Oh dear

[tonicha]

Don't know Ally, it's such a long time since I've tried.

The pasties aren't too bad, it'll be one for breakfast tomorrow and the rest for dinner on Friday.

[Ally]

Don't know Ally, it's such a long time since I've tried.

The pasties aren't too bad, it'll be one for breakfast tomorrow and the rest for dinner on Friday.

I don't make much pastry (I'm not a big fan) so am no expert. Remember mum rubbing the pastry mix between her fingertips as they are cooler than the hands.

I buy my filo sheets from Mercadona and say a prayer when I'm making any pastry from scratch.

[Kaz]

Yes, pastry needs a cool hand and preferably a cool surface. At one time I had a chest freezer in my kitchen with a melamine surface, and the pastry I made on there was the best I ever made I hardly bother now, for the few occasions on which I use pastry ready made is so cheap that it doesn't seem worth it

[Workingman]

WM, the flour we get is either for cakes, bread or plain white stuff.

Bread flour should do the job.

Now gravy.

In a jug dissolve a stock cube in the advised amount of boiling water.

In a warm pan add equal volumes of flour and butter, say 2 tsp of each. Cook the mix, stirring constantly with a whisk or a fork until a shiny paste forms then cook for a further minute. Remove the pan from the heat and slowly add the stock a bit at a time, whisking constantly. Put it back on the heat to simmer and thicken, more whisking needed.

There you go, lump free gravy.

Or you could buy Bisto ready mix.

[Nanna]

Great gravy ....... Bisto gravy granules! Just add boiling water and stir..... Hey presto

[Workingman]

Great gravy ....... Bisto gravy granules! Just add boiling water and stir..... Hey presto

As a Northern lass I would not expect you to do gravy granules, Nanna. Ton, yes, you, no.

[Nanna]

Great gravy ....... Bisto gravy granules! Just add boiling water and stir..... Hey presto

As a Northern lass I would not expect you to do gravy granules, Nanna. Ton, yes, you, no.

LOL. I ain't northern WM. I'm a suvener! Although I moved to the North 42 years ago, I still have my suven accent

[Workingman]

And your suven cooking skills.

[Nanna]

And your suven cooking skills.

Definitely

[tonicha]

As a Northern lass I would not expect you to do gravy granules, Nanna. Ton, yes, you, no.

Erm, 'scuse me Mr WM - I was born in Liverpool, think that may make me a northener - just one that can't do gravy