*Mixed spice *Soft Brown sugar *Oats *Oat Bran *chopped nuts *Raisins *Mixed candied peel *Goats milk
Basically I threw it all into the slow cooker and left it to cook on high heat with the occasional stir. We had it christmas morning with special christmas tea that was all cinnamony.
The two worked well together, it was also just the sort of start we needed as it was quiet cold and we had a hectic five hours of cooking ahead of us!
We were rushing about getting those last few Christmas bits out of the way when we happened to visit the new retial/industrial park in Gloucester – mainly I had to pop into Hobbycraft for a few bits which will no doubt appear on Salaric-Craft. We had an hour and a half left before we needed to leave for a tea party with my husbands elderly aunt and we realised that though we had fed Jean we had forgotten to eat anything ourselves and so we decided a nice meal would be a good idea.
No my favourite food ever is Pizza and there was a Pizza Hut there all shiny and new so we thought we’d go in there.
They sat us down and told us someone would be over shortly. Jeany had colouring crayons and was asking when the food was coming. And then we sat, and sat and sat and watched everybody around us being served and then people who had come in after us were served and still no one came.
I then started trying to attract the waitresses attention but they both seemed to be ignoring me and I started to feel most agrieved and angry. To be fair they seemed woefully under staffed but I was famished and I could smell food and Jean kept asking where her food was and she was all excited.
Then I decided I would go to the counter to order but we checked the time and only had half an hour left – eek! We’d waited for about an hour and now there was not enough time to get the food and eat it before we needed to leave.
I’m afraid I went up and told the girl who had seated us this and she apologiesed and I apologised for walking out but we just did not have any time left. It would appear each waitress thought the other was serving us but that didn’t help us and I am really quiet angry about this.
Anyway we still needed to eat so we jogged over to the Burger King that is in the same suite of retial outlets and ordered food to eat on the way home. But they got the order wronge – we were in such a rush we didn’t notice until we were already on the road.
I thought that with all recipies appearing on here with cloves in them that I had better warn everybody that cloves can be poisonous if consumed in large amounts. We learnt this the hard way last christmas and it is documented in detial on our personal blog if you want to learn more.
Make up a jug of slighlty neat ribina blackcurrent cordial, add this and a carton of orange juice to a large suacepan or wok on a medium to gental heat. Add a cinnamon stick, a cup of demeria sugar, slices of orange and apple, a teaspoon of cloves, some ginger and nutmeg in a muzlin bag (or you could use those mulled wine teabag things from the super market).
Stir and once steaming laddle into heat tollerent wine glasses or mugs depending on how elegant you feel like being!
*1 bottle of red wine *1/2 a carton of orange juice *1 cup of brandy (we’ve been using french brandy) *1 cinnamon stick *1 mug of demara sugar (any sugar will do its just this gives it an extra taste that we like) *1 teaspoon of cloves *1 mixed spices in a muslin bag or a mulled wine sachet from the super markets *1 Apple *1 orange *3 small red chillis
Basically put everything into a large suacepan and gently heat, the fruit should be cut into slices and float on the top. You probably want to add the sugar and stir it in before you add the fruit. Top up with water.
You might want to warn your guests first! Unlike my friend Simon who gave me a glass at his New Year party last year:/
