15/1/2019 0 Comments Pikelets which are easy and yumI can't even believe I haven't put this up. Seriously this is so easy. I learned to make them when i was little.
When I was in the primers I remember sitting on the mat. We had kinda woven plastic mats that if you started at long enough they'd get a 3D effect like those 1990s pictures, which i never bothered with because I'd done it all when I was five. Anyway I was on the mat and had a brainwave, which was we should have a club where we do crafts after school. So my club was shit because my Mum worked as a primary school teacher and who could be fucked dealing with little kids after a days teaching. All I can remember making was a lame-ass chicken out of a circle of yellow paper with an orange folded triangle for feet and an orange folded triangle for a beak and you drew and eye on it.. Maybe it was for easter. I was mortified because the crafts I had in mind were way cooler and elaborate, not just the shit stuff designed for the thickest kid in the class. Which actually thinking about it as I write this, could well be what that activity was. God were we just guinea pigs for a shit classroom activity. Anyway my club folded quick smart, but my friend Catherine (with the Yahtzee, which they still have) took it up, or rather her Mum did and it was awesome. Every week we made the coolest stuff like dolls house furniture, and I remember making a decorated box for mother's day. Now we were talking - that was the kinda shit I imagined. We (my family - not the club) went to Europe when I was nine for 5 months which was amazing, but I was quite gutted on my return to see they'd made a particularly fetching doll's bed with bolster cushion. My friend Dianne's was in emerald green and i was pretty jealous. We also developed a complex game called club-tiggy which only the select group could play because the rules were so complex. (Tiggy is from the Latin tetigi which is the perfect tense of tungere or touch - who knew we were so educated and sophisticated in 1970s South Auckland) When her Mum didn't have anything for us to make, we made pikelets or club-fudge (normal fudge with club in the name). That was pretty exciting and special, and I still make these today - thanks Mrs P!. Today I made them for lunch and the 16 year old asked why there was so few - it was because I'd fed me and guitarman first of course -so she made a second batch. Imagine if I'd called her from her room to make some. Actually don't imagine that, because it would not have been pretty. Pikelets
I wasn't sure where to put these. There should be a place called "I haven't been shopping and have an egg" but I haven't made that one yet. You could make this for a work shared thing but these are a bit dumb when they're cold. Though you could make them little and then put jam and cream and a tiny pansy on top. Sourcing the pansies would be the hard part for me. I could steal them from a council garden but that is frowned upon. Pansies are one of my favourite flowers. Along with Peonies and Lilies. Feel free to send some. Addendum: Do not add sultanas. Except Carol, who is cool except for her sultana fetish - you can add sultanas, but only if you eat up all the pikelets laden with butter in the privacy of your kitchen, or you're taking them to a rest home where sultanas are a treat.
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