Lion Rampant-Young 88 Yacht: Blakesleys Cruise

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Blakesleys Cruise

At last the weather was good for a weekend cruise. Winds were from the ESE so we sailed to Blakesleys setting off early Saturday morning arriving at around 9:15AM. Blakesleys is a small sandy beach between Dunich and Canaipa on the Western shore of North Stradbroke Island. The WMYC cruising group arrived at lunch time and we joined them for a chat on the beach with sundowners later on Rob and Annette's boat 'White Star'.

The picture above is all that is left of a wrecked yacht on a sandbank adjacent to Blakesleys. The picture below shows what it looked like back in May 2010.

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Dark and Stormy Scones

(A Kate Greenwood creation) makes 12 (use a muffin tin or similar because it is a sloppy mixture)

Ingredients

3 cup self-raising flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup ginger ale or ginger beer
2/3 cup crystallised ginger-chopped up into small pieces
30g sultanas soaked overnight in 40ml of rum
lemon peel from a lemon

Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees centigrade

Method

Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl. Pour in the buttermilk and the ginger beer. Mix the dough loosely and let it stand for 10 minutes. Toss in the sultanas and the rum they were soaking in. Toss in the crystallised ginger and the lemon peel. Mix it all together. Pour or spoon the mixture into the muffin tins. and put into the oven for 10 to 15 minutes.
Watch the mixture Transition from dough into scones. If the scones look like Rampant Lions then the cook has been imbibing too much straight rum. Mix some ginger ale into the cook's glass of rum and then check the scones again.