Yesterday I visited a friend who lives in a village called Lintorf not far away from here, takes 10 minutes to get there in the car, traffic permitting. My friend and her Mum both live there. It was beautiful weather, ice-cold but with sunshine and blue skies, made a nice break from the cold, grey winter days. We started the day off with a good natter over breakfast, which lasted nearly 2 hours. We were planning on baking *Buchteln*, yeast cakes filled with jam, so I made the pastry so that it could rise, and then we set out for the flea market which they hold about 4 times a year there. Was a tiny market, but lots of interesting things on show; the usual household bric-a-brac, used books (we found some good ones!), records, toys, old china - you name it, they had it. And some stalls selling new goods, which ranged from life size animals to put in the garden to cheap sponges, ball-point pens and batteries which did NOT look as if they would have much energy left in them. And of course, all the stalls selling goodies to eat - sausages, coffee, bread and rolls, fruit, spices, nuts and dried fruits of all sorts, and - pop-corn!! It was soooo nice to walk home clutching our buys with a big bag of warm, freshly popped, sticky corn. We bought crystallized ginger, burnt almonds, salted cashews and Japanese crackers, too. After we had walked through the park back to my friend's place, I baked the *Buchteln* - recipe at the bottom! There are dozens of different recipes for them, this is just my one. You eat them hot with vanilla sauce - or icecream - but they don't taste bad cold, either. After eating our fill we played cards for the rest of the afternoon, drank coffee and ate nuts, ginger and crackers to keep up our strength. All in all a lovely day in good company, almost like a mini-holiday.
Nice story and pictures, sounds like you had a good day! Sarah
ReplyDeleteOoh that recipe sounds yummy!
ReplyDeleteThe flea market looks interesting too.
Pleased you had such a good day.
Sue xx
Thanks Sue and Sarah! It was just one of those perfect days that we don't have toooo often!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such a perfect day Val, I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)
ReplyDeleteSuzie xxxx :)
Looks like a fab flea market and sounds like you had a wonderful time your cake looks very yummy alma x
ReplyDeleteThanks Alma and Suzie!!
ReplyDeleteThat receipe sounds delicious!
ReplyDeleteJackie :-) x
Im so glad you had such a lovely day Valerie, and that pudding looks yummy! I think I might even be able to manage that recipe, thanks for sharing it Valerie!
ReplyDeleteSue x
Thanks Sue, the recipe is very easy and tasty!
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