Earlier in
April our ladies were tarting it up, with Liz Herbert’s’ Best-kept Secrets of the
Women’s Institute – Tarts! I could just leave it there and let your imagination
run wild, maybe these ladies are not so gentile as they make themselves out to
be - I’ve said it before.. what happens in baking club, stays in baking club.
Alas nothing that scandalous, the baking club were hard at work making prawn,
tomato, and mozzarella tartlets. The sumptuous smells of the tartlet fillings
filled up the kitchen and the ladies could not contain themselves and they
decided as per the recipe, that life was too short to skin a tomato! Well I
would have to agree, you’ll never get that time again, plus most of the
nutrition is in the skin!
Now that the savoury feast has been loving executed, pudding time! The baking club had settled on lemon and lime ginger crunch pie, fearlessly they cracked on with making the filling, then they stumbled upon a school girl error, they did not read through the recipe before choosing for the evenings bake … the filling had to be left over night in the fridge! Oops!
It was time for them to put their
thinking caps on, the filling was put into individual cases in the fridge to be
assembled individually! A bit like if Ikea were to sell tarts, expect with a
higher expectation of being able construct the thing within one’s lifetime without
having a nervous breakdown. They were very proud of their dynamic problem solving
and even more chuffed when all the filo cases came out of the tins intact!
Well we
will have to make them ourselves if we want to know what they tasted like!
