Cookies!!!!

So today was busy. First to opticians to try and sort contacts. Bloody things feel like wearing grit. Sadly I cannot easily tolerate glasses. It seems my brain sees them as an obstacle to look around not through.
Then much chasing around music lessons etc.
But Wednesdays are cooking days. Today I did coq au vin, a blackberry and apple cobbler and oatmeal raisin and apricot cookies.

Coq au vin

You need a coq
Bottle of red wine
Good streaky bacon I got mine from the Rose Yard Butchery . It came from a hairy pig. Yum.
An onion
A bouquet garni
Butter
Flour.

Chop the onion and matchstick the bacon. Fry in butter until the onion colours. Fry the quartered chicken lightly then arrange legs at the bittom, breast on top. Tip the wine over, add the herbs and simmer on a low heat for 2.5 hrs. Thicken with beurre manie. Adjust seasoning. It probably wont need much.

Cobbler...

You need 2 bramley apples, 8oz caster sugar, 2 big handfulls blackberries, 3oz butter, 8oz sr flour, milk
Peelcore and chop apples. Put in an ovenproof dish with the blackberries and 5oz sugar. Bake 180c for 20 mins while you make the cobbles.
Rub the butter into the flour. Add remaining sugar. Bring together into a loose dough with milk. Roll or pat out on a floured surface, to about 1.5 cm depth. Cut shapes out and drop onto the fruit mix. Cook for another 20 mins till obviously nummy.

Coookiiiieees

100g butter
150g caster sugar
1 egg
140 plain flour
0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Breath of cinnamon
Vanilla essence
300g oats
100g raisins
100g chopped dried apricots

Oven 180c
Just cover fruit with boiling water. Leave to soak.
Cream fat and sugar,then beat in the egg. Add cinnamon and vanilla,  then flour. Then the oats. Add enough of the raisin water to make it a dough. Then add in the fruit. Put teaspoons on baking parchment and cook till golden

R