Your ViewsKeep your e-mails pouring in, it's good to know that there are lots of you out there with views and opinions. To help you work out what is what, are now little icons to help you see biscuit related themes. And now you can see at a glance which are the most contested subjects via this graph (requires Flash 6.0 plugin). Please keep your mails coming in to nicey@nicecupofteaandasitdown.com | If you like, you can use this search thingy to find stuff that matches with any of the icons you pick, or use the fantastic free text search, Yay! | Your e-Mails |
Zoe Healey |
Dear Nicey
How about a poll on the best use of custard? I rather like in it those little fruit flans. In fact I don’t think the flans work without it, so it’s a top usage in my eyes.
Also, custard when frozen is icecream – now there’s a top use. Although that does work better with the old-fashioned type made from eggs and cream than the powdered type!
Dr Z |
Nicey replies: Indeed. Though perhaps a quick straw poll on our newly deployed Custard icon would be pertinent. I tried to think of something clever and in the end settled for a small lump of it. |
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Viv |
Dear Nicey,
I am a devoted fan of your delightful and informative web-site.
Imagine my horror upon landing on your home page to find a globulous and vomit-inducing photograph of custard.
I nearly choked on the M&S Viennese Finger I happened to be enjoying.
Custard is the Devil's own sweet sauce sir, and should not grace the same site as biscuits.
Yours
Disappointed from Sheffield |
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David Blaxill |
Evening, Nicey, I seem to be becoming a regular correspondent, which is a refelction on a brilliant website that gets down to life's real issues.
Don't wish to hog this section, but I had to reply to Alison Debenham to reassure her she is not alone in the marmalade making industry. My wife Sheila and I took over our family marmalade manufacturing concession about ten years ago, when my mother, then aged 80, decided she'd had enough (of slicing up oranges, that is). We are about to go in search of Seville oranges, a quest not so easy in Finchley now as there is only one greengrocer left - last year I ended up paying half as much again for them in Waitrose. We usually make three batches, each using three pounds of fruit - there is always a demand from family & friends as the finished product is so superior to the commercial one. My favourite is Three Fruit, made from a combination of Sevilles, pink grapefruit and lemons, although I can't resist spiking a few jars of Seville with Bell's whiskey (for personal consumption). I have also found a recipe for rum and raisin marmalade, which we may give a try. I think that once you are used to the home made stuff, anything else is just not up to standard. We are also masochistic enough to make our own jams, wine, chutneys, and pickles. So no, Alison, you are not alone, you are not sad, you are helping to preserve a bit of old England, and long may you continue to do so.
Incidentally, a great and simple pudding can be made by making a sandwich of a McVities Jamaica Ginger Cake (that has preferably been left to mature for six months, they improve with age) - filling it with a liberal helping of marmalade of choice, wrap in foil and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Serve with lashings of (Bird's) custard.
And on the subject of custard, Nicey, you are raising an issue which seriously needs addressing. Sales are slumping - the British are not taking their custard seriously enough, and I don't understand why. Do you ever meet anyone who says "I don't like custard"? Proof enough, surely. |
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