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Homebaking.....does anybody else have this problem?
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I do a load of baking, and people come around (not the people I baked for) and before I know it, all my stuff is gone! Take this morning, I made a tray of traditional Cornish Pasties (potato, onion, swede and skirt beef, salt and pepper, knob of butter to keep everything moist) and a Victoria Sandwich sponge cake with my homemade lemon curd and fresh whipped cream to sandwich it together. I have three neighbours come round - ooh those look lovely....how do i say no, you can't have one/a piece?
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mercia,
isn' t that the nice side to your effort, someone appreciating it! :0)
11:39 Tue 23rd Mar 2010
I didn't really explain itvery well, I feel mean if I don't offer, coz they're all on their own...the one guy is 77 and lost his wife just before christmas...and says things like...'my dear wife used to bake'...Miss P as I call her is a sweet old thing, church organist, spinster, cming round for a donation for some charity or what have you...and then Joe tidy's up my garden, prunes my roses and fruit trees, i always pay him, but he has this unfailing ability to turn up when I've baked!
I bake a lot as well: but we have a home policy: if we're baking, always prepare for sharing. There are a number of elderlies in the neighbourhood and it's fun to drop off a goody bag from time-to-time. It takes little effort, but the results can be powerful.
And well done you for baking and not buying ready-made, Fills the home with love!
And well done you for baking and not buying ready-made, Fills the home with love!
But i DO Oiverbotel! I make it a policy that i take them all a hot meal at least once a week, or have them over - I take them scones or cookies...plates of stew and dumplings, jars of jams/pickles/preserves I've made...and they're always invited at 'special' times like christmas and B/days and they come if they've nothing else on...I suppose I'm just being an old moaner, and should make more - it's just lack of time!!
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I'm sorry but there is no answer to it my, late mother who would bake twice a week virtually up to the day she died aged 76 reckoned the kids in the familly were born with a sensor that went off as soon as she took anything out of the oven,not only would they start arriving before things even had a chance to cool but they normally fetched their mates to try their Grannies cakes,with the result that some days the only result from a days baking was a plate fll of crmbs
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