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Freda is (still) nearly walking! Today her high chair arrived. It's like a starship console for babies, complete with cup holder. She enjoys banging things against it. Her next two teeth are coming through, making her a misery.

The front room is partially rebuilt. I scrounged together more screws for the shelf, and it's now holding about 150kg of records.

This Sunday (17th February) is fairly near my birthday, so we'll be down the Pembury from about 7pm. All welcome.

[livejournal.com profile] arkady's soda bread: 400g self-raising flour, 100g margarine, teaspoon salt, 250ml milk or milk/water. Add salt to flour, rub fat into flour, add milk, stir it in mixer till it forms dough, knead dough on floured surface, stick in loaf tin, bake on 200°C for ~40 min (or until risen and you get a hollow knocking sound). Allow to cool until it won't burn your fingers. Eat it, it won't last long enough to get cold. Not too much work, incredibly nice.

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Date: 2008-02-13 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arkady.livejournal.com
I should point out that I didn't actually use a mixer - I just made a well in the fat/flour mix, poured in the milk, then stirred briskly with a fork until it formed a dough.

200°C is 400°F/Gas 6. Instead of baking in a 1lb loaf tin, you can form the mixture into two rounds which will take about 20 minutes to bake.

You could also substitute buttermilk for ordinary milk/milk and water. :-)

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Date: 2008-02-13 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com
Should now be fixed -- and hardly on fire at all.

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Date: 2008-02-13 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendolen.livejournal.com
Is there any reason other than thrift to use icky margarine instead of nice butter?

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Date: 2008-02-13 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com
I use it for preference in baking because it's easier to rub in when it's cold. Those yellow butter-a-like brands don't taste bad, or at least, when you eat cake one large mouthful at once without stopping to consider its merits as a masterchef competition piece it's very good indeed.

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Date: 2008-02-13 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendolen.livejournal.com
Mmm, delicious trans-fats. ;)

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Date: 2008-02-13 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com
Those trans-fats that have a greater volume of free rotation than cis-fats and make it runnier and easier to rub in? That would be the other way round.

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Date: 2008-02-13 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] battlekitty.livejournal.com
Is that this sunday coming up?

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Date: 2008-02-13 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com
I'm sure Jay would appreciate the Bingo card, although it is inexplicably missing "wants a socialized military".

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