Have you noticed, ladies, that the Alford recipe has 85g flour, and 225g oatmeal; yet the one you have just recommended, TA, has equal quantities of these two.

Perhaps there was insufficient flour in the Alford one (maybe they meant 185g instead ..... )

A few years ago, and running a stall at a local event, we had always made cakes, biscuits etc, and this particular year, I thought about making some savoury goodies, as I knew our stall was going to be alongside the beer tent!

Found a recipe for 'Cheese Pennies' - little round cheesy biscuits. They would do, I thought.

Unfortunately, I think they had mixed up the amounts of flour to cheese. They came out of the oven like cheese-flavoured brandy snaps. Melted into a fine meshy thin thing.

I thought nobody would want these, so I put them in a presentation box, and charged 1p each.

Then a beer-drinking lady came up and bought just five of them. She came back very quickly and bought the rest - she said they were delicious.

They didn't look like pennies, though .........