VOTE! 2010 SAMHUINN/BELTANE RECIPES

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[Mellinda]

All sorts Pie

In my garden I have blackcurrants, white currents, blackberries, rhubarb and apple and pears trees.

This is my recipe for All sorts pie

I large Casserole dish

4 oz of white sugar for pie
I teaspoon of ginger
2 oz of water

(Pastry mix you can buy a packet or make it yourself)

I use SR flour, 3 cups full
3oz margarine
Mix together and make the pastry, roll and then half mixture and put one half to the side will be used for the top of the pie.
Using one half line the dish.
First grease dish with a little margarine

Fruit
I prepare all the fruit chop the apples and pears rhubarb, put in a saucepan and add one cup of water and some of the sugar bring to the boil drain them then put them in the pie dish.
wash the berries add them to the other fruit in the dish.
Sprinkle in the rest of the sugar and ginger

Now use the other half of the pastry for a top. brush the crust with milk and pop into the oven,
Cook on gas mark 5, sorry I use gas so don’t know the setting for electric oven.

Check after 20 minuets, top should be a golden brown if not leave for 5 more minutes

Serve with ice cream or custard or if you are a devil, double cream .


Mellinda

[Nikki 2]

Brambrack buns.

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Brambrack (or otherwise known as Barmbrack) cake is an Irish Halloween/Samhain cake. It traditionally contains objects baked into the cake which are said to forecast the fortune of the receiver.

The items and their significance are traditionally -
A coin - to forecast wealth
A gold ring - to forecast marriage within the year
A piece of cloth - rags to forecast poverty
A thimble - to forecast spinsterhood
A button - to forecast bachelorhood
A matchstick - marital strife.

I have adapted the recipe slightly to make individual buns rather than a large cake. It's a lot easier when it comes to cutting the cake!!! If you prefer a large cake the position of the tokens could be indicated by placing cherries on top perhaps.

Ingredients -

2 1/2 cups dried fruit
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
hot brewed tea
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup marmalade
1/2 tsp groung nutmeg
1 tsp grated orange zest

Method -
Personally I was a little more generous in my choice of tokens - and don't forget this is only a forecast for the coming year! (avoid using anything plastic!)
I sterilized them in a saucepan of boiling, wrapped them each in small amount of greaseproof paper and placed one at the bottom of each bun case.

1. Soak the dried fruit in hot brewed tea for two hours, then drain and gently squeeze out surplus liquid
2. Mix together theflour, cinnamon, nutmeg and bicarb.
3. seperately beat together the egg, sugar, marmalade and zest. Gently fold in the flour mixture.
4. put a good spoon full into large (muffin) bun cases and bake in a preheated oven 160 degrees C for aprox 45 mins.

I think I might make a batch for my son's friends for when they knock on the door this year.

[wyeuro]

mock fish.

mock fish

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kids adore mock fish
(and it’s very quick and stylish for breakfast or lunch)

ingredients (per serve) :
• one small onion
• one small potato
• one egg
• salt and pepper
• pinch of fennel seed
• fennel tops for garnish.
• proper old-fashioned dripping, well-seasoned
• a pinch of magic
utensils:
• fork
• small mixing bowl
• small frying pan
• grater

method:
• grate onion and potato and mix together well with salt, pepper and a pinch of ground fennel seed.
• break egg directly into mixture and stir through.
• heat the dripping in the frying pan, and when it sizzles when you drop a bit in, spoon in half the mixture on one side of the pan, and spread with the back of the spoon, shaping it into the form of a fillet of fish. do the same with the other half on the other side of the pan.
• keep over low heat for about five minutes until golden on one side, turn and fry till the other side is golden too.
• lift onto the plate and sprinkle chopped fennel over them as a garnish.
• serve immediately with a wedge of lemon
serving suggestions:
• for lunch or brunch, serve with tartar sauce, and a salad tossed in a vinaigrette with plenty of garlic. a cool white wine completes the casting of the glamoury .

[Earthwoman]

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