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One has been eaten :-D Seven quiches (not giant ones) are in the fridge, waiting for DH to demolish some, then I'll have to rearrange the freezer AGAIN.

I must have bumped my head, because I spent most of today cooking!

After the quiches......... got a hankering for lasagne...... made that, and also made four apple & custard tarts (small ones). The lasagne will go in the fridge to heat up tomorrow night, half of it will (hopefully) fit in the freezer.

My DH likes quiche...... many years ago some eejit said "real men don't eat quiche"...... DH said "real men eat what they want so bug*r off" :-D

I think it is the custardy texture that spoils a very good cheese and onion flan.

lolol....... I'll try a cheese, apple & custard quiche :-D

DH has eaten two quiches...... five to go.

:-D

Apple and custard tart. Yum.

How do you make that then?

Apple & custart tarts.......... the recipe is vague........

I make 4 small ones, but this could make 1 large one

Shortcrust pastry for the base (1 sheet of commercial pastry will do)
Puff pastry for the top (1 sheet...)
1 cup stewed apple (I cut up 2 granny smiths & nuke them)
1/4 cup sultanas
1 cup very thick custard
1 Tablespoon sugar

OR..... make your own pastry........... or use canned apple & supermarket custard.

Mix the sultanas with the apples. 1/4 cup into each base, add 1/4 cup custard, top with puff pastry and sprinkle with sugar.

Vague as to cooking time too........ 10 minutes then watch them....... until the tops are golden brown. I bake them at 170-180C

Best to put the pie plate/s on a baking tray, because if the pies leak you get a mess.

Very nice warm with cream.

That looks like my sort of recipe. I like a bit of precision.

Precision?

lol.......... that's for the first time I use a recipe. I've had a few laughs when I've found a recipe and realise that what I now make isn't very much like the original.

:-D

I had to add the bit about the baking tray. I'd rather scour one tray than clean a sticky mess out of an oven.

I cook by the chuck and dollop method.

I had problems at cookery class in school. The teacher made sure we measured everything perfectly.

That was a bit difficult to get used to, as I started cooking at around 8 or 9 years old, by watching Mum. My mother was a great cook, rarely followed recipes, she just made things up, depending on what was available. Mum was about 10 when WW2 started, so she probably learned how to cook (with what was available) from her mother, feeding a family on rations.

Mum had some vague Scottish expressions for measurements, my favourite being "a wee totie bit", which could mean anything from a pinch to half a cup......... and the gas being on "a wee peep".

LadyScozz,
I still use those words.
Gas on a peep and a wee totie ( pronounced toe-tee) bit!

About 7 or 8yrs ago, I made contact with a distant rellie who left Lanarkshire for OZ in the early 1960's.
He sent me an email, telling me all about himself.
I was on the floor with laughter!
He used words and phrases that haven't existed in Scottish language since around 1975!
He actually talked about the days when he and The Wife..." were "winchin'"

It took me right back to the awful times when an older person would ask:
"Are ye winchin' hen' ?
( Translates: "Do you have a boyfriend, dear)"

Glasgow Lass :-D

My Mum's first trip back to Scotland was funny. That would have been in the early 1980s, so she hadn't been to Scotland for 30 years. Mum's version of "Scottish" was the 1960 (and before that) one. The younger generation had no idea what she was talking about.

From when I was about 15-16 my aunt would write to us, asking if I was "Wynchin" yet!

I knew it! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Apparently it's the same with the Polish community in Scotland.
The new influx, especially in Dundee have realised that the original immigrants from WW2 , and their descendants, still speak 1930/40's Polish
They dont understand each other either!

It's a world-wide thing.

A friend in Germany, her grandfather visited distant cousins in Australia........ grandad's English wasn't so good, but they spoke "German" to him........ the German they had learned from their grandparents, who were children when they emigrated to Oz! Grandad thought it was funny, and the Aussie/German relatives were bewildered.

:-D

This is funny, a thread about stock............ turned Scottish.... what is it now? :-D

English is the language of Namibia but you can see how it came to them.

It was odd to hear people talk of their lastborn child in the same sentence as some sort of colloquial American word.