Krumkake

Ingredients
4 1/2 oz butter, softened to room temperature
3 1/2 oz white sugar
3 eggs
4 1/2 oz flour
water
Preparation
Cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the eggs, one at a time.
Stir in flour, mixing well. Add water until batter is the consistency of a thick cream sauce.
Lightly grease the two sides of a krumkake iron with melted butter . Heat iron over medium to medium-high burner just until a drop of water sizzles on the surface
Spoon a tablespoon of batter onto the center of the iron. Close iron, squeezing handles together lightly to spread the batter (but not so tightly that the batter leaks down the sides of the iron.)
Bake for 30 seconds, flip iron over, and bake an additional 30 seconds. Flip iron back to initial position, open, and immediately roll cookie around a krumkake cone or the handle of a wood spoon. Slip off cone and allow to cool on rack.
Store in tightly sealed container in order to retain crispness.
Krumkake are equally delicious when served alone or when filled with whipped cream and/or fruit.
Yield: 24 krumkake.

BEETROOT & CHOCOLATE MUFFINS

    2½oz cocoa powder
    6½oz plain flour
    2 tsp baking powder
    8½oz caster sugar
    8½oz cooked beetroot
    3 large eggs
    7fl oz corn oil
    2oz chocolate chips
    1 tsp vanilla extract
   
Preheat the oven to 355F/Gas 4. Arrange paper muffin   cases in a 12-mould muffin tin.
Sift the cocoa powder, flour and baking powder into a bowl. Mix in the sugar and chocolate chips and set aside.
Purée the beetroot in a food processor. Add the eggs, one at a time, then add the vanilla and oil and blend until smooth.
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add the beetroot mixture and lightly mix.
Pour into the muffin cases.
Bake for 30 minutes or until the top is firm when pressed with a finger.
Cool on a wire rack.

Sunsets

For British Red

Well I was just going to post a link to an 'old blog' from 6/1/11 as I still chuckle at the comment his kids made about Teddy, but on searching for it, it's one of the several that didn't transfer when Google + took over ? So seen as the photo's are still in Picasa 
I'll post it again

It was one of several attempts to find Brown Hill Barrows
http://teddytourteas.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/brown-hill-barows.html
funny enough there's a working link in there to the missing post ?

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Teddy Tours to Knotteranum

6th January,

Well its rained most of the week but the Met office dales weather said fine and sunny with good visibility for today (Thursday) so I printed out a map A4  and laminated it from my (to visit) folder, got a chicken breast and a (birds eye) chilli sausage out of the freezer last night.Thawed out by this morning so a little prep before packing haversack :- skin sausage, slit chicken breast, stuff sausage meat and a couple of sun dried tomatoes in then a drizzle of olive oil and wrap in smoked bacon then x2 layers of bacofoil, 

finished packing haversack boots on, gaiters on, Bear in haversack out to van --- it’s raining ! set off anyway Barnoldswick – Gisburn – Bolton by Bowland – Holden, where I left the rain behind  – Stocks Reservoir stopped on the causeway looking left at the ice covering

 and looking right

 and parked by Fosters Crag  -
19 miles from home and 1383 ft elivation

and here's the funny comment
 "Ohh! Teddy doesn't want to get out"

looking back to Stocks resevoir

set off along the wall, looking back to Fosters Crag

from a good Bivy spot (more later)

and looking where I'm going - just follow the wall

I passed the ruin at Fair Hill Fell

set off across the cleared wood but underfoot was treacherous with snow covered brash and sphagnum bog with some of the large trees blown over I called it a day

and headed back to the Bivy spot, non too soon looking upwind

landed back at the Bivy spot at Knotteranum and lit the Bar-B-Q a stainless sink utensil drainer with some self lighting charcoal helped with meth’s

while this got going I put a drip coffee on to brew

then the foil parcel on I’ve done this dozens of times so I know 20 minutes first side turn over 15 minutes second

So went for a look around with the coffee leaving the Bear in charge

the sun came out as I was photographing Penyghent (telephoto)

and Inglebourgh (telephoto)

 I could  hear a tinkling noise, at first I thought it was the camera but traced it to a hidden (in the heather) spring about 15 yards East

 close up the water was still flowing though just beginning to form an ice stalagmite, this must make it an even better Bivy spot 

on the way back to the Bivy spot I could smell the Bar-B-Q 

 as I finished it off with a 2007 Campo Viejo Rioja, the weather began to close in and I was glad to get to the last rise and see the van  

my footsteps across the road

and back to the van and this is the sun not the moon

and the way home

 just thought I'd share (again) - cheers all Danny