New Years Eve

We would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year and good luck with your gardening for 2010.

Wednesday

Here’s a recipe for a Victoria Sponge which could well be the recipe we will use for next year’s show.

Recipe for Victoria Sponge

Ingredients
100g (4oz) butter, softened
100g (4oz) caster sugar
2 eggs
100g (4oz) self raising flour, sifted
45ml (2 tbsp) strawberry jam
Icing sugar, sifted
Method
1. Prepare two 18cm (7inch) sandwich
tins
2. Cream butter and sugar together
until very pale in colour, light in
texture and fluffy
3. Beat in eggs, one at a time, adding
15ml (1 tbsp) fl our with each
4. Gently fold in remaining fl our with a
metal spoon
5. Transfer to prepared tins and
smooth tops with a knife.
6. Bake at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for 25
- 30 minutes, or until well risen,
golden brown and firm
7. Leave in tins for 2 - 3 minutes. Turn
out on to a wire cooling rack
8. When cold sandwich together with
strawberry jam 
9. Dust cake with icing sugar
There was some talk after this years show whether or not a Victoria Sponge should have cream in it. We’re not sure yet what the final recipe will be, but here’s one for butter cream which is likely to be the filling to be used along with jam. No decision will be made yet so please let us Know what you think.

Butter Cream Recipe
Ingredients
50g (2oz) butter, softened
115g (4oz) icing sugar, sifted
15ml (1 tbsp) fresh milk
few drops of vanilla essence
Method
1. Beat butter until soft
2. Gradually beat in sugar and milk
3. Continue beating until light and
fluffy
4. Stir in vanilla, chill until a little
thicker

Christmas Eve

The Skeheenarinky Flower and Vegetable Show would like to extend their best wishes to everyone who in any way took part in helping to make our first flower show such a success.

We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and and a Happy New year and we look forward to seeing you all again at our next show in 2010!

Get digging!!

Monday

It was decided at the last management meeting of the Flower Show Committee to provisionally set the dates for the 2010 Show.
The Show will be held on Saturday 14th August 2010 hopefully at the same venue as this years show. The Social Evening will be held on Saturday 31st July 2010 at Jacksons Pub.
These dates will be finalised at the first Show Committee Meeting in the New Year in February.
We also hope to review the Exhibit Classes and Sections for next years show to give everyone time to start planning what to grow so watch this space………….

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