Day Six - Thursday - Breakfast, Lunch & Tea

A fairly short post today - I shall write about Thursday's dinner in my next post, but will cover the daylight hours here...

Breakfast:  Porridge with Baked Pears

Yes, I am shamelessly reusing the photo from Monday.  I made new porridge for Thursday morning's breakfast, but we did use up the last of the pears that were baked on the weekend.

Lunch:  Ham, Cheese & Watercress Sandwiches

I also added mustard for those who wanted it.  Simple, but a nice portable lunch (Husband and Daughter were both out of the house at lunch time on this day).  

After I ate my lunch, I turned my attention to making something for tea, as I knew it would take a few hours for the dough to prove.

Tea:  Currant Buns

This is another recipe from Mrs Beeton.  It is actually entitled "Plain Buns", but she notes that "These buns may be varied by adding a few currants, candied peel, or caraway seeds to the other ingredients".  So I decided to add "a few" currants.

Honestly, these looked nice, and the dough did work properly, but they were indeed quite plain, even with the currants.  Maybe I should have added more?  Or some candied peel as well?  At any rate, whilst these were fine, I don't think they were worth the time and effort it takes to make them.  I won't be bothering with these again, and I am quite pleased that I divided the recipe by three (as written, it makes eighteen buns, so we do have three left over - I figured we could have them with breakfast the next day).

Thank you for your patience, anyone who is still reading this!  I shall post about Thursday's dinner tomorrow, but for now, good night.