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Flahavans makes excellent porridge
First off, Flahavans are from Waterford and this find was in Westmeath. Second, if you want the actual best porridge get yourself some Kilbeggan (which are actually from Westmeath, funnily enough).
Porridge is serious business.
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Milk is preferable, with a splash of water. I use oat milk, but water is fine in a pinch. I add such a small amount of salt that it may as well be a placebo. Here are my hard-earned porridge cooking tips, not that you asked: Start soaking the oats the night before in the pot you'll cook them in (in the fridge if you're using dairy). This softens the oats and reduces cooking time by a lot. First thing in the morning,…
Do you add milk or sugar to your tea? Or both? Or neither?! What's your favorite biscuit. Asking as a yank who likes tea and biscuits.
Green and most herbal tea gets neither milk nor sugar, but sometimes honey. Add a little cold water to the herbs first, so you don't extract bitter compounds: using near 100C water is why so many people think they dislike green and herbal tea. (Ginger, hemp, chamomile and hibiscus are the main exceptions to this rule - they need boiling water for the floral flavours.)
I love coffee, but I have enough herbal tea to open an apothecary. Just be careful that you're not getting teabags with plastic in them! Pukka are consistently great, as are Suki.
Favourite fancy biscuits are from the Island Bakery [0] in Scotland. Their Lemon Melts and their Chocolate Gingers are just about perfect. I know you can find their shortbread in the US, but not sure about other varieties. The biscuits come in a little cardboard boat and it's adorable.
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First off, Flahavans are from Waterford and this find was in Westmeath. Second, if you want the actual best porridge get yourself some Kilbeggan (which are actually from Westmeath, funnily enough).
HN has a wonderful reputation for always finding an unexpected expert to comment - from nuclear physics to philosophy, pre-history to … porridge :-) But we have buried the lede - Flahavens or not, is it water and salt, or is it milk?
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Milk is preferable, with a splash of water. I use oat milk, but water is fine in a pinch. I add such a small amount of salt that it may as well be a placebo. Here are my hard-earned porridge cooking tips, not that you asked: Start soaking the oats the night before in the pot you'll cook them in (in the fridge if you're using dairy). This softens the oats and reduces cooking time by a lot. First thing in the morning,…
Do you add milk or sugar to your tea? Or both? Or neither?! What's your favorite biscuit. Asking as a yank who likes tea and biscuits.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
First off, Flahavans are from Waterford and this find was in Westmeath. Second, if you want the actual best porridge get yourself some Kilbeggan (which are actually from Westmeath, funnily enough).
I’ll fight you on behalf of Flahavans. Meet me. Porridge is serious business.
Flahavans makes excellent porridge
Flahavans makes excellent porridge
First off, Flahavans are from Waterford and this find was in Westmeath. Second, if you want the actual best porridge get yourself some Kilbeggan (which are actually from Westmeath, funnily enough).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
First off, Flahavans are from Waterford and this find was in Westmeath. Second, if you want the actual best porridge get yourself some Kilbeggan (which are actually from Westmeath, funnily enough).
I’ll fight you on behalf of Flahavans. Meet me. Porridge is serious business.
> It is against the law in Ireland to search for archaeological objects using a metal detector unless written permission has been given. Penalties can be up to three months in prison or a fine of up to €63,486 (£53,435). Written permission from who? He was on his own farmland. You have to write a plea to the government to request permission to use a metal detector on your own land? And, if that's the case, are such r…
This resulted in a whole legal mess where they were demanding a payment from the state of what would be arounf €25 million in todays money, after months of legal arguing they got a payout of what would be around €200k today. While this was ongoing there was an explosion in the number of people going out metal detecting for similar items and it's almost certain some items were found and not delcared to the state.
So to protect the nations heritage - and we have a lot of it - from being scavenged these strict laws were introduced.
> It is against the law in Ireland to search for archaeological objects using a metal detector unless written permission has been given. Penalties can be up to three months in prison or a fine of up to €63,486 (£53,435). Written permission from who? He was on his own farmland. You have to write a plea to the government to request permission to use a metal detector on your own land? And, if that's the case, are such r…
These laws are a balancing act between heritage conservation and civil rights like allowing people to enjoy metal detecting as a hobby. Without these laws and effective enforcement of them, looters show up with bulldozers, metal detectors, and work crews in the middle of the night to dig up anything they can sell to what's now a billion dollar global market. I've spent a lot of time as an archaeologist looking at the…