… is actually not much use. Particularly a one armed cook who wails a lot whilst wearing a sling. I’m hoping things will better tomorrow so in the meantime I am lying in bed, reading cookery books.
I was up early, to get a glass of water and looked out at the city below
That makes me think, hmmmm, comfort food…. and somehow, because I feel so awful, I thought of what my mother would have done to look after me. Autumn afternoons, curled up on a sofa, covered in a blanket with Ma bringing me hot toasted crumpets with butter and honey….
So I took out “Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3” and looked up crumpets. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is producing a series of River Cottage handbooks and this one, on all aspects of bread and baking, is excellent. It’s also a very good read and I’m sure that’s nothing to do with the drugs I’ve been given.
I don’t know why I haven’t thought to make crumpets before, or why I must have thought they would be difficult… So, as soon as I can manage to move my arm, guess what I am going to be baking?
Well then, who’s with me? If I do it first will you have a go? How good would that be? And with butter and honey melting on top of them …….
We’ve tried crumpets before – they weren’t very successful – hopefully yours will be so we can see where we went wrong.
I have the ingredients for bread… I just have to find the time now – I will. Promise!
I am going to mix the dough tonight and then get a friend to help me get it out of the oven tomorrow. Maybe I should try the crumpets on Friday? 😉
wendy, are you trying to make me fat????