When you'd like to give everyone in your contacts list a present but that would bankrupt you, try this. A recipe for Christmas clove pomanders (and a marmalade-apple tart).
The marmalade-apple tart sounds gorgeous, just the thing for a Christmas afternoon tea, especially if there are dried fruit haters among the guests.
Cloves always remind me of a voyage on XSV Exploit: the cook had made a pot of soup, and all went well until the crew sat down to consume it. Ugh! Yeuch! (and background spluttering noises). Investigation revealed the Bosun had tasted it, deemed it underseasoned, and added a generous helping of 'black pepper'. Yup, you guessed - it was ground cloves!
Oh, well, maybe not! Though my MIL used to put a heaped tablespoon of sugar in her plate of tomato soup 'to give it a bit of taste and take away the sourness'. (We're talking one of the 57 varieties here ...)
The marmalade-apple tart sounds gorgeous, just the thing for a Christmas afternoon tea, especially if there are dried fruit haters among the guests.
Cloves always remind me of a voyage on XSV Exploit: the cook had made a pot of soup, and all went well until the crew sat down to consume it. Ugh! Yeuch! (and background spluttering noises). Investigation revealed the Bosun had tasted it, deemed it underseasoned, and added a generous helping of 'black pepper'. Yup, you guessed - it was ground cloves!
Medicinal soup! I once mistook sugar for salt...
Maybe better than the other way around?
Hmmm. This sugar was supposed to flavour gazpacho.
Oh, well, maybe not! Though my MIL used to put a heaped tablespoon of sugar in her plate of tomato soup 'to give it a bit of taste and take away the sourness'. (We're talking one of the 57 varieties here ...)
😂😂😂 I can picture the look on the faces of his poor victims...
He certainly wasn't flavour of the month!
I empathise. Into that sugared gazpacho, I also blended milky iced coffee which I mistook for another storage bottle of the soup.
Oops! No serendipitous culinary miracles on that one, then?
Irredeemable. The diners flung it over the flower bed.
Beats chucking it over you!
I love the smell of kreteks, they're GORGEOUS. And even worse for you than normal cigarettes, because of course they are. 🙄
Too often what's good at tantalising you is bad for you...
Ooh la la... a writing prompt I can sink my teeth into😘
A timely reminder, thank you!
I'm banking on the oven shortcut!
More than welcome!