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  • 78 of 78 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 debmercury

    Member since 17/02/2008

    Reviews written: 72

    4 Stars Chocolate bread pudding with yummy chocolate sauce 10/01/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Delicious and fairly healthy

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Chocolate bread pudding with yummy chocolate sauce Serves: 4 Preparation: 20 minutes preparation, 1-2 hours soaking and cooking for 40 minutes. This is a delicious dessert and one of my favorite recipes, if you use skimmed milk and sweetener it's fairly healthy if eaten in moderation it is also cheap to make. Ingredients 6 slices white or brown bread, crusts removed and cut into squares Half teaspoon margarine 600ml (1 pint) skimmed milk (semi or whole milk can be used) 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 2 eggs 25g (1oz) dark or light muscovado sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence Icing sugar ... more
  • 113 of 113 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 marymoose99

    Member since 15/11/2006

    Reviews written: 171

    4 Stars A rant, a pumpkin pie, and an apple strudel! 05/11/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages The pie and the strudel recipes!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I do go on a bit as ever!

    §§§Mary introduction/waffle§§§ It was 10th October when the first child came round begging - sorry, I mean 'trick or treating'. Following this I locked the door, and kept it locked (except of course when leaving and entering the house) until it was all over. Since our friends all live in other towns (and would phone before coming round), it's not necessary for us to open the door - it's only ever Jehovah's Witnesses, children wanting my money, or the wheelie fresh man (who I've paid off for another year for hosing down our wheelie bin). As a child my friends talked of trick or treating. As a ... more
  • 64 of 64 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    fabfrog5

    5 Stars Bread n' butter Pud! Review with images 09/02/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Delicious hot or cold and lasts a few days.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Fatty!

    Bread and Butter Pudding Another one of my childhood favourites. My mother would quite happily leave me to make this dish on my own as a child! This pudding is so very easy to make and can be eaten hot or cold, with custard or on its own. I enjoy it on its own! It's very filling and fattening but lovely! I don't actually know the history of this dish but it is excellent for finishing off a loaf of bread that might otherwise be wasted. *Suitable for vegetarians (depending on what butter is used) but not recommended for people who avoid dairy or eggs. Also, if you have a nut allergy you can ... more
  • 75 of 75 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 RICHADA

    Member since 20/06/2004

    Reviews written: 241

    5 Stars A PIE, A CRUMBLE? NO, KRUCHE CIASTO ZE SLIWKAMI. Review with images 24/08/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It looks and tastes wonderful!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Probably will not help your diet or my cholesterol level!

    Not my usual style of review this, so if I make a complete lash of it, please forgive! If the above title means nothing to you, and as this is a Polish recipe why should it, then what you are about to bake here is a plum crumble pie. It is many years since I last read a recipe book of any sort! Writing one, having attempted to put this one recipe onto Word is obviously way beyond my capabilities! My wife, however tells me that this is so easy to make that even I could do it! This "review" is dedicated to jo145, who suggested my publishing it last Sunday, following my casual remark that ... more
  • 104 of 104 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 arnoldhenryrufus

    Member since 08/07/2005

    Reviews written: 137

    4 Stars Treat yourself and still loose weight 18/01/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Low Fat so you can still enjoy whilst dieting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    ~~RECIPES - FOR THE SWEET TOOTHED DIETER~~ I have wrote down a couple of recipes that helped me when I have dieted in the past, believe me, I was very successful at loosing weight on the occasions I put my mind to it, I lost 6 stone on both occasions with Weight Watchers and 4 stone on the one occasion I went with Slimming World, unfortunately I am one of natures yo-yo dieters and once I stop dieting the weight creeps back on. I am 44yrs old now and have done a few diets during my life. The one I am starting now has to be my last, so my doctor tells me, I have to loose the weight and keep it ... more
  • 101 of 101 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mizzjasmine

    5 Stars Mm Mm And Mmm: Brownies 09/09/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Chocolate

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Walnuts

    I have worked longish and hardish at becoming the chocolate brownie queen. I used to be a relationship with a lying scumbag who said that he would do all the cooking in exchange for never having to use the washing machine, which I thought was all fair and equal and agreeable to my feminist self. My idea of an exotic gourmet meal is stew, which was taught to me mere weeks ago. As it turns out, as it does with lying scumbags, the scumbag's idea of breakfast/lunch/snack/posh dinner party/someone's birthday/barbecue was rice. he would bore me for more hours than I care to remember with daily ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Zahoori

    5 Stars DESERTS FOR ALL THE SEASONS, Review with images 16/09/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages 100% DELICIOUS!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages SOMETIMES WE'RE JUST TOO LAZY TO MAKE THEM OURSELVES!

    DESERTS FOR ALL SEASONS, INCLUDING; SUMMER, SPRING, AUTUMN AND WINTER . SPRING DESSERTS: BLACKCURRANT ICE CREAM: SERVES: 6 PREPERATION AND COOKING: 25 minutes plus cooling and 2-3 hours freezing INGREDIENTS: 8oz (225g) blackcurrants 4oz (125g) caster sugar 2 tablespoons water 3 tablespoons creme de cassis 4 eggs, seperated 1/2 pint (300ml) double or whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks crisp biscuits to serve DIRECTIONS: put the blackcurrants in a pan with the sugar and water. bring to the boil, then simmer until the fruit is soft. press through a sieve to make a thick puree. cool and add the ... more
  • 35 of 35 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 just.bcoz

    Member since 09/07/2007

    Reviews written: 227

    5 Stars Grannies Clootie Dumpling Review with images 26/10/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages really easy to make

    Disadvantages Disadvantages unwrapping the cloth is fiddly and annoying

    My gran always used to make a clootie dumpling every sunday for dessert, then she passed the recepie to my mum and now I am making it. Although for some strange reason mines doesn't taste as good as grannies or mums, and I follow the recepie and directions exactly. Gran and mum used to serve the Clootie Dumpling hot with custard or you could eat it cold spread with butter, either way it tastes delicious. A clootie Dumpling is a pudding made up with mainly with flour, currants, raisins and spices and wrapped in a wet floured cloth and boiled in a large saucepan for a few hours. Clootie Dumpling ... more
  • 16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 SweetTooth93

    Member since 22/01/2008

    Reviews written: 151

    5 Stars Desserts for everybodys tastes 21/02/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Yummy

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Probs laden with calories

    Take a look at my username. Looked? Good. Well then, my user name may give a slight insight into my personality, yes, I have a very very sweet tooth. If you have read any of my other reviews, you will realise they are on mostly food products, but after a full weekend of baking last weekend I thought i'd share some of my favourite recipes with you. Now, when I go to a dinner party, to somebodys house for tea, or out for my tea, the dessert is always the thing I remember- usually, if it's good. My family is big on puddings and desserts and our household has one almost every night. In my review ... more
  • 47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cladach29

    5 Stars Warming Winter Pud from the Microwave 07/11/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Warming, comforting, quick, psychologically beneficial

    Disadvantages Disadvantages High calorie count!

    When I was a child there was one dish which I used to BEG my mum to make whenever winter came round. At the time it seemed to me that she only made it once per year (although she denies this and says that it was at least 3 or 4 times). The dish in question was treacle sponge pudding and given that it had to be steamed in a pudding basin I can understand her reluctance to make it: anyone who has ever made a pudding this way will know that it takes a fair amount of preparation. Since the advent of the microwave oven however, this dessert is no longer the arduous ordeal to prepare that it once ... more
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