October Newsletter
Welcome to our October newsletter. Please do encourage friends and neighbours to sign up to our monthly newsletter, you can forward this email and they can sign up HERE
PHOTO BY Tim French
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Huge thanks to all who came along and supported the Macmillan Coffee Morning, it raised a whopping £1138 for this very very worthwhile cause. It was so nice to see all the generations in attendance from babies to grannies. Thank you also to all of the volunteers, cake makers and raffle prize donators, we couldn’t do this event without you.
SHOP NEWS …….
A quick reminder Good Small Farms and Salt Bakehouse are on the forecourt on Tuesday morning from 10.30 -11.30. Please do support them and come and buy your seasonal fruit and vegetables and beautiful bread and pastries on a Tuesday morning on the forecourt. Don’t forget to ask Good Small Farms about their fabulous grass fed Hereford Beef which is available from their freezer.
We have teamed up with IronEasy to offer dry cleaning, shoe repairs, laundry and ironing as well as alterations and repairs. Because we always like to have a personal recommendation, we asked Rachel who is in charge of marketing and PR for the shop how it went when she dropped off her dry cleaning at the shop. She was delighted with the service and quality of the dry cleaning of her silk party dress.
Simply drop your items off at the shop. For more information pop in or check out their website http://ironeasy.biz/
I promised a number of people the recipe for a fail-safe sponge at the Macmillan coffee morning. This one is the basic one I have made for hundred of cow hunt cakes, birthday cakes and charity events. It is super easy and very adaptable for different flavours, all of the ingredients are available from the shop. You can easily double the recipe if you want to make a layered cake or Victoria sandwich.
125g of softened butter or baking margerine
125g of caster sugar
2 eggs
1tbs Greek yoghurt (or natural yoghurt)
2 eggs
130g self raising flour
Using an electric whisk, or stand mixer with the beater attachment, whisk the butter and sugar till soft and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat in between. Add the yoghurt and whisk again briefly, fold in the SR flour - you can sift it in if you like but I never bother! Scrape the mixture into an 8” loose bottomed sandwich tin and bake on a baking tray in a medium oven 160 ish! till golden and risen and a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin before decorating as you wish.
VARIATIONS
Replace 30g of flour with 30g cocoa and you have a chocolate cake, when its cool top with ganache made with dark chocolate melted with double cream.(about 50g choc and 1/3 cup of double cream)
Replace 50g flour with 50g ground almonds add a couple of drops of almond extract and a handful of glace cherries, top with flaked almonds before baking and you have cherry and almond cake.
Replace 50g of flour with 50g ground almonds, roughly chop a couple apples and toss in 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 heaped tbs of brown sugar and pile on top of the cake then bake it.
Add the zest of a lemon and the juice of half to your batter at the same time as the yoghurt. Squeeze the juice from the other half of the lemon and mix with a couple of teaspoons of sugar and drizzle it over the hot cake for lemon drizzle cake.
For a quick children’s birthday cake top it with icing sugar and lemon juice icing and top with sprinkles / hundreds and thousands.
CAFE NEWS …..
Are you ready for the October cake of the month? It's a lovely moist hummingbird loaf cake which is a banana-pineapple spice cake originating in Jamaica and has been a popular dessert in the southern United States since the 1970s.
Did it get its name because the cake is so delicious, you will hum with happiness when you eat it. Or could it be because it makes you hover over the cake like a hummingbird. You will have to try a slice and decide for yourselves! Yum!!
Hurrah soup will be back towards the end of the month, along with a new menu item - toasted sandwiches. The new menu will be published in the November newsletter but will be available in the cafe from 20th October.
“A Stitch in Time” - Repair Cafe, Saturday 11th October - 9am-2pm. Bring any items of clothing (NO socks or underwear please) and Inger will be here with her sewing machine and repair kit to to offer repairs on your clothes. A brilliant way to extend the life of a garment and the antidote to fast fashion. Inger is offering her time free of charge in exchange for a donation to the Red Cross Gaza Appeal.
MUSICAL SUNDAYS return in November and details will following our next newsletter.
WHAT’S ON IN OCTOBER.…
Tuesday 7th October - SALT BAKEHOUSE and GOOD SMALL FARMS in the forecourt 10.30 – 11.30am EVERY TUESDAY.
Friday 10th October - Friday Cuppa 10.30am -12 noon in the Church
Saturday 11th October
Tuesday 14th October - SALT BAKEHOUSE and GOOD SMALL FARMS in the forecourt 10.30 – 11.30am EVERY TUESDAY.
Friday 17th October - Friday Cuppa 10.30am -12 noon in the Church
Monday 20th October - Winter Menu launches today, soup will be back along with delicious toasties.
Tuesday 21st October - SALT BAKEHOUSE and GOOD SMALL FARMS in the forecourt 10.30 – 11.30am EVERY TUESDAY.
Friday 24th October - Friday Cuppa 10.30am -12 noon in the Church
Tuesday 28th October - SALT BAKEHOUSE and GOOD SMALL FARMS in the forecourt 10.30 – 11.30am EVERY TUESDAY.
Tuesday 28th October - TuSC - Tuesday Storytelling Club age 2-5 (but all welcome) 10am - 10.30am.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY…
18th November - Christmas Late Night Shopping (times to be confirmed)
7th December - Sing - along - a - carol, join us for festive singalong.
a little note on parking……….
Parking on the forecourt is for blue badge holders only. We would ask you kindly not to park on the gravel or on the forecourt unless you are loading and unloading for the parish rooms or are a blue badge holder. School, playgroup, walkers and emergency vehicles all need to safely access the forecourt and they can’t do this if it is being used as a car park.
From Alison our volunteer co-ordinator…….
VOLUNTEERING
Anyone who is interested in volunteering either behind the scenes or on the shop floor, should contact me on alison@truphet.com We always welcome new volunteers and full training and refresher training is a big priority for us.
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