February Baking Beauties

Our February topic was Gingerbread People, trying out the recipe ready for the Cheshire show.

For more information about our meeting have a look on the subgroup page.

Birthday Afternoon Tea – Feb 16th 2023

This year we decided to have a daytime social event to celebrate our birthday, rather than our usual celebration at our Main Meeting.

We had a wonderful sociable Afternoon Tea with delicious refreshments of sandwiches and mini cakes made by our committee and a very tasty and beautifully decorated cake made by Ann O’Brien. Irene Robinson cut the cake, in recognition of the fact she has been a member of Whitley WI for over 70 years.

We did have a short game of bingo towards the end of the afternoon but mostly just enjoyed the tea and the company – a very successful event attended by 35 members.

Book Club February 2023

At our February meeting Mary led the discussion about The Kindness Project by Sam Binnie. Members had a lively discussion and gave the book a score of 6.6/10 – for further details look on the subgroup page.

Our next book is The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood.

February 2023 Main Meeting – Pet’s Pantry and Saving the Planet

Our President Melanie welcomed 35 members and 3 visitors.

Our speaker was Karen from the local Pets Pantry. She gave an interesting talk on starting in business and how it has developed over the years. She then shared with us her experiences of a 3 month sabbatical in Laos and Thailand.

We voted on the WI resolutions. Members were then informed of upcoming events, including a Birthday afternoon tea party, a May day outing, a holiday to Bletchley Park and Cambridge, an evening with comedian Jamie Sutherland, a couple of events learning new crafts and the group Spring lunch.

The sub-group leads informed us what was happening in their sub-group and what they were doing to prepare for entries to the Cheshire Show.

Jonty told us about Project Linus, a UK charity with provides new, handmade, washable blankets to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children, who are sick, disabled, disadvantaged or distressed

Members of Craft Group have been busy knitting squares which Annette has stitched together to make 3 beautiful blankets which will be sent off for the children to enjoy.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 2nd March and the theme will be A Welsh Evening. The competition will be a Welsh Souvenir and members have been asked to bring along a daffodil, preferably unusual, for a display .

Baking Beauties – Jan 2023 – A Family Recipe

This month the topic was a family recipe. Nine members met to offer their recipe, some to honour a family member, others searched very old cook books for inspiration. This resulted in a variety of bakes including a luncheon cake dating back to 1899, egg custard, tea breads, apple cake, walnut bars, Anzec biscuits, meringues and sticky chocolate cake.

We are keen to enter for the Cheshire show this year so we had some discussion about gingerbread as this is one of the classes. Jontyn spoke about the original gingerbread of Ormskirk which dated back to the 1800’s which was served on trains in the area by gingerbread ladies. A lively discussion followed on other gingerbread recipes and ingredients.

Our next meeting is Friday 24th February at 1.30 and members are asked to make ‘Gingerbread people’. This will give us ideas and practice to hopefully generate some Whitley entries in the Cheshire Show.

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