My friend Sarah is awesome. I’ve known her since I was 11, when we were united through a shared love of Friends and Oasis and although we rarely see each other, she’s one of the people I’d really miss if I ever did the unthinkable and quit Facebook. Amazingly, she seems to be one of only a small bunch of girls from our school who is a dyed-in-the-wool Leftie, although not really that amazingly since we went to a particularly snotty all-girls grammar school, populated mostly by girls from upper-middle-class-pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you types. Also, not all that amazingly because Sarah was raised by her Mum, Pat, who is about as awesome and righteous as it gets and so she was bound to turn out pretty bloody brilliant.
Since the news broke that the Tories would be dictating to us all again for the next 5 years, it’s become apparent that there are several brands who are big donors to the Conservative party and now loads of people have decided to boycott those brands, one of which being Soreen, as revealed in an article in The Mirror a couple of months ago.
Anyway, being the super amazing lady that she is, Mummy Pat has decided that she won’t be buying oppressive patriarchal malt loaf anymore and has allowed me to share her recipe for homemade malt loaf which, as a bonus, won’t try to strip you of your human rights. Here’s the recipe:
- 1 MUG ALL BRAN
- 1 MUG SULTANAS
- 1 MUG SUGAR
- 1 MUG MILK
- 1 EGG
- 1 TEASPOON MIXED SPICE
- Add all of the ingredients to a LARGE bowl as the mixture swells
- Leave overnight, covered with a plate or tea towel
- When ready to cook, place mixture in a lined loaf tin
- Cook in the centre of an oven, preheated to gas mark 3/140 Fan Oven/160 Conventional Oven for around 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean when poked into the middle
- Leave to cool and enjoy with lashings and lashings of butter
Eat and enjoy, safe in the knowledge that you won’t be contributing to the Tory coffers! Thanks Pat!
this really has made me giggle