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Chocolate and beetroot cake

Ingredients
100g drinking chocolate
230g self-raising flour
200g golden caster sugar
100g dark chocolate, minimum 60% cocoa solids broken into pieces.
125g unsalted butter
250g cooked beetroot
3 large eggs

Preheat oven to 180 C / gas 4. Butter and flour a 18cm (7in) round cake tin.

Sift flour and drinking chocolate together in a bowl, then stir in the sugar.

In a bowl suspended over a bowl of hot water melt the chocolate and butter.

Puree the beetroot, add eggs and mix well.

Eventually add the beetroot mix to the dry ingredients and mix well.

Pour the mix into the prepared tin and bake for 50 mins until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool in tin for ten minutes.

Decorate by dusting with icing sugar or it is delicious served warm with custard.

For a healthier option serve with creme fraiche.

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Chocolate Almond Cake

Ingredients
200g high quality plain chocolate
125g butter, softened
125g caster sugar
4 eggs, separated
200g peeled and finely ground almonds

Break the chocolate into pieces in a bowl and set the bowl over simmering water to melt the chocolate, stirring occasionaly.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Separate the eggs, and add the yolks to the butter mixture together with the ground almonds and melted chocolate. Mix well to combine.

Whisk the egg whites until stiff and add to the batter, mixing gently.

Put the batter into a 20cm round tin, and bake in a preheated oven at 180 C / Gas 4 for about 20 minutes or until done.

Cool in the tin for about 15 minutes before inverting onto a plate.

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just for a change from Carrot Cake

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Don’t Stop Believing Journey lyrics

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You’ve heard the expressions “stinking drunk” and “stinko” (“stinking” has been used in English to express disgust since the 15th century). No creature alive is stinkier than a skunk. Because “skunk” rhymes with “drunk,” the two words are a natural match.
The term “drunk as a skunk” is, as you guessed, simply a good example of our love of comparisons and rhyming, made especially popular by the fact that “skunk” happens to be one of the few words that rhymes with “drunk.” Similar, albeit non-rhyming, terms for “extremely drunk” have included, over the years, drunk as a fly, a log, a dog, a loon, a poet, a billy goat, a broom, a bat, a badger, a boiled owl, and several dozen more too risqu? to list here. Although comparative terms for drunkenness have been popular throughout the history of English, “drunk as a skunk” seems to be a fairly recent (20th century) addition to the canon.

The ability of our friend the skunk to douse its enemies with foul-smelling musk has, however, made “skunk” a slang term of derogation in other senses. “Skunk” has, since the early 19th century, been slang for “a contemptible or untrustworthy person,” as in “That little skunk told us to buy Enron stock while he was selling his own.” And because the odor of a skunk’s musk is strong enough to discourage even the bravest competitor, “to skunk” has, since the 1800s, meant “to emphatically, unequivocally defeat,” often used in situations where the losing party or team did not score a single point.

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PAY ON THE NAIL……..In the Middle Ages ‘nails’ were flat-topped columns in markets. When a buyer and a seller agreed a deal money was placed on the nail for all to see.

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zebra Crossing

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Keep it going Angelbabe some of us love reading it

thanks Blosom will do

Wonder where “talking out of your arse” originated from. Laughing

ive oftened wondered that myself :D

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MAD AS A HATTER…Some people say the phrase comes from the fact that in the 18th and 19th centuries hat makers used mercury nitrate in their work. Exposure to this chemical does indeed send you mad. .

However according to some people the origin of this phrase is much older. Hatter is a corruption of the Saxon word ‘atter’, which meant adder or viper. Furthermore ‘mad’ originally meant poisonous. So if you were mad as an atter you were as ‘poisonous’ (bad tempered or aggressive) as an atter (adder). It goes to show that often it is impossible to be certain where old sayings come from

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enjoying my cupppa tea on my morning off

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