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Cheeseburger Pasta Bake
The nights are drawing in and we all fancy some comfort food, so this recipe is perfect! Filling, tasty and on plan. Fabulous! Serves: 4 Ready in: 40mins Syns per serving: 3
Method:
1. Spray a medium-size saucepan with low-calorie cooking spray and place over a medium-low heat. 4. 5. Preheat your grill to high. Stir the beef into the pasta. Spoon half of the mixture into a shallow Ingredients: • Low-calorie cooking spray
Add the onions, cover and cook for baking dish, cover with half of the • 2 large onions, roughly 10 minutes. tomatoes and season lightly. Grill chopped 2. Meanwhile, cook the pasta for 5-7 minutes. • 400g dried pasta shapes, according to the pack instructions, 6. Sprinkle over half of the cheese such as fusilli or spirali but drain and return to the pan a and top with the remaining pasta, • 500g lean beef mince (5% couple of minutes before the end beef and tomatoes. Grill for 5 fat or less) of the recommended cooking time. minutes then sprinkle with the • 6 large tomatoes, sliced 3. Uncover the onions and increase remaining cheese and grill for 2 • 80g reduced-fat Cheddar, the heat to high. Add the beef and minutes or until golden. Divide coarsely grated (or see tip) fry for 5 minutes or until browned, between 4 plates to serve. Small pack fresh coriander, breaking up any lumps. Drain off any liquid and season lightly. chopped
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When Witches were Real - The Bakewell “Witches”
It may seem strange to us living in the 21st Century, with our TV witches like Samantha in ‘Bewitched’, or the sisters in ‘Charmed’, but only a few hundred years ago Witches were considered very real, and very dangerous
The church had done a good job maligning ‘midwives’, ‘wise-women’ and (female) herbalists for many years; until any woman who may have a modicum of healing knowledge could be charged with witchcraft and ‘consorting’ with the devil. Such charges would result in various nefarious ‘tests for witchcraft’ (torture in other words) to force a confession – unless the poor woman was killed in the process of extracting said confession!
It’s easy to see how accusing someone of witchcraft could be a way to get rid of someone who stood in your way or had ‘wronged you’ – and this seems to be the case in the strange story of the ‘Witches of Bakewell’.
In 1607, a Scotsman was discovered hiding in a cellar in London wearing only his nightclothes. The story he told to explain his presence was ‘strange’ to say the least! He claimed that he had been lodging in the house of one Mrs Stafford in Bakewell and had become aware of a light shining through the floorboards. Pressing his eye to a gap he had spied the woman, together with another lady, chanting: “Over thick, over thin, Now Devil to the cellar in London.” Whereupon they had both disappeared.
Intrigued he repeated the words to himself, but he got them slightly wrong: “Through thick, through thin, Now Devil to the cellar in London.” He claimed he then travelled at great speed to London and awoke to see the two women laden with parcels of silk and muslin which they had gained by some illegal means. The women drugged him, and he slept.
A Judge ordered that the house in Bakewell be searched and the Scotsman’s clothes were discovered. Apparently this, and the fact that the man had been found wearing only his nightclothes, was sufficient ‘proof’ that Mrs Stafford and her friend (or possibly sister) were guilty of witchcraft. The two unfortunate women were taken from Bakewell to Derby and were sent to their deaths – by hanging or burning, depending on which account you read.
A more plausible explanation of the matter is that the man fell behind in his rent and Mrs Stafford took some of his clothes to cover the debt. He then made his own way to London and ended up in the cellar, where he exacted revenge for being turned out of the Bakewell lodgings by making up the witchery story.
There are actually NO official records of either the trial OR execution of the two Bakewell women, so the entire story, could just be that – fiction. The first written notice of the event appears in one William Wood’s ‘Tales and Traditions of the Peak’ of 1886 and in various other books of Derbyshire folklore.
So, did it happen?
Who knows? These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.
To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341
