I’m definitely going bonkers - or pre-senile?!

years ago my late mother had an aga style cooker with a slow oven part. she was classic at putting things in the slow oven and forgetting them! either that or she would put the food in the normal oven then leave them! I recall clearly the charcoaled roast potatoes found 3 days after the Sunday lunch! Or the rice pudding left in the slow oven for a good week!

I was annoyed last week after the big storm to find my container of cyclamen had vanished from the front. I searched down the park but gave up as the wind had been so strong.
A few days later I found it in the greenhouse where I had put it for safety after the previous storm.

Witzend Can we exchange recipes?

I'll give you my mum's Tea Bread recipe (without eggs) for your Barm Brack recipe.

Thank you! in the midst of a rather stressful week (been awake since 3.30am) this made me laugh out loud!!

My mum once added salt to a cake instead of sugar - because someone had refilled the wrong containers....

I once made toffee instead of fudge because I left some key ingredients out.

Recently I cooked a lovely main dish and after an hour I turned the oven off. I was due to take the dish to a friend so left it to cool. 4 hours later I came to take the dinner out of the oven. It was a blackened mess. I had turned the oven dial the wrong way to MAX!

I discovered this morning that the chilli powder I put in my porridge does not taste nearly as good as my usual cinnamon !

I just stopped myself pouring boiling water into the sugar bowl instead of the mug this morning! I need a break from Christmas preparations and soon!!