![]() ![]() You could serve slightly warmed with ice cream or whipped cream, neither of which I had. Once the pie has cooled properly, drizzle with icing. I put mine in a bottle to make it easier to squeeze onto the pie. Once done it should look like a slightly less bronzed version of this….Īnywho, combine the icing sugar and juice to form some thick but pourable icing. Pop in the oven for half an hour or so, check and then continue for 5 or 10 mins if needed. Pour over the mixture and let it level out. Making sure you have squeezed out as much juice as is practicable from the apricots, place them into the pie case. ![]() You could at this point, if you wanted a slightly cakier texture, add some more almonds, or some flour. Of course I didn’t so it just kept turning into a ball of sugary butter that avoided the processor blades as soon as it could.Įventually however it went pale and fluffy, so I added the eggs, ground almonds and extract and whizzed for a min, to combine. Now the trick to doing this in a food processor is to get the butter really soft. Using a food processor (or bowl and spoon), combine the caster sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Prick the surface with a fork and set aside. (You know when they state ‘tested in our kitchen’ that kind of guarantees it hasn’t been). I mean who cooks something like this for nearly an hour? It’s a pie not turkey. So when it says 170 centigrade for a fan oven I should have set it to 160 centigrade (but I didn’t) and when it says cook for 45 to 50 mins it won’t take more than 35 mins. Now after several years I have realised that our oven runs hot. If you want to be really lazy then get some ready-rolled pastry. At least 2 tbsp apricot juice from the tin.2 tins of apricot halves in juice, drained (reserve the juice) and dried with lots of kitchen towel.3oz ground almonds, plus extra for sprinkling on the pastry before cooking (helps the pastry from getting soggy from the apricots).1 pack ready-made sweet shortcrust pastry (if you want to make your own, good for you).A loose-bottomed pie dish 22cm to 28 cm across.It might have done with more ground almonds or some flour in the mix, but who am I to argue with the Queen of Soggy Bottoms?įor Mary Berry’s Apricot Frangipane Tart you will need Not unpleasant at all but more pudding than tart. I thought it would be a bit like a Bakewell Tart with apricots but the texture was more like a quiche. Now this is one of ‘Mary Berry’s Favourites’. Come on, wild garlic) but they also do really good things. They do spend a bit too much time messing around with foods you’ll never try (like most recently wild garlic. Now they aren’t messing around with websites. Still awake? Looking for some food? How about this. It’s got big pictures and large areas of white space. A vanilla news website which seems oddly devoid of news. ‘Excellent! Pour the champagne and give yourself a pay rise.’ It’ll look crap because it will have much less content, but it’ll be super cheap to run.’ We’ll create one website that works across any device. ‘Well how are we going to afford our inclusive diversity training weekends at Gleneagles?’ You can imagine them sitting in their very expensive new offices in Manchester sweating it out. So the BBC is trying to shrink into the background. Even Sky hasn’t managed to pull that trick (although you know they wish they could). We have to pay it even if we don’t watch it. Before commercial channels with advertising and of course well before cable or satellite subscriptions.īut now, in the brave new world of dog-eat-dog, the license fee is under threat. Over here everyone who has a TV has to pay the BBC a license fee. But people know better than to view lots of videos on the move because it uses up the battery and their network credit. ![]() They say it’s because most people view the BBC site on phones and tablets. It’s like its designed for people who don’t read the news. But now they seem to have employed a 21 year old to redesign the site so that it feels like you are looking at….well I’m not sure. The BBC website used to just tell you what was going on in reasonably impartial terms (not bad for a leftie organisation). What the hell has happened to the BBC news website? It’s my go-to primary source of news (If, on the other hand, I want non-news I wind myself up by reading about the latest shenanigans relating to Kim Kardashian on the Daily Mail Online). ![]()
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