Cook's Original Safety Matches
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The Original Cook's Matches
Match: approx. 5cm long.
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Preparation and Usage
Instructions
Recipes
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4-6 people
Ingredients
1 tbsp vegetable oil
8 skinless boneless chicken thighs
8 rashers smoked streaky bacon, cut into large pieces
1 onion, halved and sliced
250g pack baby button mushrooms
Handful thyme sprigs
2 tbsp plain flour
400ml chicken stock
200ml milk
500g pack fresh puff pastry, or frozen and defrosted
1 egg, beaten
Method
1. Heat the oil in a large, non-stick frying pan. Season the chicken to taste and fry for 5-8 mins until golden brown, turning occasionally. You may need to do this in two batches, depending on the size of your pan. Lift the chicken onto a plate and tip the bacon into the pan. Fry for 5 mins until crisp. Add the onion, mushrooms and thyme, then fry on a high heat for another 3 mins until the onions start to colour.
2. Tip the flour into the pan and cook, stirring, for 1 min. With the pan off the heat, gradually stir or whisk in the stock, followed by the milk, then add the chicken back to the pan. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 30 mins. Spoon the filling into a large pie or baking dish (approx 20 x 30cm) with a lip and leave to cool.
3. Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. On a floured surface, roll the pastry to the thickness of two £1 coins. Cut a long strip as wide as the rim of the pie dish and, using a little of the egg, fix to the edge of the pie dish. Brush with egg, then lift the rest of the pastry over the pie, using the rolling pin to help. Gently press the edges with your fingers and trim with a sharp knife. Brush lightly with egg to glaze, then bake for 30 mins or until the pastry is risen and dark golden brown.
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High Wycombe,
Bucks,
HP13 6DG.
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Ratings and reviews
Customer reviews (41)
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not cooks matches
These are just ordinary length matches. Cooks matches are longer so you can light a gas hob without burning your fingers. Putting a recipe on the box doesnt transform these tiddlers into proper cooks matches.
something has changed for the worse
These have been my go to for over a decade, sadly no more. Quite often a match wont stay alight long enough, a few have snapped while trying to ignite the match (dangerous !!) Now on the hunt for my new go to but I fear that I may not find a suitable replacement, most on here have mediocre reviews.
They go out quickly
These are utter rubbish. You strike them, go to light whatever and they go out. To keep them alight you have to burn the match down quite a bit. I'm switching to Swan.
Now thin and weak
Have bought these for years but the latest box only has thin, weak matches which break on striking so I'm using twice as many. Will not purchase again, not like they used to be.
NOT cook\x27s matches
Tiny and useless matches that snap and splinter easily. These are NOT longer cook's matches, as they seem to ;lead the buyer to believe.
inferior quality now
I don't what has happened to these matches, but I will no longer be buying them. I agree with other review, half of them break, in half when trying to light them. Sometimes there is delay in it catching light and I have gone to light it again, so the flame ignites right by the box. All very dangerous.
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