Antifeminist movement...

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Seems to be gathering pace, faster than any other movement that I can recall..

Red Pill, MRAs, blogs and youtube channels seem to be springing up aplenty.

Can we put all of this down to misogyny or admit some failings of feminist thought?

And yep, it is all down to misogyny OP. Next question.

Should bananas be roasted while stuffed with rolos or slices of mars bar?

So whats the prep for mince pie vodka?? Sounds great!

OMG. Gingernuts with peanut butter. That's beyond awesome.

Don't say I'm not good to you...

Mince Pie Vodka

Ingredients:
70cl bottle vodka (don’t use anything expensive, a cheapy does fine)
250g dark muscovado sugar
250g caster sugar
100g mixed peel
250g sultanas
250g raisins
rind and juice of half orange
rind and juice of half lemon
2 tsp almond extract
2tsp vanilla extract
6 cloves
2 heaped tsp ground cinnamon
1 level tsp ground ginger
1level tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 level tsp allspice

Also a 2 litre kilner jar or similar. A bowl would be okay, just stir rather than shake! Cover bowl to avoid too much evaporation of the good stuff.

Method: Just put all ingredients into the jar and shake once a day every day for the next 2 weeks. I left mine for much longer - it gets thicker and more syrupy the longer you leave it. You might need to top it up with more vodka…..

Then strain contents into a bowl through a fine sieve or muslin and put the liquid in a bottle and seal.

Don't waste the leftover fruit - take the cloves out to avoid crunchy surprises, then use it to make mince pies, serve with cream . . . or anything else you can think of. Keeps indefinitely due to high alcohol content! It’s particularly nice with cooking apples in a pie or crumble..mmmmmm

It is, as should be expected, a rather disturbing dark brown colour, but hey, so is mincemeat! Don't expect this to last long once you've started to drink it...

Oh thanks so much sociopath! You are a star! Will toast you at Christmas

Ha! You think it'll last that long once you've had a try, when you strain it? Think again, matey. You'll be making this at least twice before christmas....

I've done Christmas Pudding vodka but I confess that I'm curious about mince pie version - and whether there are cunning ways of improving the standing time by running it through the dishwasher top rack etc.

:) And the Medrich ginger cookies are excellent in every variation. For a more dessert like version, they work well with a little ice-cream but also an eggnog filling (tbh, I just smear it on the underside of 1 cookie but other people manage to sandwich 2).

Ha ha I suspect you are right. First batch is for testing anyway, and maybe another test to be sure I have it right - tis the law with such things! That is always my excuse lol

OK I was coming on to condemn the lot of you out of hand but then I saw the vodka mince pie recipe

Slightly different but still festive arranfan I may have to make both, for scientific purposes, you understand

One year I set up the fruit for a Xmas cake, including a bottle of brandy, but for one reason or another, never made the cake.

I made the cake the following year with the fruit and it was amazing, the alcohol had mostly evaporated by then though.

I've made peach brandy which was excellent, but this is genius. I love all mixed fruit and spice type things, so love the idea of being able to drink it.

In case anyone hasn't tried it - vodka in pastry does work very well because it adds moisture without promoting over-development of gluten (gluten doesn't form as efficiently in presence of alcohol as it does in water). Foolproof vodka pastry recipe

bananas be roasted while stuffed with rolos or slices of mars bar?

The stuffing is good if it's Rice Krispies or rice bubbles mixed with a chocolate/caramel/marshmallow/peanut butter permutation of your choice.

This is supposed to be a feminist board, dammit, not a fattisist board! I'm going to be massive at this rate. Damn you, you monsters.

You're not really going to try and blame women for male agression and entitlement are you?

Why not at least offer up some alternative explanations?

Could it be an inevitable backlash to the success of #MeToo?

Could it be that men are as usual looking for a scapegoat for their ongoing fuckwittery Re running tings?

Could it be that the political vacuum of Trump and Brexit has given agressive, evil men the impression they can be the next Hitler and get away with it because the means of social control are disintegrating before their very eyes?

Or is it simply that feminists will just not accept that all women belong in their little boxes, bless their woolly little heads, and keep having ideas above their station?

Drat uppity women and pass the mince pie vodka.

I cant believe the bigotry and hatred on this thread

By talking about cereal you are saying that gluten free people like me don’t exist. Or that we do exist and you want to kill us ( I can’t remember which it is ).

Anyway I demand that all gluten containing cereals be removed from every shop in the UK as its triggering my dysphoria.

Talking about cereal on MN is literal violence and should be made a hate crime.

If you dont do this, coelics and gluten intolerant people will kill themsleves and it will be YOUR FAULT.

And if you ever offer me a cake or biscuit with my cofffee, I have the right to punch you in the face because of your mis glutening.

By talking about cereal you are saying that gluten free people like me don’t exist. Or that we do exist and you want to kill us
I have the right to punch you in the face because of your mis glutening.

The Medrich recipes offer an excellent gluten-free variation. Polishes . (And, serious recommendation, Medrich's Flavor Flours is a very good gluten-free baking book if you don't mind that rice flour is the bulk of the GF mix and the 'hero' flours of buckwheat/oat etc. tend to be a proportion of the GF mix that is used in recipes that showcase their best properties.)

DS spreads peanut butter on his weetabix; he can scoff 6 a morning (if he's not running late for school).
I just want COLD milk on mine, and to eat it in the 45 seconds before it goes soggy.

I'm anti-sweet-booze and pro-flavoured-gin. Seville orange gin is my favourite (cheap supermarket gin, peel of one seville [bitter] orange, 4 cloves; leave for 3 months to steep)

I can't remember if that makes me a good or a bad feminist, but I'm sure a man will be along to inform me shortly.

@Rosemary46 - there is a wonderful Radio 4 comedy, called Cabin Pressure, about a very small charter airline, owned by Caroline Knapp-Shappey, whose dim son, Arthur, works for the airline as a steward (on their only plane).

In one episode, Caroline is doing some role play training with Arthur, and the following exchange happens:

C K-S - I am gluten intolerant...

A - that's OK - I'll try not to be too gluten-annoying!

Stroppywoman

Seville orange gin? Good heavens. I think my brain just exploded. You GENIUS!!! Except now I have to wait until January so I shall sulk for a while.

I believe you can buy Seville orange gin, @sociopathsunited. I’m sure I have seen it when I have been browsing the gin sites. I am hinting for a bottle of cherry bakewell gin for my birthday this year, but I may have a go at making the Seville orange one next year.

And no, I do not have too much gin. Or whisky.

We have the tanquery orange gin

Dh doesnt like gin...but likes this one !!

Gin-soaked raisins are a rannygazoo folk remedy for arthritis pain that nonetheless have their place, for some people, because they are a soothing pick-me-up. (There is nothing vaguely Hogarthian about women discussing gin.)

Take orange-flavoured or run-of-the-mill standard gin in sufficient amounts to cover your quantity of golden raisins (if you don't have golden, standard are fine) in a Kilner or suitable jar.

Leave to stand in a tightly covered container for several weeks. Drain (retain the gin as it's decent for other uses such as a Gin sorbet).

Put the raisins in a shallow container and allow any residual fluid to evaporate to the point at which you think, "That's enough". Box up.

Consume as appropriate.

The usual directions are as below but I find that a waste of gin that can be better deployed in other desserts or palate cleansers.

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1 breakfast cup of raisins
1 - 2 breakfast cups of gin (juniper-based, of course, but your own flavour experiments with citrus peel etc. work very well here)

Put the raisins in a shallow glass container and pour enough gin into it to just cover the raisins.
Cover the container with cheesecloth and allow to stand until the raisins absorb the gin and the remaining liquid evaporates, about one week.
Each day, eat NINE of these "drunken" raisins.

sociopathsunited
Why thank you

4 years ago I'd made a big batch of marmalade and had several oranges left. I used the juice for a seville orange curd and the peel for flavoured gin. Both were a crazy success.
Proud moment.