

I just remembered, my Nana used to bake a 20p coin in the Xmas pudding as well. Good luck for whoever chewed on it I think.

 

Is/was that a thing?

Silver three penny bit or a silver sixpence in my day !

[PeteB]

Chicken and Bacon Carbonnara with Egg Tagliatelle!

[peds]

19 minutes ago, roboted said:

Northerner 😁

 

Oh I know Ted, your culinary perversions announced that already. I meant sime42, his ignorance of the cheese-on-cake habit shouted his origins loud and clear. 

[peds]

21 minutes ago, sime42 said:

I just remembered, my Nana used to bake a 20p coin in the Xmas pudding as well. Good luck for whoever chewed on it I think.

 

Is/was that a thing?

 

Common thing all over the world at various times of the year... before a 20p coin it would have been a sixpence or a thruppence or something. 

 

In France and Spain, I think, there's gateaux de roi (or the Spanish version, which isn't gato del rey), or king cake, which is an almond sponge and pastry tart with coins or a silver token in it, and whoever finds the treasure is king for the day. I forget what time of year.

 

There's almost certainly a version in eastern and northern Europe too, but I don't know the details. 

[roboted]

15 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Common thing all over the world at various times of the year... before a 20p coin it would have been a sixpence or a thruppence or something. 

 

In France and Spain, I think, there's gateaux de roi (or the Spanish version, which isn't gato del rey), or king cake, which is an almond sponge and pastry tart with coins or a silver token in it, and whoever finds the treasure is king for the day. I forget what time of year.

 

There's almost certainly a version in eastern and northern Europe too, but I don't know the details. 

Twenty Shekels but you've got to bargain. 

[openspaceman]

4 hours ago, peds said:

Didn't thaw out all day, -2°C out by us, but after my Mother's Christmas cake, I was still climbing in a T-shirt in the afternoon to top the final three spruce.

I well remember my mate and I felling, skidding, crosscutting and hand stacking pine newsprint with our shirts off in 6" of snow at Hindhead when I was 28 but yesterday after extracting about 6 tonnes and repairing a hose burst I gave up at 14:30 and drove home with my jacket on (vitara heater is a bit lacking). Trouble is I can no longer keep up enough pace to warm myself up. I'll return next week when it is forecast to reach 8C.

[5thelement]

20 hours ago, peds said:

 

Common thing all over the world at various times of the year... before a 20p coin it would have been a sixpence or a thruppence or something. 

 

In France and Spain, I think, there's gateaux de roi (or the Spanish version, which isn't gato del rey), or king cake, which is an almond sponge and pastry tart with coins or a silver token in it, and whoever finds the treasure is king for the day. I forget what time of year.

 

There's almost certainly a version in eastern and northern Europe too, but I don't know the details. 

6th January, supposedly when the kings arrived to greet baby Jesus.

They sell the king cakes in all the shops here and serve it at school dinners for most of January.

I can’t stand it, horrible flaky and heavy pastry tasting of marzipan. 🤮
Imagine the H&S uproar in the UK, putting a chocking hazard in a cake for children.

There are loads of variation to choke on, this one contains a Nemo shaped, tooth breaking, choke hazard. 

Edited Friday at 16:27 by 5thelement