Due to many requests, here are the recipes from the parents’ cookery course.

Foolproof Brown Bread                                                     Farmhouse Vegetable Soup

Ingredients                                                                        Ingredients

180grms  plain flour                                                      2 small onions

340grms wholemeal flour                                           2 large carrots

2 level teaspoons bread soda                                      1 large parsnip

1 egg                                                                              2 medium potatoes

1 pint of buttermilk                                                          half a cauliflower

        or                                                                             medium stem of broccoli

1 pint of milk plus 1 dessertspoon                              1 clove of garlic

of vinegar or lemon juice                                               1 vegetable stock

85grms porridge oats                                                      A few mixed herbs and black pepper

1 dessertspoon of bran                                                   You will need

Oil to grease the tin                                                          Chopping boards for vegetables

You will need                                                                    Sharp knives

Loaf tin                                                                                 Vegetable peeler

Weighing scales                                                                Tablespoon

Mixing bowl                                                                      Dessertspoon

Sieve                                                                                     Garlic crusher

Wooden spoon                                                                 Large saucepan

Measuring jug                                                                  Kettle

Teaspoon                                                                            Hand blender or liquidiser

Dessertspoon                                                                    Wooden spoon

2 knives                                                                                Measuring jug

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Fork                                                                                         What to do

Skewer                                                                              1. Wash, peel and chop the vegetables

Oven gloves                                                                    2. Finely chop or crush the garlic.

Wire tray                                                                          3. Cut the cauliflower and broccoli into

What to do                                                                          florets.

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees /gas mark 6.         4.Place onions and garlic in the

2. Oil the loaf.                                                                    saucepan with a little water and cook

3. Sieve the plain flour and bread soda.                         for about 5 minutes.

4. Mix all the dry ingredients together                  5. Add carrots, potatoes and parsnips

in a bowl.                                                                             and cook for another 5 minutes.

5. Beat the egg and milk and add to dry                 6. Dissolve vegetable stock in 2 pints

 ingredients.                                                                       of boiling water. Add to vegetables

6. Pour into the loaf tin and bake in the                           and bring to the boil.

preheated oven for 50 minutes.                               7. Stir in the cauliflower and broccoli.

7. Test with a skewer or knife. if the knife                8.Simmer for 10-15 minutes or until

or skewer is dry, the bread is cooked. If it                  the potatoes are soft.

is wet, bake for another 5 minutes.                          9.Once cooked, liquidise the mixture

8. Remove from tin.                                                        using the blender.

9. Cool on a wire tray before you slice.                  10. Return the blended soup to

                                                                                                the oven and reheat without boiling.

                                                                                   11.Season with herbs and black pepper. 

                                                     Bon appetite!!!!!!!!!!!

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