Warne at his retirement media conference
Shane Keith Warne
Born: 13 September, 1969
Teams: Australia, Victoria, Hampshire
Tests: 143
699 wkts, ave 25.49, best 8-71
ODIs: 194
293 wkts, ave 25.73, best 5-33
First-class games: 284
1260 wkts, ave 26.02, best 8-71

Australia's star spinner Shane Warne has announced he will retire from international cricket after the Ashes.

Warne, 37, is one wicket away from becoming the first bowler in Test history to claim 700 wickets, with the fourth Test starting on 26 December.

"I'd like to go out on top. I want to go out on my terms, I'd like to think I've earned that right," Warne said.

He said he would complete the final two years of his contract with county side Hampshire but will quit state cricket. Source: BBC SPORT

For use in savoury or sweet pies. It has the 'body' of Shortcrust pastry, the texture and lightness of Puff pastry.
It's an old family recipe given to me years ago (by Joan S) and apparently dates back to the early 1900's in South Africa.

Granted it is a mission to make.. but the results are undoubtedly superior :thumbs:

Joan's Soda Water Pastry

Ingredients:

4 Cups Plain flour
1 Tsp Cream of Tartar
1 pinch Salt
1 200ml Tin of Soda water
1lb (+- 450g) Frozen Margerine

Method:

Working over an ice bath, sieve the flour, cream of tartar and salt.
Grate the margerine into the mixture and mix in with a wooden spoon. Add soda water and mix in well. Do not overwork the pastry.

Leave to relax in the fridge for a minimum of 12 hours.

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Good morning. Can't see the trees outside and it is pretty :cold: today!

Hope you didn't plan to fly somewhere today... camping out at Heathrow can't be nice!

Have a great day! :yes:

:jive:

Merry Christmas on and all... :xmasprep:

I have this problem every time I make mince pies with puff pastry, the lid expands and lifts up (like the hatch on a tank), and the base expands and pushes all the filling out.

They still taste yummy so it hasn't put me off, but how do you make decent mince pies with puff pastry

Answers on a postcard please....

All the very best for achieving mid thirties too :thumbs:

Look at what we have to put up with in this wonderful EU country:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_o...king_jesus

Crikey!!!!! Where the h*ll do we have to go to escape stupidity of such magnitude???

:mad:

Have you got a book you have added to either read over the holidays or hope that Santa pops into your stocking.

Phone company Jajah, is offering ffree global normal phone calls to scores of destinations on 25 December. While you must initiate the call via its website, it will then call you back on your home phone and connect you to your mate/relative/long distance lover's phone anywhere in the world. Read how Jajah works. Calls will be free to mobiles and landline in Zones 1 & 2 and llandlines in Zone 3. See the zones.


http://www.jajah.co.uk/info/rates/

You have got to read this to belive it:

http://www.epherald.co.za/herald/news/n03_20122006.htm


:dazed: :confused:

3 new mini Trivial Pursuits games have gone live online at the links below

Irish; http://www.hasbro.co.uk/tpireland
The 90Â’s; http://www.hasbro.co.uk/tp90s
Genus; http://www.hasbro.co.uk/tpgenus

Hope this is of interest, let me now what you think of them.

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