Party Ring 5
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A large butter shortbread ring is shaped with improvised kitchen tools, then decorated with pink and yellow marbled icing.
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8. Roll out you mixture into a circular shape. We didn’t have a rolling pin so we just used a bottle of wine.
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Party Ring 5: the archived recipe
Condensed from the original account by Jonti Griffiths, published 2009-03-23. The quantities and method are the contributor’s; this is not a new kitchen test.
Ingredients recorded
- 100g butter
- 200g flour
- 1 large egg
- 100g caster sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 100g icing sugar
- Yellow food colouring
- Pink food colouring
Every ingredient is measured and the approximate cost was £4.78; the flour is adjusted by feel if the dough stays sticky. The chilling time in the fridge is not given.
Method recorded
- Mix the butter and caster sugar together until you have a mousse-like substance.
- Beat in the egg.
- Mix in the flour until you have a dough; if the mixture is still sticky, add more flour.
- Wrap the dough in tin foil and place it in the fridge, keeping an eye on it.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees or gas mark 4.
- Roll out the mixture into a circular shape; the makers had no rolling pin and used a bottle of wine.
- Using a glass, cut a hole in the centre of the disk.
- Put it in the oven on a baking tray, or on baking paper as the makers did, and remove after approximately 20 minutes.
- Mix the icing sugar with 2 tablespoons of hot water and separate it into batches of about 90% and 10%.
- Add a few drops of pink food dye to the larger batch and yellow to the smaller.
- Apply the pink batch liberally to the top of the ring.
- Streak five lines of the yellow batch across the ring and feather them with a knife.
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The original account
As we are all aware the ‘party rings’ constitute as one of you ‘five a day’ so in an attempt to reduce the amount of time taken in buying 5 different fruits/veg/party rings we have created the time saving item of the century the PIMPED party ring. Over many arguments involving tea, hobnobs and bloody noses and an intense study of the party ring me and my fellow chefs came up with the following recipe.
100g Butter
200g Flour
1 Large Egg
100g Caster Sugar
Pinch of salt
100g Icing Sugar
Yellow food colouring
Pink food colouring
1. Mix the butter and caster sugar together until you have a mouse like substance. Hit any approaching housemates’ hands with a hot iron.
2. Beat in the egg. Have a competition with remaining eggs to see who will be the first to drop theirs.
3. Clean floor
4. Mix in flour till you have dough; if the mixture is still sticky add more flour.
5. Wrap the dough in tin foil and place in the fridge.
6. Keep one eye on the fridge at all times. I didn’t do this the first time and so some passing gypsies came in and ate all the mixture.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees or gas mark 4.
8. Roll out you mixture into a circular shape. We didn’t have a rolling pin so we just used a bottle of wine.
9. Using a glass cut a hole in the centre of your disk. Use any remaining dough to throw at the gypsies that stole your earlier mixture.
10. Put in oven on baking tray, we didn’t have a baking tray so we used baking paper.
11. Remove after approximately 20 minutes.
12. Mix the icing sugar with a 2 tablespoons of hot water. Separate into batches of about 90% and 10%.
13. To the larger batch add a few drops of pink food dye. And yellow to the smaller batch.
14. Apply the pink batch liberally to the top of your ring (lol).
15. Streak five lines of the yellow batch across the ring and then feather with a knife. If you haven’t given up and eaten it all by this point you have the ‘will power’ of a quitting heroin addict.
And there you have it. A time saving way to get your five a day! Approx cost £4.78
P.S. For all you other students out there party rings also cure Chlamydia, so make sure you get pimping.
