#Fowc #Food # Turnover
Salford 15th April 2019
A tale of an Apple Turnover
This is a bit of a wonder
Undeniable – the baker is a bit of a marvel
Ripe apples transformed into a take home delight
Nice eaten hot with custard
Or cold with a bit of icecream
Varieties exist – some are spiced and others have sultanas in them
Everyone enjoys them as a breaktime treat –
Rows of delicious pastries leave, as fast as they are baked
Tuesday 11th December
A little treat, hides behind the
Doors of the advent calendar
Veiled behind some cardboard and foil
Each door has something tasty behind it
Noting the days passing
Towards Christmas Day
18th August 2018
#chocolate
They’re the bits of your favourite chocolate bars
that didn’t quite make it past quality control
chocolate covered clumped raisins
meet up with lumps of honeycomb
and those dolly mixtures, that shot past the bag
but didn’t hit the factory floor
producing a chocolate surprise – white or brown
sold in bags in each and every town
no search for perfection here – its sold at cost price
but kids they go for it – it tastes just as nice!
#Poetry #Sweets #Confectionary
17th July 2018
I
The container comes down
from the confectioners shelf and
each little drop of sweetness
spills into the bowl
II
Red and Yellow fancies
dusted with icing sugar
and as you open the bag
a blast of pear
III
Each Individually formed
rocky for a short while
but later smooth on the tongue
but watch for the sharp bits
IV
Thud of each drop
hitting the scale
rattle and then crunch
of the halves coming away
V
Sweet and Sour Sensations
tripping off the tongue
taking you back
to schoolday memories
ferried by box or by bag
Usually on birthdays
Delightful cubes of butter sugar and cream
Get sent to the house
Easily a delightful treat
Fairs at Christmas time
usually have stalls selling this
delicious treat, and it’s not just cubes
great shapes are made using cutters
expect strawberry hearts, mint chocolate rounds and raspberry diamonds
Good Gravy! It’s cold – said the wolf to his chums
Home’s where we should be, where its not so glum – So
Over to the old haunted house they to go as their
Shivering and eerie forms they glow
Tonight they’ll meet up with their friend for some tea
(and fly around the top of the house for free)
Wednesday 18th January 2017
I’ll be posting another piece from my notebooks later, but I’ve just been informed – c/o my Facebook and Twitter feeds…that it’s Winnie-the-pooh day.
and being an ardent Ursinian (that’s a fan of the Great Bear) – I thought i’d share this as it popped up on my public feed…. Pooh and one of the bees from the honey tree 🙂
Given I’ve been entitled to doing something special for an hour in the day – I might just peruse my big book of Winnie the pooh stories – by AA Milne, and enjoy a little something sweet while i’m reading it…
Have a great day folks!
Sat in the lounge
warming themselves by the log fire
inside the holiday villa
toasted marshmallows and hot, full on flavour
chocolate, to keep out any feel of winds outside
happy little nephews enjoying their evening
By the time you’ve all read this ditty
Another Banana will have been peeled, sliced and
Nicely sweetened with a little cocoa,
And slapped between two slices of wholemeal bread
Nice to eat, for a breakfast or
Afternoon Treat, A
Sandwich snack that’s yummy at any time!
In response to the prompt
I remember,
sitting by the oven door
watching the blue flames slowly
cook the fabulous fancies
in their individual tins
Flour, Butter and Sugar combining –
as the smell of desiccated coconut and chocolate
wondering in wisps up the nose
and slowly, the gloopy mix began to rise
and began to solidify
a tea time treat – for after
the shepherds pie and beans.
