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So it is perfect weather for baking.

Today I am baking in the memory of my Dad. I found a recipe for one of his favourite slices, Fly Cemetery.

Fly cemetery

by Anne Lyall
(Edinburgh, Scotland)

2 cups raisins
1 cup currants
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 dessertspoon cornflour
1 teaspoon mixed spice

Place all ingredients in pan and boil for 3 minutes.
Put aside to cool.

PASTRY.
12 ozs self raising flour
3 ozs margarine
3 ozs lard
pinch salt
water to make into stiff dough

Rub fats into flour. (fine breadcrumbs)
Add water to mix
Knead together & roll out half to line greased swiss roll tin
Spread over cooled fruit mixture and cover with other half of pastry.
Brush with milk or beaten egg.
Bake in oven 190/375/gas mark 5 for 20 - 30 minutes.
Sprinkle with caster sugar.

And I should get something like this:



Except with hearts on each square of cemetery.

Do you ever bake in the memory of someone who is no longer in your life?

It's not even noon yet and it is a blistering 80F and heading higher. The sun is shining brightly. We expect thunderstorms. The Indy 500 is running today so we will stay well away from everything as it will be utter madness everywhere.

I sat a bit and thought about my veterans in my life. I have never baked in honor of someone deceased.

I nearly lost it over your dessert being called fly cemetery. Baked raisin anything always looks like a pile of dead flies to me.

It goes without saying that it was bloody lovely (despite the name)...

Thanks for the recipe Hen, I'l send you royalties if i can sell it. I bake as a stress relief and to keep my hand in and because I missed certain things from home. Hevva cake, Saffron Cake, Pastys etc thats how this wee business has taken off!!

I currently have 4 litres of fresh Vegetable Soup with red lentils bubbling away on the stove. If the Old mans lucky i will save him some for dinner! Its a good money spinner hopefully it will pay to landscape our "garden" and then fund a holiday or 2!

I find baking a great stress reliever myself.

So ... send me your Saffron Cake recipe!

SisterMaryFellatio wrote:Thanks for the recipe Hen, I'l send you royalties if i can sell it. I bake as a stress relief and to keep my hand in and because I missed certain things from home. Hevva cake, Saffron Cake, Pastys etc thats how this wee business has taken off!!

I currently have 4 litres of fresh Vegetable Soup with red lentils bubbling away on the stove. If the Old mans lucky i will save him some for dinner! Its a good money spinner hopefully it will pay to landscape our "garden" and then fund a holiday or 2!

What sort of place are you running these days Sister M?

What's the difference between a raisin and a currant?

Why would anyone need to use both in a recipe?

Saffron Cake

Pinch of saffron
sachet of dried yeast
11/2lb plain flour
1lb currants
4oz caster sugar
5oz lard
1 lge egg
1/2 cup warm milk

Saffron in to warm milk and leave overnight.(or atleast a coupla hours)

Sift flour add sugar, rub in lard until breadcrumby, add currants, yeast and saffron milk. Knead to form a pliable dough.(might need more milk!) Put into a warm place to prove for an hour or until it had doubled in size. Knead again and chuck into a well greased loaf tin and cook at around 170 for an hour.

This is all from memory Hen. I just chuck ingrediants in until it looks/feels right. you might have to adjust cooking temp and time for your oven.

Lemme know how it goes

xx

Joe Guy wrote:What's the difference between a raisin and a currant?

Why would anyone need to use both in a recipe?

Ever had a chocolate covered currant??? lol

Different grapes used is the short answer therefore different taste and texture.

Sultanas - white grapes
Currants - red grapes

Oooh! I used to love saffron cake when I lived in Kernow

Apart from running a home, caring for an inquisitve 3 year old an ornery old fart and working as a receptionist in an Emergency centre you ask Gob???

Just a little business from home providing a coupla local restaurants with decent homemade, organic (where poss) cakes, biccies and as of today soups.

I missed Hevva Cake more......actually think it could be Cornish menu tonight for dinner...time to make pasties...and hubby if your reading this can you bring some lard home with ya. Hevva Cake afterwards!!

SisterMaryFellatio wrote:Apart from running a home, caring for an inquisitve 3 year old an ornery old fart and working as a receptionist in an Emergency centre you ask Gob???

Yeah, apart from the trivia, what you doing?

Just a little business from home providing a coupla local restaurants with decent homemade, organic (where poss) cakes, biccies and as of today soups.

Sweet as!

SisterMaryFellatio wrote:Apart from running a home, caring for an inquisitve 3 year old an ornery old fart and working as a receptionist in an Emergency centre you ask Gob???

Just a little business from home providing a coupla local restaurants with decent homemade, organic (where poss) cakes, biccies and as of today soups.

All this, and you have time to waste here!? Are you triplets, Sister M?

Now thats a fab idea...cloning me!!

I am sure there are some people who would hate the idea.

I am not that busy just seems it when you write it down.

Well, the Fly Cemeteries came out JUST as I remembered them.

I hated them then, and I still hate them now.

Gob seems to enjoy them though, so that is a blessing.

Having one now in fact

Must be a 'bloke' thing then.