Baking Flapjacks and Sharing January Reads
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- čas přidán 14. 01. 2021
- It's Friday, so it's time for this week's 'Tea Reads' episode! In this video, I'm joined by my Mum (Donna), and we share our regular Friday routine of a teatime chat about books over tea and a sweet treat. In our 'Tea Reads' episodes, we'll be sharing great short reads that can be enjoyed in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea. In today's episode, we bake flapjacks on a snowy afternoon and then share some favourite reads by our kitchen fire.
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Lorraine Pascale's Flapjacks Recipe: www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/fl...
BOOKS & POEMS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:
The Snowstorm by Beryl Netherclift
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Virginia Woolf's Diaries
A Year in the Country by Alison Uttley
50 Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
A Winter Night by William Barnes: russellboyle.wordpress.com/20...
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Love watching all your videos. The authors I have discovered through you both has made my life so much more enjoyable. Thank you 💕💕
I'm enjoying your videos so much in these recent weeks. They're such a calm and comforting start to the weekend. I love the feeling you give of a 'simple life', and I mean this in the best way possible. It's a life that enjoys the simple pleasures in life - like reading, baking , nature - and almost feels completely worry and trouble free. This is such a nice feeling to portray in these troubled times. But most of all, I love how much you and your mum laugh together, giggle really, it's such a joy watch.
Thank you very much! We definitely enjoy sharing our pleasure in simple everyday things. Have a lovely weekend 💫
I totally agree with you! I feel the same! I sometimes get a little emotional watching, in a good way, because it gives me such a joy and calmness and I love seeing their relationship together. It really is beautiful.
Hi Donna and Miranda, so lovely to catch up with you both round such a cosy fire. A Winter Night by William Barnes that Donna read gave me shivers up my spine as it was so evocative of the feeling we had on our walk yesterday when my husband said I feel as if we are the only two left! Thank you for a delicious recipe, wonderful readings and, of course, your delightful company as always. Teresa 💖🔥🫖🍰📚❄️💖
Thank you so much, Teresa! It is such an evocative poem. Hope you're having a good weekend xxx
Such cozy vibes. Love seeing Donna, her Motherly nature shines. Miranda you grew up in such love, your so lucky. You both look like you are best of friends which makes fab viewing. Enjoy the snow ladies. ❤️ Thank you for a beautiful video
Thank you! Yes, we’re lucky to have each other as a best friend ❤️
How lovely Miranda! Very late watching this but talk of snowdrops in the middle of this heatwave was a very welcome relief! I loved the description of the little jars of snowdrops in the bakers’ windows amidst the cakes and buns - perfect. Thank you to you and your Mum for such a relaxing video. C x
What a gentle and enjoyable start to the weekend. I love making flapjacks, sometimes i chop up dried apricots very small and add them , along with a spoonful or two of apricot jam.
When my boys were at primary school i used to help at Friday afternoon ‘Golden Hour’ when all the children were allowed to do a fun activity. My job was to make flapjacks with small groups of four children, and they all took turns measuring and stirring, then carefully wrapped up a few flapjacks to take home very proudly. I helped with Golden Hour for several years, and was known as ‘the flapjack lady’ by all the village children. X
What a lovely memory, Penny! Children do love making these ❤️
You have no idea what a wonderful great escape your winter time reads provided. Here in So. Calif. today it was a blazing 87 F in the midst of winter. I've added snowdrops to my list of watercolor florals I'd like to paint. Thank you for perpetual inspiration each week.
Goodness, I hope you get some cooler weather soon! I'm so glad you enjoyed these videos; thank you for your kind words xxx
What lovely and interesting reads Donna and Miranda! Thank you again for making Fridays' afternoons nice and inspiring!
So glad you enjoyed them - thank you 💚🤍
I love the image of little Miranda not wanting to emerge from the Alps to view the desert. Your mum's titles are among my favorite of the year too. Fortnight, especially, continues to resonate. I was also tickled at her Georgette Heyer mention, as I'm currently enjoying it under its very non-Shakespearian title. As always, thank you for the heart-warming tea-time tranquility. It's alway a joy to watch you and your mum share laughs, memories and the joy of reading.
Haha, thank you Pamela! It was hard to get me to look up from a Chalet School book at that point in my life 😂 Fortnight is such a good book! Xxx
Hello Miranda and Donna. This was another wonderful tea reads. The snow coming down outside your window and you all cozy by your fire is very heartwarming. The flapjacks look delicious. Have a wonderful and peaceful week......Crystal.
Thanks so much Crystal! Hope you have a good start to the week too 😘
Great video you two! I loved the bit with Virginia Woolf in bed being tempted to reach out to Rob Roy while Leonard was lying in bath, and Donna clarifying that she meant Rob Roy the book!!! Enjoy the weekend, gxx
Haha, I loved that bit too!
So cozy and beautiful. I adore these encounters.
Loved this, the poems were beautiful, the wind in the willows reference was so lovely.. I almost wish i was in cold snowy country at this time of the year. Both of you look so cosy. Enjoy your weekend coming up 😀
Thank you so much, Yumi! Hope you're having a lovely weekend too xxx
Enjoyed the readings. Love you and your mother's relationship. I so needed this, thank you.❤️
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it. Take care xxx
You have the best book collection! I just love all of the ones that you highlight. Thanks again for posting these videos.
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoy them 😊📚❤️
Very nice video . Love the giggles , I find myself smiling along . Nice way to start my cold Saturday morning 🙂 .Lol I too was expecting pancakes .
Haha glad you enjoyed it! Xx
I'm excited to try this recipe for Flapjacks! I thought you were making pancakes until I heard the ingredients. This delightful recipe reminds me of something called Scotch Teas which my mum used to make when I was little and I still do! Such an enjoyable video to watch on a cold day.
The snow is so beautiful. It reminds me of central New York State where I grew up. I smiled when you were reading about the tea portrayed in your book. My paternal grandmother was Scottish, and when I was little, quite often she would give me a snack of toast with butter and sugar on it and tea, mine with more milk and sugar than actual tea😊 I need to make myself that again sometime, only now the tea will not have the milk and sugar. Thank you both for a wonderful visit today.
What a fun memory! Thank you for sharing. Hope you have a lovely weekend xxx
My Grandma was Scottish and English and she also would make toast and would butter it, then sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on it for an evening snack. It’s still a delicious easy cheap “dessert”.
Hello Miranda and Donna! Another very enjoyable episode. I laughed listening to your car trips as it brought back memories of my family’s road trips in the States and Europe growing up! The ‘20 books Donna mentioned I liked too. Also the extract from VW’s diaries was interesting having read SH. FWFS has a lovely Icelandic word that might be a good way to describe the snow you’re having: “hundslappadrifa’”! And I learned flapjacks mean something different on both sides of the pond! Stay warm and thank you xx ❄️👩🍳🫖📚🌱
Thank you so much, Rima! Glad to have brought back some good road trips memories for you! Hundslappadrifa is a fabulous word!! xxx
Thank you for the weekly tea reads you make me want to visit Yorkshire. Gsve a lovely weekend and week ahead x
Thank you! So glad you enjoy them xxx
Thankyou for this lovely video. Snowdrops are called "Schneeglöckchen" in German which is "little snow bells" in English.
So interesting! Thank you xxx
I’ve recently discovered your channel and I’m absolutely loving all your videos!! So wonderful and calming and such different recommendations. You’ve inspired me to follow my dream to move to the country and live a peaceful, nature filled life xxxx
Thank you very much! Good luck with your own move to the country! xxx
I love your pink tulips and yellow daffodils! The mantelpiece is so beautifully decorated :D Your flapjacks looked delicious (I was thinking they would be more like a pancake! lol). I haven't read The Wind in the Willows yet, but I have an old copy and going to start it soon. The Snowstorm sounded very sweet and I ordered it - can't wait to read it. I also loved the poem that your mom read - I bookmarked it so I could re-read it. Lovely!! Thank you for another cozy and cheerful video, Miranda - it was such a treat to watch after working today. It really refreshed me! So many hugs xoxo
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Gina! Thank you! I thought 'The Snowstorm' was such a charming read, and I hope you enjoy it too! xxx
Lovely tea, flapjacks, and chatting! I am off to read those selections in The Wind in the Willows. I am waiting anxiously for my copy of The Snowstorm to arrive in the mail. Thank you!
Thank you! I hope your copy of The Snowstorm arrives soon and that you enjoy it as much as I did! xxx
Your description of your road trips were so funny! I was laughing so hard. I would always have my head in a Babysitter's Club book on our family road trips. My mom would drive since my dad was so fond of a view he had a tendency to drive off the road. :D Such lovely readings this time (like every time!). When I have my own garden, I plan to plant snowdrops. A happy weekend and week to you both!
Haha thank you Elizabeth! I hope you get to plant those snowdrops one day soon 💚🤍
@@MirandaMills Thank you!
A perfect start to the weekend. Going to go out and look for snowdrops tomorrow! Thank you xx
Oh wonderful! Hope you find some 😊
Thank you both for another enjoyable video.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Sounds really cosy❄️💛
Tea, books and cake by the fire is definitely my quintessential idea of cosy! xxx
Loved this as always! I just read Claire Harman's biography of Charlotte Bronte (glorious), and I'll never forget this little detail about someone who saw Charlotte walking to the church on her wedding day; they compared the sight of her in her dress to "a snowdrop." I loved that, and I'll always think of Charlotte's wedding dress when I see those flowers now. 🌱🤍
Oh that is lovely - thank you for sharing 💚🤍
You made want to read this bio, especially I am currently reading Jane Eyre.
Hi Miranda and Donna lovely video I had to wait till Saturday to watch it this week but it was just as enjoyable, flapjacks always remind me of my school lunch box yum 😋. I liked your mums choice of books that she enjoyed reading last year I agreed with her A Fortnight in September just such a lovely book it will be on my list for this September to read 😊 and Wind in the Willows I have been listening to on audible narrated by Allen Bennett I remember I think it was a BBC Radio original always a joy to return to. Although I am looking forward to spring I do like curling up by the wood burner book in hand and a cup tea while it is snowing and cold outside. I have The postscript Murders and The other Bennett sister to read next just trying to decide which one hope you are having a good weekend love Janet x
Thank you so much, Janet! It sounds like you've got a lot of cosy reads ahead of you. Enjoy your weekend xxx
It's the middle of summer here in Melbourne but it's unusually cold & rainy today so I've just made flapjacks. I had all the ingredients & your videos always make me want to drink tea so I'll be doing just that when the flapjacks are out of the oven.
Oh super! Lovely to think of you joining in with flapjacks and tea 😊
What a nice video! I was intrigued when I saw your ingredients because our flapjacks are more like pancakes.... I’ve ordered Lorraine Pascal’s cookbooks from the library to check out her other recipes.. thank you so much!
Looked like you and your mum were having a lot of fun baking the flapjacks, they looked really tasty too, my daughter loves flapjacks so will definitely be giving those a go 🤣
The Wind In The Willows is my all time favourite audiobook; whilst I so love the book, I’ve listened to it on tape, then CD and now have it on Audible, I’ve introduced no end of people to it, it’s such a fabulous listen, I particularly like the dramatisation which includes Alan Bennet, bliss 😍😍
The snow you’re having is amazing, we’ve not had a flake down here in Buckinghamshire 🙁
Thanks Karen! We did indeed have a lot of fun! I like that dramatisation too, though my audible version is read by Michael Hordern, which I love! Hope you get some ❄️
Looked so cosy cooking these! I have to confess i read the Christmas Party and really struggled and yet I love her Regency books, don't know why I just couldn't gel with story - Stephen seemed so obnoxious, he just seemed to exclaim all the time and was rude to everyone... the potential mother-in -law was drawn very well though and I did finish it :) A fortnight in September is a lovely read, charming and affectionate, def a favourite. Enjoy the snow it looks heavenly :)
Glad you enjoyed The Fortnight in September, anyway! Have a good weekend xxx
Yes, I too was expecting fluffy pancakes smothered in maple syrup. I thought, well that's an interesting choice for tea time. But I think your flapjacks look really good too and enjoyed the book selections. I had to Google what snowdrops look like. Very pretty.
Definitely recommend giving the British type of flapjacks a go sometime! They’re so yummy 💫
Two things I look forward to on Fridays: The Simple Sophisticate’s This & That and Miranda & Donna’s Tea Reads!
Thank you!
It’s funny but here in the US (at least where I live), “flapjacks” is another word for pancakes. Nothing like what you made. 😉
Oh interesting! Definitely completely different!
That’s true in Canada too! I’d love to try this version of flapjacks, however. :)
I was trying to find the book your mom read about flowers and golden starts (Jane"s Country year) Thank You
It's out of print, I'm afraid, but secondhand copies sometimes crop up!
Hello Miranda and Donna, snowdrops is “sneeuwklokje “in Dutch. When translated in English you say: “snowbell”. Thank you for your lovely video 🥰
Oh lovely! Thanks for sharing. Happy weekend!
Love for the SPATULA!
Lol, yes - I know how much you love spatulas, Julie!
@@MirandaMills I AM a fan of spatulas, AND YOUR CHANNEL, videos. Thank you, as always.
BBC open country podcast just did an episode about snowdrops.
Interesting. Here in the States, “flapjacks” is another word for pancakes, a thin batter cake that is pan fried and topped with various cultural favorites such as apple sauce, maple syrup, or even peanut butter AND maple syrup in my family. VERY different than yours.