Happy memories, John! I remember baking almond macaroons and gingerbread for the picnic. The weather wasn't very Blytonian but there was plenty of Blytonian feasting and banter!
IceMaiden wrote: ↑20 May 2023, 14:30
Anita Bensoussane wrote: ↑02 May 2023, 09:19"Quite right - food is expensive just now - so you can go out this afternoon and buy a meat pie from the cookie-shop.
What is a cookie-shop? Surely it doesn't mean a cookie as in the chocolate chip/ biscuit sort? Was there even such a thing as a biscuit shop or was it another name for a sweet shop?
I took "cookie-shop" to be a colloquial term for a baker's shop, though I could be wrong.
IceMaiden wrote: ↑20 May 2023, 14:30I didn't know curds and whey was the same as junket either. What's the difference between those and a milk jelly then I wonder? Maybe something along these lines is what Sid's chocolate mould was too.
I imagine chocolate mould to be similar to a chocolate mousse, set in a mould, but I don't know for certain.
Edit: Just found a recipe for old-fashioned honeycomb mould. I expect chocolate mould would have been quite similar, but with cocoa powder or melted chocolate (and perhaps no lemon zest or juice)?
https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/int ... comb-mould