What did we do before the beeps !!!!!
- Thread starter JAG009
- Start date
Very simple
Melt butter in a nonstick frying pan on a low heat
Crack three duck eggs into the pan and swirl to break the eggs (much higher yolk to white ratio with a richer taste)
Pour in a generous glug of double cream and swirl again keeping everything moving
When nearly all the runny stuff has gone, give a grind of sea salt (no pepper) and finish cooking. Stop swirling as you want large, rich, soft pieces of fondant egg.
Plate up on buttered sesame toast and dust well with paprika.
Consume with freshly squeezed orange juice in a highball glass.
Sit back and feel your arteries harden.
ETA He's wrong about toast too. It should be done with very fresh bread cut thick - cooked hot so that its golden brown outside but still soft inside. Then buttered so that it crispy outside, hot, soft and buttery inside.
Last edited:
I use milk and grated chedder instead of cream and butter and add a double dash of tobasco to that. Im with red on the toast tho'. Thick cut fresh white. Soft in the middle.
In my defence I have to say I have tried cooking, I even tried to make bread once. I was wintering on a mooring on the River Fal, so I went up river in the dinghy on the tide and bought all the ingredients in Truro. Rowed back on the ebb and set to cooking...
Wonderful smell in the galley and the bread came out golden brown although it did feel a trifle heavy... Couldn't cut it, I had to batton the knife through it, even then it didn't really cut, it sort of shattered. In the end I gave up, carried the broken bits into the cockpit and threw them overside into the river. Seagull swooped down gulped a piece down and promptly sank..
Haven't tried baking since...
Wonderful smell in the galley and the bread came out golden brown although it did feel a trifle heavy... Couldn't cut it, I had to batton the knife through it, even then it didn't really cut, it sort of shattered. In the end I gave up, carried the broken bits into the cockpit and threw them overside into the river. Seagull swooped down gulped a piece down and promptly sank..
Haven't tried baking since...
In my defence I have to say I have tried cooking, I even tried to make bread once. I was wintering on a mooring on the River Fal, so I went up river in the dinghy on the tide and bought all the ingredients in Truro. Rowed back on the ebb and set to cooking...
Wonderful smell in the galley and the bread came out golden brown although it did feel a trifle heavy... Couldn't cut it, I had to batton the knife through it, even then it didn't really cut, it sort of shattered. In the end I gave up, carried the broken bits into the cockpit and threw them overside into the river. Seagull swooped down gulped a piece down and promptly sank..
Haven't tried baking since...
I think one might have grown slightly in the telling, but it made me laugh anyway
The quality of a story is not measured in its veracity, but in the enjoyment experienced by its audience
BTW I love the Fal, but I don't care what anyone says, the Dart is the most beautiful river in England.
Perfectly true story Harvestman...up to the sinking Seagull that is...
Agreed Red, the Dart is very beautiful, but finances dictated that a Truro Harbour Masters mooring won the day over a Dart Authority winter fee.
Lying at Dartmouth...
And on the River Fal..
Agreed Red, the Dart is very beautiful, but finances dictated that a Truro Harbour Masters mooring won the day over a Dart Authority winter fee.
Lying at Dartmouth...
And on the River Fal..
Last edited:
Oh that I understand - and the Cornish coast has a rugged beauty the softer Devon Coast lacks. My "olds" now live overlooking the mouth of the Exe - my old "home river". Even so many decades later it still gives me a pang to go back as I did last week.
The quality of a story is not measured in its veracity, but in the enjoyment experienced by its audience
I agree completely.
Disagree here. The Wye for me. Mind you, it is more in Wales than England, so maybe we agree after all.
I've not sailed on the Wye (yet) so I can't comment - but it must be heaven to beat this
It has its moments...
I'd like to see the Dart too though.
Plus 1 to this; and I use a cast iron frying pan instead of a "no-stick." Another favorite is a good frittata.
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I dont trust non-stick at all. Very very dodgy chemical. Seasoned metal and enamel every time.
I dont own a mircowave either. I only ever used it for precooking baked spuds to reduce fuel bills. I dont have a lot of gadgets, my old man does the cooking when he is here. Otherwise I do cook a lot of stews and soups. I could cook bread when I lived in england, I dont mnow if is oven or the tap water here. The bread I cooked last night could sink a ship, and my son has just said I am being over confident if I expect him to take lunch made from it. I had a bread maker, I gave it away when I moved here. It worked fine with stoke tap water, but the dough from welsh tap water made it bubble over and it became a fire risk.
I dont own a mircowave either. I only ever used it for precooking baked spuds to reduce fuel bills. I dont have a lot of gadgets, my old man does the cooking when he is here. Otherwise I do cook a lot of stews and soups. I could cook bread when I lived in england, I dont mnow if is oven or the tap water here. The bread I cooked last night could sink a ship, and my son has just said I am being over confident if I expect him to take lunch made from it. I had a bread maker, I gave it away when I moved here. It worked fine with stoke tap water, but the dough from welsh tap water made it bubble over and it became a fire risk.
Last edited:
It has its moments...
I'd like to see the Dart too though.
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/s...k.org/files/uploaded/u11444/Dart Sharpham.JPG
K
Looks like the EU has firmly vetoed that idea!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ads-EU-fines-threat-reusing-old-jam-jars.html
Reading that article all the way to it's end, the last lines state that it's against health regs to re-use jam jars unless they're specifically designed for that. The type jars BR is talking about (and indeed the one pictured in the article) are designed for re-use.
I re-use jam jars all the time. They are glass. They are sterilised.
If anyone wants to prosecute me, bring it on.
If anyone wants to prosecute me, bring it on.
