Slimming World Recipe

Teriyaki Salmon

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6.

2. Separate the white and green parts of the spring onion, then roughly chop the white parts and put in a bowl. Add the garlic, lemon juice, Marmite, soy sauce, chilli powder and 90ml boiling water and blitz until smooth using a stick blender or liquidiser.

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This is one of my favourite dishes. Salmon and teriyaki is just an amazing combination. I love it with noodles and pak choi but it goes great with rice and other tasty green veg such as tenderstem broccoli.

3. Arrange the salmon fillets in an ovenproof dish, then finely slice the green parts of the spring onions and scatter over the fish. Pour the sauce over each fillet. Bake for 15 minutes or until the salmon is cooked and the sauce has thickened slightly.

4. Serve hot with vegetables and rice or noodles.

Serves: 4 Ready in: 25 mins

Ingredients:

• Small bunch of spring onions

• 2 garlic cloves, peeled

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

• ½ tsp Marmite

• 4 tbsp dark soy sauce

• ½ tsp chilli powder

• 4 large skinless and boneless salmon fillets

Syns per serving: FREE

PINXTON & SOUTH NORMANTON: HISTORY GROUP

PINXTON’S OLD MINE SHAFTS

By 1780 mining operations had gradually come to a halt. All the coal lying near to the surface had been extracted. The easily extractable coal had been got and that which hadn’t couldn’t be extracted as the drifts and ‘bell’ shafts quickly became waterlogged.

These coal deposits would have been worked by or on behalf of farmers on a part-time basis following the harvest being safely gathered in. Fuel would have been required for the coming winter months and the country had long since been mainly deforested since the early 1600’s. The expenditure required to work the coal measures required would have been beyond the means of all but the richest people.

The first deep shaft was probably around twenty to thirty yards deep (this same coal seam was 108 yards deep just west of The Toll Bar). It was sunk about forty yards due South of Wharf Road (formerly New Close Lane) opposite the junction with Pool Close (New Close Lane). The bottom three blocks still in existence were built prior to 1835 to house mineworkers required to work the new mine - the first major influx of people into the village - colliers (coal workers).

The coal reserves to be extracted from this mine were divided between The Reverend D’ Ewes Coke and two brothers by the name of Hodgkinson. The coal was extracted from east to west; the extracted coal being hauled down the slope to the shaft bottom.

This was the first Pinxton shaft to be served by a steam (or fire engine as it was called in those days). This was the first instance of serious coal mining in Pinxton and would have required serious financial investment.

Steam Engines were a new phenomenon at this date and consequently were unpredictable. Nevertheless it does indicate the seriousness of Reverend Coke’s future intent. Coal mining was an industry which served the population of the village very well until the closure of Brookhill and Langton Colliery in the 1960’s.

Not to sit on his laurels Reverend Coke founded Coke and Company in 1788 when he sunk another shaft further west (Sleights No.1) to coal reserves below the ‘Top Hard Coal Seam. This was the first of six shafts that would eventually be sunk in a line on a south to north axis and were known as ‘Sleights’ or ‘Plymouth. Pits. The last (No. 5 pit) was just south of the A38.

The last of these pits to produce coal was Sleights No. 2 in 1948. After 1908 it become the upcast shaft for Brookhill Colliery.

From the nationalisation of the pits in 1947 to closure, Pinxton pits produced over twenty million tons of saleable coal. Following the cessation of coal turning at South Normanton Winterbank Colliery, responsibility for the pit was assumed by the Manager of Brookhill Colliery. In 1957 millions of gallons of water was pumped out of Winterbank WEEKLY to keep Brookhill and Langton Colliery workings dry – where is the water now and how big is the lake beneath us?