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Spiced Mead, eat well on universal credit

Well it might not be food, but it’s home made! Strangely the local supermarket had a load of jars of Honey at 49p a jar in January. It was apparently close to it’s ‘Best before date’! Honey by it’s very nature is one of the few food items which are not dried which will never go off. But their loss is our gain…..

Ingredients:-

4 x 400ml jars of runny Honey
1 Cinnamon Stick, snapped in half
2 Thumb sized lumps of Ginger, peeled
4 Cloves
1 Sachet of (Polish shop) Dry fast acting Yeast
Water
Liquid Finings sachet

Method:-

(1) Bung all the ingredients in a demijohn with enough water to allow a little head space.
(2) With your hand over the opening, give it all a good shake.
(3) Place a bung and air-trap in the neck.
(4) Make sure it doesn’t make a mess through the air-trap for the first week of fast fermentation. If so clean the outside for the demijohn.
(5) Pop in a cupboard and check the water level in the air-trap once in a while.
(6) Leave it alone until the air-trap stops bubbling.
(7) Decant using a pipe into another large bottle and sterilize the demijohn ( If you can’t get hold of proper tablets, Denture tablets work perfectly! )
(8) Rinse the demijohn well and then return the Mead.
(9) Add liquid finings ( You can buy these on-line for very little. )
(10) Allow to clear for 24 hours.
(11) Decant into seal-able bottles.
(12) At this stage it will be good. Give it a few months to mature and it will be better.

We tried a small tipple each before adding the finings. It’s very warming. I suspect as there is quite a sweetness that it has brewed out to 11 to 12 %, which is the best ( Or worst! ) you can expect from this sort of Yeast. It’ll be a treat tipple. Not for drinking by the pint, as we’re likely to loose days of our lives if we did!!!!!!!


 

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It’s a play on words really as there’s a yellow sticker Chicken Burger invasion in our version of an Egg Benedict. The Chicken mince I found at the same time was truly dreadful and regardless of how little it says on a yellow sticker, I’ll never buy it again. But these Burgers were very tasty. How the results from clearly mechanically recovered Chicken can be so variable, beats me…..

Ingredients for the Hollandaise Sauce:-

100g of Butter (Margarine), melted
2 Egg Yolkes
1 Tsp of White Wine Vinegar
Salt & Pepper

Method:-

(1) Whisk the Egg Yolks and White Wine Vinegar in a bowl.
(2) Place the bowl of a pan of simmering water, making sure the bowl is not immersed in the water.
(3) Slowly pour in the melted Butter while continuously whisking, until the sauce has thickened.
(4) Season with Salt & Pepper.

Additional Ingredients:-

A thick slice of Sour Dough bread per person (Gluten free for us)
Spinach
Chicken Burgers
Streaky Bacon
Vinegar
2 Eggs per person
Margarine
Fresh (Home grown) Parsley to garnish

Method:-

(1) Grill the Bacon until it is crispy.
(2) Gently fry the Burgers until they are browned on both sides and set aside under a warm grill.
(3) In a frying pan gently wilt the Spinach in a little Margarine.
(4) Toast the bread on both sides and set aside.
(5) Bring a pan of water to the boil and stir in a little Vinegar.
(6) Swirl the water and then poach the Eggs individually.
(7) Build by adding the wilted Spinach to the toasted bread. Next cut the Burgers in half and add them. Now add the poached Eggs. Pour the Hollandaise Sauce over the top and dress with the crispy Bacon and a sprinkle of Parsley.

This really was a very tasty meal. The Bread and Burgers were both yellow sticker finds. So although it looks a bit fancy this recipe was well within budget!
 

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