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Mincemeat slices
Half a jar of mincemeat left over from Christmas? Here’s an easy way to use it up.
Ingredients
4oz butter or marg
4oz white sugar
1 egg
dessert spoon of plain yoghurt
6oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
some mincemeat
Method
Grease and line two loaf tins, or two foil trays you have left over from ready meals, or one 8- or 9-inch square tin. Put oven on at 180C (160C fan,...
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December 2012
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November 2012
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Easy 1x1 tubular cast-on
A tubular cast-on gives an exceptionally neat, and rather stretchy, cast-on edge for ribbing. There are lots of ways of doing it, see for example http://techknitting.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/provisional-tail-method-of-1-x-1.html for 1x1 ribbing examples (there are ways of doing a tubular cast-on for 2x2 ribbing, too).
I picked up the method detailed below from a free Regia sock-knitting leaflet...
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October 2012
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“Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and...”
– - Elizabeth Zimmermann
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