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#food #baking #pudding #jam #custard
Egg Sugar Flour and Butter
combine with fruit for something after tea
a little thing that’s fruity and sweet
with a layer that’s simply utter
delicious, flavoursome and buttery
its the fruit covered layer – that gives it a swirl
served up with custard its hard to beat
a childhood favourite – why not give it a whirl ?
#fruit #tree #pie #San-San
Growing against the stone tudor wall
hanging fruit ripens for the pie
coming from the tree but once a season
the fruit answers the cooks call
as over the garden young birds do fly
could this be why its baked with haste
there could be no other plausible reason
to deprive the feathered friends a taste
#coloryourworld #cyw #fruit #banana #yellow
Born out of a tree
A yellow skinned treat
Nice between two slices of bread
Also appreciated by young uns in a cake of some sort
Note though whether in a cake or not – they’re great with custard
A note of caution – don’t eat the peel – they’re not like apples
#cyw #almond
A tasty treat – whether its
lining the outside of a cake or its innards
marzipan makes some great decoration
of course its tasty as part of the cake too
newcomers to these treats might need some training
dont forget to break it open – that shell is hard!
#napowrimo #bakers #window
I can remember walking past the bakers shop
I was six or seven,
a special treat – but only to be eaten after lunch
and that was if – i could find it
you see, my treat was hiding around the bread rolls
playing peek a boo by the chocolate cakes
and skipping around the Chelsea buns
but there was always a moment
where he’d pop up in the bakers window
to say hello
adorned with glace cherries and coloured icing
so i’d forget the iced buns or the Egg Custards
and enjoy my special tasty treat
provided by the baker who made my gingerbread man
#Napowrimo #Baking #Shardorma
Almond Nut
mixed in with flour
quickly rose
it was not
the power of soda
but oven heat instead
#socs #food #butter
I
Born out of the milkchurn,
unsalted and golden
taking a morning trip onto
toast, crumpets and scones
even the odd fish or two
remarkable
II
Brought together with flour and sugar
up in the kitchen
there’s something sweet cooking,
the mix is in the oven, but
everyone knows the best part of the prep – licking the
round mixing spoon and the bowl
III
Building blocks for Bakers
using fat for a meat pie might be ok – but
the sweet stuff needs something for
the fillings to accompany it – providing an
envelope for the fruit to go in ,
roundly eaten off with custard or cream
#SocS #Bythehundreds #Sweet
Held in a container and kept
Up on the same shelf as the glace cherries
Numerous sweet strands wait for the
Day they decend on the fairy cakes
Rainbow Rebellion? no…more like decoration
Each one looking forward to the
Decadent day they add a spot of colour to the
Sweet icing they land on
#fowc #Dough
Down in a corner of the kitchen
Over by the bread bin and
Under a tea towel
Great things are happening – the bread’s beginning to prove
Hot ovens await, and butter and jam soon after
#Fowc #Combine
I. Baking
Take your favourite root vegetable
add it with some fat, flour, and a sugar for sweetness
put some additional berries or nuts
stir in, and stick in the oven
when ready – retrieve – cut up
and enjoy
II. Art
Trying to get the colour of
flowers in the garden
isn’t that hard
dropping some red with blue, or blue with yellow,
produces some lovely colour for those blackberries
you’re capturing in that pot
III. Chemistry
Creating new substances from items in the lab
has to be done with care
elements coming together in glass beakers
make colourful mixes , sometimes with
intense reactions –
so it makes sense to use a bit of forward planning
take care with those acids and alkalis and look out at
reactions – don’t forget your gloves and goggles
you’ll be grateful you wore them if the mixes turn violent
IV. Crops
pointing headwards in the sky
threshed and processed for the best yield
then sent to the mill to meet the stones
crushing them down for bread flour
or maybe even cornflakes
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