Is it fading away?

Rock bun recipe is 8 oz flour, 3 oz sugar, 3 oz sugar, I egg, some milk, 3 or 4 oz sultanas, all mixed together and plonked in heaps on a baking sheet lined with greaseproof, baked 15 mins at about 200C. G&T.

This time I put tablespoonfuls into 12 paper cases in a bun tin - just as quick, saved fiddling about with the greaseproof and they came out much neater. They taste the same and vanish just as fast.

For one of those "3 oz sugar", read 3 oz marge (or the Lurpack Lighter I bought by mistake - horrible on toast, but OK for cakes)

I have copied and saved that, might try to surprise Mrs P next time she goes out.

The amount of milk in inexact, it is as much as will make it possible to mix it all together without it all getting sloppy - it should be fairly thick (avoided typing fairly stiff there in case anyone was )

I've found GN to be very useful over the past few weeks. I've found it so helpful that I'm not alone and that so many others feel the same as me. I've been genuinely so distressed over the brexit situation and the hellish situation that we're in that GN has been a reassuring presence for me. Some posters put what I'm thinking and feeling so articulately that I've really appreciated. There are indeed well informed and deep thinkers here and I'm glad of it.
I've just not felt in the mood to look at the more frivolous threads.

Is that recipe the same as your rock cakes?

While I'm on I can endorse Elegran's rock buns.

The teenager next door sometimes does a spot of gardening for me. The remuneration always includes a few rock buns (A few! He could wolf the lot)

Elegran is that SR flour or plain? Thanks!

SR flour, Minimouse

We need a mug and a teatowel - "Keep calm and bake a bun"

Thank you, Elegran

Yes that is very similar, Mrs Ps recipe uses 4oz marg. but exactly the same otherwise.

Gransnet is really, really boring without Politics.

I've thoroughly enjoyed all the politicking - learnt a lot, too. Masses of informed comments and links. Find I slide over the irritations and get to the meat of opinions.

I don't like rock buns. We used to make them in Cookery at school and I think I associate them with that.

Before anyone accuses me of being spiteful, I'm sorry Elegran

Elegran, my granny's piece de resistance was rock buns and I thought that they were made with rocks which might as well have been the case. I don't think I've had one since I was about 4.

I've just spent the afternoon in an air raid shelter. Met a lovely old chap who as a child of 7 was packed off to the countryside as an evacuee. He came home a month later as he couldn't cope with all the greenery! He described spending a fortnight in an Anderson shelter as the bombing was so intense his family couldn't risk staying in the house. When it rained they were knee deep in water. Food was scarce and the house behind theirs took a direct hit killing the family who lived there. That was Birmingham 1940. Puts things into perspective I think.

MM, can I have your buns ?

I quite like the political threads, but the often go on and on, and just repeat themselves. Also, they can bring out the worst when passions get inflamed.

As you say, I have learnt a lot from some of them, but I do get bored after a while. Give me a virtual engine to strip and re-build, you know where you are with grease & muck.

Please don't let it all descend into the banal, been really interesting lately and some new posters.
Turbulent times at present so there are sure to be differences of opinion.

DH has just been waxing lyrical about rock cakes, his mother used to make them by the ton. I stopped liking them when we had to make them in cookery lessons.
DH has now started asking if I have the recipe for his mother's bread, she taught me how to make it when she stayed with us for a couple of months. She was of a mind for me to bake fresh bread every day along with all the other things I had to do when the DC were tiny. I still had a twin tub and no dryer, no microwave in those days either. Come to think of it I actually fancy a bit of oven bottom cake, as she used to call the bread. For north easterners the nearest equivalent is stottie cake

OH kept on and on at me to make a bread pudding with his old Mums recipe, I make my own recipe but he reckoned of course that it wasn't the same. So his sister e-mailed it to me oh my goodness it was a whole loaf of white bread with a 1lb of lard, sugar, milk and currants it sounded disgusting so I cheated and made a version of my own recipe, when he tried some he said 'just like me Mums'

Lard?! ?

GandTea, you certainly can have my share of the buns, and welcome to them. I am having some of these instead.

I wouldn't mind some of that bread and butter pudding though, tanith, if there's any to spare. Hold the lard though, please.

Now before I go, I'd better apologise for being banal. Sorry, Christinefrance .

You can't do right for doing wrong on here

My MIL, used to make a mean bread pudding, Mrs P has never mastered her mum's recipe.