APRIL BAKING CLUB

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! 

APRIL BAKING CLUB

The ladies were back on form this month, one could even say they were on a roll! Horley Evening WI baking club took on the Swiss roll challenge and all in all it was a successful evening. They created a beautiful Swiss roll and chocolate roulade. To meet the challenge, one of our members had the whip hand of discipline and they were able produce results worthy of the front of a glossy food mag. 

By their own words the winning endorsement, was not the that they smelt and tasted divine, but the fact that the “Swiss roll turned out like the picture in the book!”.  Here we see a clear example of setting a goal, meeting such goal and recognising one’s achievements. A life lesson rolled up in a light sponge and a decadent cream filling. It seems only their wisdom is to be shared with us, as they dutifully ate the lot!

If we wish to know how they tasted, we are going to have to make one ourselves … head on over to our baking page for the recipe.