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Portobello Jubilee Market Cake Stall - Saturday 2 June 10am to 4pm

Dear Ladies

Do hope you have your baking heads on for this weekend.  Small cakes and biscuits and tray bakes that we can slice are the order of the day.

We'd love help on the stalls themselves, we will be in the Craft Market and a second stall which will be under the Westway by Portobello Green vintage market.  We'll be there from 8.30am setting up and getting the kettles boiling but help would be appreciated.

Even if you can't make it, we do appreciate the offers of cakes in advance.  They can be dropped off either to me, Toto or Debbie, whichever is easiest for you.  Addresses on request.

Contributions accepted throughout the day, and it should be a fun day.  There's a playground near the craft market which my boys enjoy if you need to plan the entertainment of small others and there's always something to look at in Portobello!

Look forward to seeing you and thanks for your support for the WI.

Katrina 

Photos from the May meeting

As you can see there was a good turn out for our May meeting and our ladies displayed their creativity with aplomb! We hope you all had a lovely evening.

P.S. I will be updating the Facebook Group "Fulham WI" with our news as we go along. Feel free to join if that method of communication suits you.

Claire.

FWI

Jubilee: Union Flag cake recipe!

Dear Ladies  

Don't know if this interests you or makes you laugh or makes you throw up your hands in horror but it was in the paper last week and I mentioned it to a couple of other committee members who rather liked my thought that we could use the idea to make similar cakes for the Jubilee tea and cakes stall on Saturday 2 June at Portobello.

I am going to have a go now making it from normal sponge mixture and dying it red and blue and then wrapping it in ready made sheet icing to hold body and soul together rather than going down the Battenberg route which may be too almondy for the majority.

Hope you are enjoying the weather and are putting your minds to baking for the 2 June.  Let us know if you want to drop cakes off either to Debbie September or to me and we also look forward to help on the day officially from 10 till 4, but some of us need to be there from 8.30am.  

Toto has sourced some great aprons so we will present a uniformed front and the great institutions of British LIfe, ie the WI and a cup of tea will be on show on the day!

Enjoy the sunshine and look forward to seeing those of you who are coming to the theatre on Tuesday 29 - show starts at 9pm at The Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus, I will be there from 7.30ish, those who will be at the Jubilee and as many as possible at our June Meeting on Monday 12 June.

All good wishes

Katrina Quinton

President

Fulham WI

Recipe (thanks to The Times):

Elizabeth Battenberg cake Ingredients Cake 180g self-raising flour

80g ground almonds 3⁄4 tsp baking powder 225g unsalted butter, room temp 225g caster sugar 4 large eggs, lightly beaten Red and blue gel food colouring Filling

65g unsalted butter, room temp 1⁄2 tsp vanilla bean paste 25ml double cream 125g icing sugar Pinch fine salt

6 tbsp jam

To decorate

500g white marzipan Red and blue food colouring Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Take a 40 x 20cm piece of parchment paper and make a 5cm fold in the middle, this will act as a dam and prevent the cake batters running into each other. Grease a 20 x 30cm brownie tin and line with the prepared piece of parchment.

Mix the flour, almonds and baking powder together in a medium bowl and set aside. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, slowly add the egg, beating until fully combined before adding more. Add the dry ingredients and fold until well mixed. Divide the batter in half and add red colouring to one half and blue to the other. Place the batters into the prepared baking pan and gently level. Bake in the oven for 25-30 mins.

Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes before turning out on to a wire rack to cool completely. Using a serrated knife cut five one-inch wide strips of red cake and four one-inch strips of blue cake. Slice each blue cake diagonally along the length to form the corner pieces.For the buttercream, beat the butter until smooth and creamy, slowly add in the cream, mixing until smooth. Add the icing sugar bit by bit and once fully combined beat until fluffy. Add in the vanilla and salt and beat to combine.

Assemble the cakes together to resemble a Union Jack. Use jam as glue to join the red sponge to red sponge and use buttercream where you join red to blue. To finish, roll out the marzipan until 4-5mm thick and brush with a thin layer of jam. Place the cake on to the marzipan and wrap with the marzipan to seal. Turn cake seal-side down and trim edges for a flush finish.

 

FULHAM WI - MAY MEETING - DIFFERENT LOCATION!!!!!!! - MONDAY 14TH MAY

Dear Ladies

Firstly apologies that this is a bit late coming to you, usual excuses!  Saying that, if anyone feels they would like to join the committee please do let it be known.  We are all perfectly normal, it's not onerous and there is room for all who wish to help organise things!  There are lots of things going on so please do read to the bottom of the email and for those who are coming to the theatre the tickets have arrived and I will bring them with me on Monday and payment would be appreciated!!

Now to our May meeting, change of venue for this month which will always add a frisson of excitement but it will be a good meeting so please do come along to hear and watch Gaby Martin (a Fulham WI member) and to look and learn about food styling and presentation and at the time of writing will focus on presentation of cakes and preserves.  So useful for impressing the friends, the Jubilee and Olympic celebrations coming up, Parsons Green Fair and beyond.

The meeting will be held at the showrooms of John Lewis of Hungerford, 156-158 Wandsworth Bridge Road, SW6 2UH.  The link from their website http://www.john-lewis.co.uk/showrooms-fulham.php shows where and the showroom's telephone number is.  The website also shows you what lovely surroundings we shall be enjoying and we are most grateful to John Lewis of Hungerford for welcoming us.

‪www.john-lewis.co.uk‎

 

Gaby Martin

Where body and soul meet to eat.

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Food and lifestyle concepts, styling and design.

Orchestrating events, tastings, micro festivals, pop-ups, social media managment and bespoke services.

For the producer: Promoting outstanding artisan foods by leg and by web. Making it simple for the small producer.

For the hosting venue: Increasing foot fall and engaging visitors through food knowledge, spectacle and innovation.

Building fruitful and sustainable connections through food, Gaby focuses on the social, aesthetic and cultural fusion of food and location. Masterminding enchanting site-specific food events, the aim is community and connectivity.

You will have wants and needs, but we will bring you more.

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Gaby studied art and design at Camberwell School of Art and Kingston University 3-D Design (Interiors), as well as Food Styling at Leiths School of Food & Wine and WSET Award Wine and Spirits.

Gaby is an urban allotment grower, committee member of Slow Food London and splits her time between London and Sussex.

About Gaby:  http://about.me/gabymartin

 

 FULHAM WI – EVENTS UPDATE

Christian Louboutin Exhibition, Design Museum, Saturday 21 May 2012

Meeting at the museum at 10.30am.

 

39 Steps - Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly - Tuesday 29 May at 8.00pm

Tickets are bought £19.50, payment required asap!!!

 

Portobello Jubilee Market - Saturday 2 June - 10am to 4pm

We have been asked to man two stalls and will need to be there from 9am to set up and get the water hot!  All we need to do is provide the cakes to offer people tea and a bit of cake for £1.  Tea and everything else is provided and we keep all the funds raised which will go towards the full bursaries for a course at Denman College which two lucky members will win at our AGM.  All cakes and biscuits are welcome, and cakes that we can cut up would be ideal.  Beautiful cupcakes are always welcome and we can sell these separately but don't make them too big please!   We can collate cakes during the week if that helps you and help on the day will be much appreciated.  

Our stalls are at the Golbourne end of Portobello Road, near the craft market and the Portobello Green Vintage Clothes market.  There will be lots of bunting and balloons and such like so will make a happy family day out with lots of things to look at and be tempted by!

 

Parsons Green Fair - Saturday 7 July - 12noon to 5pm

More cakes required and jams and chutneys and anything else you feel like!!!  Another fun day which is very sociable and raises funds for us!

The Queen – Art & Image - National Portrait Gallery – Thursday 19 July 2012 
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this landmark exhibition brings together some of the most remarkable and resonant images of Elizabeth II made during her reign.  From formal painted portraits to commissioned photographs and from press images to works by celebrated contemporary artists, the exhibition charts the evolving representation of one of the most portrayed people of all time, and the influence of this imagery on changing perceptions of the monarchy. 

Exploring the startling range of artistic creativity that the Queen has inspired, the exhibition also reveals the radical changes in portraiture and profound social developments since the 1950s. Featured photographers and artists include Cecil Beaton, Pietro Annigoni, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Lucian Freud, Thomas Struth and Gerhard Richter. For more information go to http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/the-queen/the-queen-art-image.php

This exhibition is predicted to sell out quickly, so we will be booking tickets (£6.00 each) for the 6.15pm slot.  Please can you let Toto know if you are interested in going to this by Monday, 28 May.

 

Saddlers Wells, Tuesday 18 Spetmber at 7.30pm

Tickets bought, £30.40 payment asap please!!!!

Other events we are considering for later in the year:

• Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950 exhibition at the V&A
• Summer picnic
• Ghost walk for Halloween

Please contact Toto on totofwi@gmail.com or 07957 323 321 regarding any of these events or anything that you would like to do.

 

Greatly look forward to seeing as many of you as can make it on Monday evening.

 

All good wishes

 

Katrina and the rest of the Committee

Fulham WI x

 

Fulham WI Meeting is on Monday 14th May - not the Bank Holiday!

Dear All,

Just dashing away for the weekend but realise I should remind you all that we do NOT meet on the bank holiday and our May meeting, which is terribly exciting, will be on MONDAY 14 MAY 2012.

Unusally we will not be in the pub that night, but will be at the John Lewis of Hungerford showrooms on Wandsworth Bridge Road, starting at 7.30pm when Gaby Martin will be showing us how to present food in a variety of ways so we can glam up our summer offerings and stun them all at the cake sales various!

Promise I'll write properly next week with all the things we have on the go!

See you on the 14th and enjoy the weekend!

Much love

Katrina x