Kid-free day

Catherine is having her traditional school holiday visit with her God-mother. I've been doing stuff.
Making a jumper at the moment. It's from the Lionbrand website. 1000's of quality free patterns, found here.

Also got around to starching the doilies I made a while ago. They take a couple of days to dry. To make starch just boil a tablespoon of cornflour with about 2 cups of water.

Went and bought some seedlings for the garden....

which I spent the day preparing the garden bed for.

And came up with a recipe to get through the masses of rubbarb we have in our garden.

(It's really just a cherry slice I changed a bit, from an Alison Holst recipe).

Here it is:

BASE:

2 cups of flour

1/2 cup sugar

200g melted butter

Mix this together, spread onto a tin and cook at 350 degrees F. for 15 mins.

FILLING:

10 large stalks of rubbarb

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

Boil this untill soft and spread over cooked base

TOPPING:

1 1/2 cups desiccated coconut

1/2 cup rolled oats

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup flour

50 g melted butter

2 eggs

1/4 teaspoon almond essence

1/2 tsp mixed spice

Spoon this over the top of the mixture using 2 spoons, and flatten with a fork.

Bake at 350 degrees F. or 180 degrees C. for 20-30 mins.

Scrummy as!