School Recipes - Savoury Layer Potatoes

I loved the cookery lessons at the Allertonshire School, Brompton Road, Northallerton. I attended this school from 1982-1985 and had cookery lessons with Mrs Drury, Mrs Garlic and Mrs Pennock. I still use the recipe books today and thought I would share them with people online. Please try them out and let me know what you think.

Savoury Layer Potatoes

Ingredients

1lb potatoes

1 onion

1oz butter/margarine

salt+pepper

1/4 pt of milk/stock

OR miss out milk and add 4 tomatoes or 4oz of cheese or both. The onion can be missed out.

You will neeed a dish and lid or foil for the oven.

Oven - 190 c for 90 minutes or use your microwave, I use it for 20 minutes at full power (800 watt microwave.)

Method

1) Oven on, grease dish.

2) Peel and slice potatoes and onion.

3) Layer ingredients in dish with slat and pepper (add milk if used).

4) Dot with butter, cover and bake.

This is nice on its own or with sausage, bacon or baked beans or even all three.

Noddy

Image courtesy of: http://www.wmc.org.uk/htmlarea3/clientImages/NEWSHOWS20OCT/noddy_main.jpg

My little lad is obsessed with Noddy. He reads Noddy, watches Noddy on T.V and video, wears a hat his Nana knitted him which is blue and has a jingly bell. He has Noddy cars, soft Noddy toys and if given the chance, talks about nothing else.

He is not the only child to develop a craze about a fictional character, but it proves that Enid Blyton wrote children's books that have lasted the course of time. It is rather sad that Golliwogs were removed on the assumption (by the politically daft mob) that they were racist. I never associated them with black people, I always thought they were another soft toy like a teddy bear.They have left the main characters in, of course, but I have noticed Big Ears is appearing less than he used to on the T.V show and Mr Sparks the mechanic has been replaced by a robot. Shame.

On a more positive note Noddy has got some really good new vehicles including a monster truck and submarine. May it never leave the T.V screen.

Have a look at:

http://www.thetoyreview.com/wiki/Noddy#The_History_of_Noddy, http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/noddy.php

Alternative Source of Power for Tractors

Found this article about Allis Chalmers' prototype for alernative fuel source for tractors. Click on the link, they were ahead of their time.

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/03/08/114624/fuel-cell-tractors-allis-chalmers-was-there-years-ago.html

Bransdale

Bransdale in North Yorkshire may appear to some as being a wild, featureless wasteland. I beg to differ.

The air is clean, the people are few and friendly. The views are amazing. The church is thirteenth century.

Keep checking this blog for some more photos of this beautiful area as the year progresses.

Henry Jenkins and Morris Minors

Henry Jenkins, late of Ellerton-On Swale, reputedly lived to be 169. Honest. Here are photographs of his memorial in Bolton-on-Swale churchyard, and the poem on the wall inside St Mary's Church. Here is a link from the Northern Echo http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2002/3/2/144076.html . Genuki also has published an excellent piece about him here:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Boltononswale/Boltononswale90.html

Also spotted this lovely Moggie in Sandhutton. There's just something about old cars, especially an old British car from an era long past. They look more robust than modern cars, and surely their existence is proof of this. Eat your heart out Nissan, you'll never make cars like these.

Introduction

Well what can I say?

I live in England and most of the populace are in shock because it is winter and it has snowed.

Well what do you expect? A heatwave? As someone said on BBC Radio 2 last week, its a good job Hitler didn't drop snow on us, otherwise we would have lost the war.

Come on Britain get a grip, some areas of Canada have snow for months and they manage ok.

I'm not sure which direction this blog will take as I have so many interests, but I guarantee it won't be boring. I love my music and history, and of course, tractors.