Autumn Dog Walk

 

Spiced Honey Loaf

160g Flour

160g honey

60g butter

1.5tsp mixed spice

5g baking powder

70g milk

60g brown sugar

Preheat oven to 155°C

Gently heat the butter, honey and sugar until liquid

Mix the dry ingredients together

Stir the milk in to the liquid and add the liquid to the dry ingredients

Butter or line a bread tin and pour the mixture in.

Bake until a skewer comes out clean, 45mins to an hour

Delicious plain or with butter

Wellington went to the abattoir

 It was sad to see him go. He was a sweet cow, but we can’t keep the males or all the females. 

On the left here (with weaning ring). Dorne on the right will go next year.

We spent a lot of time getting him used to being caught so we could get him in the trailer. We had to get to the abattoir before the crack of dawn and we almost didn’t catch him because they were all very suspicious about this crack of dawn visit! Stressful!,

But all’s well that ends well (not for Welly I guess)

This is how to fit a cow in a small car…

Bone from a much bigger cow gifted by the abattoir to Poppy

Delicious! Best beef ever (well equal best with our other cows)

Visit from Cousin Rory

 Lots of fun and food and beer!

Mincemeat Recipe

240g suet

240g bramley apple grated

120g candied peel

120g marmalade

240g raisins

240g currents

300g brown sugar

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Juice of 2 lemons

Zest of 1 lemon

220ml brandy or whisky

Mix everything together in a bowl and leave overnight.

Put in to sealed jars 

Keeps for months, gets better with time (presumably up to a point!)