craftyhunnypie Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Or as we call it haus frau ! I've been a good wifey this afternoon & pottered about my kitchen making a batch of raspberry jam & a batch of gooseberry jam - fruit was reduced dirt cheap in Waitrose! I've also made a shepherds pie for tea & might even whip up a microwave jam sponge yet. Mmm yummy with carnation milk on, even though hubby will want custard..what is it with men & custard? I never realised jam making can be so easy & therapeutic - quite quick too & the gooseberries yielded a good 4 jars. The raspberries - 1 small, one large & a half jar for us. Just going to check when the Betley show is now - I know it's soon! I stumbled across some good crafty websites too for making things this was one http://www.allfreecrafts.com/giftinajar/index.shtml and the other was http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/2102.asp Love the gift in a jar recipes! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapinou Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Yum! Sounds lovely! I prefer carnation milk but as it's made by nestle I can't bring myself to buy it now and have to resort to custard or cream. I've never been able to find any other company that makes condensed milk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whittlewitch Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Must admit I always feel all domesticated if I've done a bit of baking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Yum! Sounds lovely! I prefer carnation milk but as it's made by nestle I can't bring myself to buy it now and have to resort to custard or cream. I've never been able to find any other company that makes condensed milk Showing my ignorance - what's wrong with Nestle? (I have a feeling I should know but I don't!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I bought a few empty douwe egburts jars at a fete for 20p each and i've got someone on freecycle saving me theirs. I'm going to make nigella's choc/pistachio fudge and put it in the jars for christmas pressies and jazz up the jars to look festive. anyone got any other easy fudge recipes at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Yum! Sounds lovely! I prefer carnation milk but as it's made by nestle I can't bring myself to buy it now and have to resort to custard or cream. I've never been able to find any other company that makes condensed milk Showing my ignorance - what's wrong with Nestle? (I have a feeling I should know but I don't!) The main objection is their promoting of bottle feeding in third world countries where the sanitation and people are poor thereby causing the needless death of innocent babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapinou Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Yum! Sounds lovely! I prefer carnation milk but as it's made by nestle I can't bring myself to buy it now and have to resort to custard or cream. I've never been able to find any other company that makes condensed milk Showing my ignorance - what's wrong with Nestle? (I have a feeling I should know but I don't!) In a nutshell (don't want to hijack the thread!): A lot of babies die around the world because they weren't breastfed. The World Health Organisation have a set of rules that formula manufacturers ought to abide by in order to protect breastfeeding. Some countries have adopted all or some of the code as law The formula manufacturers all say they want to protect breastfeeding, but they keep breaching the code and market their milks very aggressively and unethically Nestle are the worst offenders so they are the target of an international boycott and have been for many, many years The boycott was suspended for a while when it really made an impact on Nestle and they started to change It was restarted when Nestle reverted to their old ways Happy to answer further questions in another thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yolky Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I wonder if you could buy different brands of condensed milk in shops like lidl or aldi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Alot of them are still actually made by nestle If you look at the letters on the bar code if it starts with an N then I think it is still made by nestle Fussels used to make it independantly but they are now part of the nestle group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapinou Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Alot of them are still actually made by nestle If you look at the letters on the bar code if it starts with an N then I think it is still made by nestle Fussels used to make it independantly but they are now part of the nestle group My grandparents have boycotted nestle for years just because they hate huge multi-nationals - they didn't even know about the baby milk issue until I told them. They have fingers in so many pies, it's hard to boycott them at first, but you get used to it eventually. There's a big list on the baby milk action website of things Nestle make money from - some of them really obscure, like they have shares in L'Oreal and L'Oreal now own the Body Shop so lots of boycotters boycott them now! (I don't - I like their ginger shampoo too much!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
