Sainsbury's crap tip

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From their FB page

Our favourite fan suggestion of the week has been from Teresa who suggests a healthy alternative for cream in recipes. Why not mix flour with water and mix to thicken?

Thats crap isnt it. You cant make cream of tomato soup and instead of adding cream add home made glue?

My friend makes weetabix cake!

Oh missed the part about it being and 'old' razor!

Exactly squeaky!

I use cornflour to thicken but use cream to add, um, creaminess

Anyone who watches Master chef knows you add cream to thicken

Um, I love this thread. That is all.

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You could use flour and milk instead of cream, maybe that's what they meant?

Did you know that frijj milkshake is thickened with cornflour?

I'm confused about cornflour, BTW. Normal flour seems to thicken, as cornflour does. But cornflour has the weird jagged molecules so is a PITA to stir into things and tends to go lumpy unless you make it into a paste first. So why is it better than normal flour?

bertie because you can add cornflour at the end of cooking rather than thicken at the beginning when you fry off onions or meat.

midnightexpress - "Michael, 20, has never known the touch of a woman."

You can also use Smash (if you have such a questionable thing in the cupboard!) or ground rice to thicken. Neither will add creaminess which can really only be achieved with the addition of errr -cream. Flour and water? That is just so yuk!

midnight thanks for that link . I live for Crap Tips. I especially enjoyed the picture of Michael, 20 in his fetching pyjama shorts poor bastard

I always use cornflour - a couple of teaspoons mixed with a wee bit of water thickens any sauce up nicely.

I use it for Carbonara and Mac Cheese too instead of doing the roux thing because it's a pita and I can't do it. I put cream in too

I loved the hot chocolate bronzer.

The trouble with being a freelance WAHM is that I spend hours of my day exchanging websites like this with my fellow freelancers. No wonder we are all skint.

Errr - does anyone know how to get Weetabix OUT of a sauce ....???

midnight I now hold you responsible for making me snort and cry laughing and poor DH, sitting at the table trying to do Very Important Work is giving me the evil eye.

I mean, sanitary towel slippers how desperate must you be to wear jamrags on your feet??

Oh shit Anniepops is that my fault?? I was joking, did you not read the next post down? [guilty emoticon]

I reckon half of them are sent in by students as a joke.

On a radio phone in a while back someone said that instead of insoles they used sanitary towels!

my mother used to use gravy browning as fake leg tan in the late 1940's

midnight I am literally choking with laughter and am looking forward to an evening with batteries in my armpits

It scares me that there is a section of society that thinks it's normal to decorate doors with cut outs from Chat.

Rather more than knowing there is a section of society that actually buys Chat.

crying with laughter at 'i use newspaper' thanks mumsnet for cheering me right up!!