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64Using bread dough for pastry
Lately I've been following the trend to make no - knead bread dough and I've had very good results. The bread comes up with nice air pockets in it and is always a gorgeous colour. There are plenty of videos on You Tube on bread making and I've put one on here so you can see how easy it is. But I thought, well if the bread is so easy to make and there is no fat in it, why not use the same dough to make a pie? So I did. I made a batch of bread dough to the same recipe, used a half of it for a re
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62Beef Pies Recipe
For these spicy beef pies I used chuck steak. This is from the fore quarter of the animal and needs a long, slow cook to make it tender, succulent and delicious. I first made a marinade and let the chunks of beef soak up the tastes for two hours in the refrigerator. Once that was done I added water to it and covered it before cooking for three hours on a low gas.
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62Fast Food Furniture
Fast Food. No, I'm not talking about the stuff you get from restaurants, I'm talking about furniture, a table of food that has a motor attached and does 130m.p.h. Think I'm kidding? Perry Watkins of Buckinghamshire, England set a new world record for the fastest piece of furniture in September 2010. First he bought a 1994 Reliant Scimitar Sabre sports car with a three point five litre V8 engine, then he took the body off it and built a metal frame around the chassis. The frame was hinged upward
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72Flatmobile- world's lowest car
The worlds lowest street legal car is a jet - powered reproduction of 'The Bat Mobile.' Perry Watkins of Buckinghamshire started the project in October 2006 after his success with two other world record flattened cars, 'Impressed' at only 26 inches high which gained the Guinness Book of records in 1990 as the lowest legal car, and 'Lowlife' at 24 inches high, his flattened and elongated Mini which held the record from 2000 to 2008.
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77World's smallest car
The world's smallest car has been built by an English engineer. The body of the car started life as a kiddies toy car with Postman Pat and his black and white cat still in situ. Perry Watkins from Buckinghamshire wanted to build the tiny car after his tremendous success with the 'Flatmobile,' a car only 19inches high which could do 100 miles an hour, and the racing table, a table complete with cutlery and crockery, named Fast Food, which can do 113m.p.h. The world's smallest car at the time of P
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67Small House
At one time, new houses in Britain were the smallest in Europe, and the reason? The lack of building regulations regarding living space at that time, according to experts. In Denmark, homes built to regulation had twice the floor space as the small houses that were built here. In Essex a company had built flats so small that they had only a 34 square metre floor area with a living room measuring three metres by 3.6 metres. In comparison, the average new home in France was 112 square metres.
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63Obesity and Edward Bright
They say that obesity can kill, and this man from Essex in the UK was a testament to that fact. He lived for only 29 years and on his death he weighed 42stones and 6 pounds, or 594 pounds. He was 5feet 9 inches tall. Edward Bright lived in Maldon, Essex from 1721 to 1750, and he was said to be the fattest man in Britain. At the age of 12years Edward weighed 12 stone or 168pounds and he had to give up his job as mail boy because he was too heavy to ride the pony that was supplied. This was not a
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72King George 5th
George Frederick Ernest Albert was born on 3rd of June 1865. He was the second son of Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales and Alexandra Princess of Wales. His father, Prince Edward would later become King Edward 7th on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. George's elder brother, Albert Victor was seventeen months older than George and they were raised together, taught their lessons together and joined the Royal Navy together when George was twelve years old. They were sent to H.M.S Brittania
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65The real John Bull
John Bull is the cartoon portrayal of the typical English Yeoman. Bluff, hearty, down to earth and from good, solid English stock. He is shown to be a portly, red faced man, who wears a Union Jack on his waistcoat, and is accompanied by his dog - a Bulldog. He was created by Dr. John Arbuthnot in 1712, and was used in cartoons, magazines and leaflets, often decrying politicians for their policies and bringing them down a peg or two. He has survived over the centuries by his pure, no - nonsense a
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62Cracked wall cladding
My bungalow was built in 1926 and as far as I know it has never had the pebble - dash exterior renewed. We've lived here for 20 years after buying it when my friend who owned it died. He lived here for many more years than my family. This year I noticed that some cracks were appearing in the surface of the pebble-dash under my veranda windows. Tapping the surface with a hammer revealed that some of the cladding was hollow-sounding, so there was only one thing for it: take off some of the loos
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