Food Guide
FEED BELLIES NOT BINS
BAKE LIKE GRANDMA
The Real Junk Food Project Doncaster Every Friday 3.00pm -7.00pm Hallcross Pub, Hallgate Doncaster.
Celebrate in style with Yorkshire Christmas Baking
We often meet long and short term sanctioned at our cafe, everyone is always grateful for a sit down and a hot meal and to be served along with our other customers. We often hear “It’s nice to be treated like a normal human being here” “It’s made my day I feel good”. Being a Pay As You Feel cafe means that sometimes people leave the pennies they can spare, or they wash up for a bit, some people help out regularly every week and become volunteers. Sometimes people don’t contribute anything, that is OK too. Often we see people who have become used to being treated differently, thinking of themselves as ‘less than’ not even questioning it. Sometimes you see their humanity come back, they stop snatching food from the Pay As You Feel Food Boutique and order something to eat, take their time and chat to you, kiss you on the cheek. Volunteers Gina and Pete took our food stall to our local job centre and Pete goes most Monday mornings to hand out food and leaflets. This action was spurred when Tony Cox a lecturer at Dundee University was arrested for acting as an advocate in a Job Centre. Gina wrote a poem following piece inspired by Mark Woods who was sanctioned and tragically starved to death. Learning more about Mark we found out: ‘Mark, who died tragically in 2013 at the age of 44, was a prolific artist in many media: photography, poetry and short story-writing, painting, cartoon creation, and music composition. His theme was the wonder of nature and his passionate concern to prevent its destruction. He had a heightened awareness of the fragility of the earth and its web of life and sought to express this through his art. He was not a trained professional in any genre but his work manages to convey his deep sensibility.’ There are many Marks out there at this moment in time. If you know of anyone struggling to get by the Real Junk Food Project Doncaster provides Pay As You Feel Meals for anyone in need of a delicious hot meal. Follow-us on Facebook and Twitter: @ T R JFP Don c aste r facebook.com/TheRealJunkFoodProjectDoncaster Fiona Cahill
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Yorkshire just has to be the best place to celebrate the traditional festivities as we just know how to ‘do’ Christmas in style and in Doncaster we are so very lucky to ‘#shoplocal’ in our fantastic award winning market. There’s everything you need to produce a special culinary feast with pork pies, cheese, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables as well as every ingredient to bake those traditional seasonal delights. I love to bake Grandma’s Christmas favourites from her mouth watering homemade Mincemeat, Cranberry Chutney, Plum (Christmas) Pudding, Christmas Cake Shortbread and the more unusual Boxing Day Cake and treats to make brilliant homemade gifts. Here’s a light sponge cake, full of contrasting flavours in Grandma’s style, with cranberries, orange and pistachios. I bake it in a loaf tin so it’s easy to slice. I can guarantee there won’t be a piece left! Cranberry, Orange & Pistachio Cake 175g/6 oz butter 150g/5 oz caster sugar 3 eggs 175g/6oz self raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 4½oz/125g fresh cranberries (or you can use dried) 50g/2oz pistachio nuts (chopped) Zest and juice of 1 orange 25g/1oz demerara sugar to sprinkle Pre heat the oven to 180C (160Fan), Mark 4. Cream the butter, sugar, orange zest until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Fold in the flour and baking powder. Fold in 2/3rds of the cranberries and pistachios. Put into a well greased or lined loaf tin and top the mixture with the remaining cranberries and pistachios. Sprinkle the top with demerara sugar. Bake in the oven for 30- 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack. Pierce the loaf on the top with a fork and drizzle the cake with the orange juice so that it runs into the cake. Discover delectable recipes in Grandma Abson’s Traditional Baking by Meryl White, available online atypdbooks.com . Meryl delivers popular talks and demonstrations about her Grandma’s legacy of baking and the Great British tradition of Afternoon tea. For more details visit grandmaabson.com