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Spiced Mead, eat well on universal credit

Well it might not be food, but it’s home made! Strangely the local supermarket had a load of jars of Honey at 49p a jar in January. It was apparently close to it’s ‘Best before date’! Honey by it’s very nature is one of the few food items which are not dried which will never go off. But their loss is our gain…..

Ingredients:-

4 x 400ml jars of runny Honey
1 Cinnamon Stick, snapped in half
2 Thumb sized lumps of Ginger, peeled
4 Cloves
1 Sachet of (Polish shop) Dry fast acting Yeast
Water
Liquid Finings sachet

Method:-

(1) Bung all the ingredients in a demijohn with enough water to allow a little head space.
(2) With your hand over the opening, give it all a good shake.
(3) Place a bung and air-trap in the neck.
(4) Make sure it doesn’t make a mess through the air-trap for the first week of fast fermentation. If so clean the outside for the demijohn.
(5) Pop in a cupboard and check the water level in the air-trap once in a while.
(6) Leave it alone until the air-trap stops bubbling.
(7) Decant using a pipe into another large bottle and sterilize the demijohn ( If you can’t get hold of proper tablets, Denture tablets work perfectly! )
(8) Rinse the demijohn well and then return the Mead.
(9) Add liquid finings ( You can buy these on-line for very little. )
(10) Allow to clear for 24 hours.
(11) Decant into seal-able bottles.
(12) At this stage it will be good. Give it a few months to mature and it will be better.

We tried a small tipple each before adding the finings. It’s very warming. I suspect as there is quite a sweetness that it has brewed out to 11 to 12 %, which is the best ( Or worst! ) you can expect from this sort of Yeast. It’ll be a treat tipple. Not for drinking by the pint, as we’re likely to loose days of our lives if we did!!!!!!!


 

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Thai Drunken Noodles

There’s actually no Alcohol involved in this recipe. The name apparently is due to the fact that they are easy street food to snack on during a night our, or alternatively a good hangover cure. We’ll take their word for that. But they’re very tasty.

Ingredients:-

4 Chicken thighs, de-boned and chopped
3 Cloves of Garlic, minced
2 Tbsp of Sugar or Honey
2 Tsp of Rice Wine Vinagar
3 Tbsp of Fish Sauce. Plus 2 Tsp for the marinade
1 Tbsp of Soy Sauce
1 Onion, sliced
1 Red Pepper, sliced
1 Red Chilli, sliced
A handful of Thai Basil, chopped
2 Spring Onions, sliced
2 Tbsp of Oyster Sauce
200g / A third of a packet of Rice Noodles
2 Carrots, batoned
6 Mushrooms, sliced
½ Tsp of ground Black Pepper
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) Make up the sauce in a bowl using the Rice Wine Vinegar, Fish Sauce, Oyster Sauce, Soy Sauce and Honey. Stir well.
(2) Season the Chicken with Black Pepper and marinade in Fish Sauce for at least 20 minutes.
(3) Fry the Garlic and Chilli in Oil until fragrant then add the Onion.
(4) Add the Chicken and fry for 5 minutes.
(5) While the Chicken is cooking boil the noodles according to the packet and then rinse in cold water. Set aside.
(6) Add the Peppers, Spring Onions, Mushroom and Carrots.
(7) Fry for a further 2 minutes.
(8) Add the sauce mix and simmer for 5 minutes.
(9) Add the cooked noodles and gently combine.
(10) Add the Thai Basil and stir in until wilted.

We added a bit of home grown Basil and additional Spring Onions as a garnish.

 

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