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It might be that the temperature recommended in the recipe is too high - they do get things wrong, and the transition between soft and hard ball fudge is quite fine . You could try cutting it by 5°C and see what happens. If it doesn't set, at least you'll have a nice sauce for ice cream!

Made target weight. I can start eating a modest number of peanuts.

Excellent! Pleased it worked for you.

I can muliti-task: I can walk around AND breath at the same time.

Ask people to "like" it, which I have.

(And do feel free to "like" https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vend%C3% ... 18?fref=ts - I've not been updating lately, but I will be starting again now that we are heading into our season.)

I regard food growing as a small declaration of independence and a form of homage to God / Nature (delete as your taste suits) plus I can grow stuff that I cannot easily buy (curious varieties of tomato and so forth).

Welcome, by the way.

The reason that you cannot find a recipe is that you are realms of the imprecise! Traditionally, if you can float a fresh egg in the lye so that at least one inch is showing above the liquid, then you have the desired concentration. Then you combine 200g of lard with one litre of the lye to make the...

Skippy - no idea why you can see only the wallpaper on that site: browser, perhaps?

Tony - that is nice and it just goes to show what can be done DIY.

Thanks for the replies. On the points raised: - Wood is not wildly expensive here, and I imagine that painted white they would reflect light, which would help to an extent with the shading. For the size I'm thinking of I'd add a central pillar too. - Agree about the metal sheets. I'd use wood or at ...

I've always wanted a greenhouse. I know poly tunnels are very practical and efficient, but I want a greenhouse because I like them. Unhappily, a decent sized, decent quality, greenhouse would appear to cost in the region of €3000. That I do not have. What I have found is plans that would allow me - ...

Is this safe? New member links always look a bit dodgey! I had a look and my pooter did not explode. Why do people always have to direct you to their own blogs which then bombard you with adverts for this and that, I think this person is just a self promoter with no interest in the forum other than...

Now we've got a bit better at industrial agriculture, but we still haven't done enough work to understand how what we are doing in the fields is impacting human health. We see an epidemic of obesity in the West, a rise in all kinds of allergies, food intolerances and some cancers and we're still de...

The business of fixing nitrogen via the Haber process was made imperative by war - there was simply no way that enough explosive could be made by other methods. During peacetime it rather became a technology looking for an application, which, happily, farming provided. The problem was that it was as...

5.It's the natural way to grow food......'We plant the seed,nature grows the seed'', etc. etc. ps. Your bike's in the bath. That too. I like to think of well-managed pasture, with a mix of various grasses and herbs, as a sort of natural chemical plant. Legumes fix nitrogen to be taken up by the gra...

I would agree with Flo, except for the bit about: "There is no value in manure other than it is a soil improver. It will rot down and then you can turn it in but you will still have to use fertilisers to feed whatever crops you plant next year." The fertiliser value of all manures varies a...