Do I wash my jeans or not? That is the question. My son has two pairs of very expensive jeans. I know he bought them at a discount shop and he didn't pay that much, so that's fine. Their original prices are outrageous, but he bought them with his own money, so that's not my problem, either.
The problem is that he doesn't want me to wash them because the colour might come off or they might shrink. Those overpriced jeans with their expensive material should stand repeated washings, I would have thought. I wash my jeans after I wear them 3-4 times. I'm a bit OCD about cleanliness and now I've got a problem living with someone who doesn't want to wash his jeans.
I addressed this problem to someone I know - a very decent young Englishman. To my dismay, he said he doesn't wash his jeans for months. OMG! Since then I've been asking everyone I see if they wash their jeans. Some of them wash their jeans as often as I do, but to my horror, majority of them don't wash them for at least a few months, and this is regardless of being a boy or a girl.
Of course I googled this issue. I must say the result of my research is shocking. I found the following comment on one of the websites: "so-and-so of Levi Strauss told the Wall Street Journal that at the six-month mark, he soaks his jeans in the bathtub with some very mild soap and lets them air-dry." All very well if you live in a very sunny and dry country, but if you did that in the UK your jeans would be stinking by the time they dry...
Enough about nasty stuff. These biscuits are very very easy, healthy, and good to eat :)
Ingredients:
100g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
a pinch of salt
160g porridge oats (not jumbo ones)
140g butter, room temperature and soft
120g soft brown sugar
1 egg
50g raisins, soaked in rum (or hot water) for 20-30 minutes
Preheat the oven to 200C.
Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt together a few times.
Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until white and fluffy. Crack an egg in to this bowl and mix well. Add the raisins, flour mixture, and oats and mix again. Don't overdo this as the dough gets ...err... doughy. If it's too hard for the spatula to go around you can use your hand and knead gently.
Take about a tablespoon of the dough onto the baking sheet and flatten a bit. It doesn't have to be precise. Keep doing this until you finish the dough. Bake in the oven for about 10-13 minutes.
Enough about nasty stuff. These biscuits are very very easy, healthy, and good to eat :)
Ingredients:
100g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
a pinch of salt
160g porridge oats (not jumbo ones)
140g butter, room temperature and soft
120g soft brown sugar
1 egg
50g raisins, soaked in rum (or hot water) for 20-30 minutes
Preheat the oven to 200C.
Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt together a few times.
Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until white and fluffy. Crack an egg in to this bowl and mix well. Add the raisins, flour mixture, and oats and mix again. Don't overdo this as the dough gets ...err... doughy. If it's too hard for the spatula to go around you can use your hand and knead gently.
Take about a tablespoon of the dough onto the baking sheet and flatten a bit. It doesn't have to be precise. Keep doing this until you finish the dough. Bake in the oven for about 10-13 minutes.