not to give DPs mum the recipe for my yummy cereal bars?

[GregoryPeck]

Merely because it puts me at an advantage?
I made DP some gluten free cereal bars a while ago as he is a coeliac, and he let his mum and sister try them.
They love love loved them and I duly made another batch just for them.
Now they keep asking me for the recipe.
But...I quite like them having to ask me to make my 'special' treat as DPs mum is a really good cook and he adores her (as well he should, I don't mean in a creepy way).

God, just tell me I am being petty, I should just give her the recipe shouldn't I? She is an utterly lovely woman, I just quite like being better at something than her, that's all..

I want the recipe NOW

I would pass it on to her as you never know who she may also help with the recipe. Nice gluten free foods are so hard to come across and are very expensive (I have an issue with wheat but no where as bad as your DP). Share your wisdom but name it after you or your DP.

OP-can I just ask-is it a recipe of your own invention, or one you have taken from elsewhere?

Yes HappySeven I think it is a compliment as well, that they'd want the recipe :).

don't be so mean - give her the recipe - and me too !!

Agree with blacktype! How petty.

Share. The. Recipe. With. Us.

Otherwise, YABAUC.

(You Are Being An Unreasonable Cow :o)

I agree with Jacksmania

can you whisper the recipe to meeeeee please?

I promise i wont pass it on

yanbu btw x

My Mum, Sister and Brother are all coeliacs. I will swap you their no-flour recipe for an orange cake (really nice) if you PM me yours for cereal bars.

Oooohhhh, Trillian agrees with me!!! at Trillian :)

Ok, if we're bribing the OP - I have a recipe for gluten-free muffins.

In a gesture of goodwill, here is the recipe, for everyone:

2 1/2 cups (625 mL liquid measure) ground almonds
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup honey
3 eggs
large splash vanilla essence
large dash cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder

Mix, pour muffin cups half full, bake at 350 F (170 C) for 22 min (poke a toothpick in to see if it comes out clean). They should be golden to lightly browned on top.

Ahh Jacksmania you are a star! I've been experimenting with ground almonds as a base for rock cakes but can't quite get them right, will try your miffin recipe and then see if I can adapt it to rock cakes - it sounds lovely!

OMG muffin not miffin

Jacksmania's Miffins.

That sounds like the title of a really bad novel.

Or the name of an equally bad rock band :o

Does anyone else want the recipe to Janet's Fudge Cake?

OP - get a nice notebook, write the date you first made the bars on the first page, write "DH's favourite gf cereal bars or wittier title" and the recipe, and then keep this as your cooking notebook to pass on to your children. Then give the recipe to your ILs - they'll likely call them GregoryPeck's lovely cereal bars, the recipe will be passed on until randon strangers on the internet are asking for the recipe, just like in MmeL's mysterious Janet. It's the way of recipes and one of their utter, ageless charms.

I am going to get Janet's Fudget Cake recipe but have to warn that it is not actually a cake but a tray bake.

Oh, thank you! Even better, actually - like the fact that the name sticks as JFC despite its lack of strict accuracy. I may put it in my cooking notebook, and when, in the years to come, DGC ask who Janet is I will have No Idea and they will think my mind is going.

OP another request for a pm. If it has oats then I won't need it as dh has never had oats. Coeliac for over 40 years.

Please please please.

(promise I won't tell your mil, or even my own!)

I may also have to call it Janet's Fudget Cake and then invent some kind of spurious etymology for Fudget.

It's amazing how names can stick. GregoryPeck's Cereal Bars (or other more apt name) will live on.

We still tuck into Cheryl's Burn-yer-Bum Chili. Cheryl and I worked in a office together 15 years ago. I didn't even really know her, but my co-worker was asking for a good chili recipe and Cheryl said she had a good one, wrote it out with that title, and it ended up getting photocopied and handed round.

I lived in America for a while and gave it out to friends there.

I wonder if one day Cheryl will be handed her own recipe...

Ooh, you are getting 2 for price of 1 here. I forgot that it is a combined recipe with Lesley's Choc Cake.

8 oz marge or butter
Large bar cooking choc
Large tin condensed milk
Syrup
Sugar
Raisins
Large packet digestives

Janet's Fudge Cake
do this first as it saves washing the pot
4 oz marge
4oz castor sugar
1 tbsp syrup
1/2 tin of condensed milk (or small tin if only doing this recipe)
1/2 packet digestives (put in plastic bag, give children rolling pin and stand well back)

method
Melt marge, sugar, syrup and condensed milk
Boil for 4 mins till turns brown
Add crushed biscuits
Put in Swiss roll tin, leave to cool then cover with melted choc

Lesley's Choc Cake
Melt 4 oz marge or butter and 6 oz cooking choc, add rest of crushed digestives, 6oz raisins and other half of condensed milk. Spread into Swiss roll tin. Leave to cool.

When both are cooled, cut into small squares. Hide in laundry room room and scoff as many as possible before the children find you.

Thank you, MmeL. And thank you, Janet and Lesley, whoever you are...

Did Janet and Lesley have a Ready Steady Cook style competition with the same ingredients? And is the laundry room essential, as I don't actually have one?

Do you think we should have a passed-on recipes thread?

Great idea, habbibu. A "MNetters favorite recipes" thread would be great.

Then MN can take the recipes and publish a book with all the cash going to a charity.

Laundry room not essential. You can hide in office/bedroom/wardrobe.