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Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 5:16 pm Post subject: Lunchbox recipes

No cheap jibes...this is to complement the "Does it really matter what you eat for lunch thread".

I thought we could make a resource of things that people make/keep for their lunchboxes. The type of food that's easy to eat, reheat, keep cold, doesn't fall to bits or go off. That type of thing.

I'll start it off with oat and raisin cookies, from a book by Emma Patmore which I can't find on Amazon, so I assume it's out of print and don't feel guilty about sharing the recipe:

50g butter
125g sugar
1 beaten egg
50g s/r flour
1/2 tsp salt
175g porridge oats
125g raisins
2 tbsp sesame seeds

Beat sugar in to butter, then beat in egg, then sift in flour and salt and mix.

Stir in porridge oats, raisins and sesame seeds till evenly coated with mix.

Drop lumps on to greased baking trays, bake at 180c/350f/mark4 for 15 minutes (or a bit less if you make more)

Notes...

I find this is too much salt and sugar, so reduce both, the sugar by about 1 1/2 ounces, salt by about half - it's probably completely unnecessary.

I also add more porridge oats - probably a good two ounces more, and more raisins. They're also nice with dried cherries and probably any other fruit, and you can add nuts and chocolate...hazlenut and chocolate go v well with the raisins. Basically it's very flexible. They're nice mid morning biscuits, or even breakfast ones, as they're basically muesli held together with cake mix!

I often make a double batch which lasts us a week of generous snacks for two people's packed lunches. It might last longer if you're less greedy.

From Baking by Emma Patmore, Dempsey Parr 1998 (may still be available in discount bookshops, about �2.99)

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 5:23 pm Post subject:
So the credit to the cookery book was totally unnecessary then?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 5:28 pm Post subject:
Que

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 9:35 pm Post subject:
If you change a recipe, you can claim it as your own.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 9:46 pm Post subject:

I always cook far too much for dinner so I can take it for lunch next day. Today i had leftover poached salmon in my sarnies, tomorrow I will have braised pheasant with chestnuts that I can shove in the microwave at work. Roast dinners can provide you with all kinds of interesting permutations for the best part of a week!!

My colleagues all think I've lost the plot but i don't care. Although i was suddenly the most popular girl in the office when I took in the home made Bailey's at Christmas

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