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Sherlock Holmes -food and drink
As good a place as any for recipes. There are lots of Sherlock Holmes related recipes out there and now we have a thread for them.
This is a cocktail recipe which does contain alcohol * so look away now if you are below drinking age or do not drink alcohol*
This cocktail is called No S..t Sherlock :
1/3 fluid ounce vanilla schnapps
1/3 fluid ounce watermelon schnapps
1/3 fluid ounce gin
Layer these in a shot glass in the above order. Drink.
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And fall to the floor. 
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Re: Sherlock Holmes -food and drink
Reminds me of:
1 tequila
2 tequila
3 tequila
Floor!
Perhaps another cocktail could be named Vatican Cameos? 
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Why "another"? 
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Davina wrote:
Reminds me of:
1 tequila
2 tequila
3 tequila
Floor!
Perhaps another cocktail could be named Vatican Cameos?
or the Reichenbach Fall.
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This isn't wild like that drink, but how about 'Victoria Sponge' a la Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs). I read in an interview that she likes to bake this:
Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch springform pan. Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium bowl and set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar together in a medium bowl. Add the eggs, one at a time mixing thoroughly with each addition. Slowly stir the flour mixture in with the butter, sugar, and eggs. Beat in the milk and vanilla until the batter is smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared pan
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
This cake is traditionally served unfrosted, just cut in two horizontally and filled with jam or custard and dusted with confectioners' sugar.
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I can picture the internal dialogue:
Baking is just like chemistry. This should be fun.
And help me to get undrunk.
Anyway, why do people add children's flavours into fermented sugar, and call it a 'real drink'?
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This isn't wild like that drink, but how about 'Victoria Sponge' a la Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs). I read in an interview that she likes to bake this.
Thanks for the recipe! I think I will poke holes in the form of a smiley face into the top, and fill it with dark chocolate custard (for the wallpaper), and call it a Baker Street Sponge!
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Re: Sherlock Holmes -food and drink
As we in Germany seldom use cups to measure... It sounds like a lot of baking powder and liquid stuff compared to only a small amount of flour...?
And is a cup a coffee pot or more likely a tea cup? 
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Looking at my metric measuring utensils...in the US measurement system:
1 cup = 250ml
1/2 cup = 125ml
1 teaspoon is 5ml
1/2 teaspoon is 2.5ml (obviously)
Hope this clarifies things!
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Re: Sherlock Holmes -food and drink
Resurrecting an old thread but I found this golden nugget which is relevant and quite amazing. It's called Cooking for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson and lists all of Mrs Hudson's recipies from the canon and tells you how to cook them. Let me know if any of you try these.
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They even list Ship Biscuits
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They even list Ship Biscuits
I knew it. 
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"To fake the death of one sibling may be regarded as a misfortune; to fake the death of both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde about Mycroft Holmes
"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)
“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.” (Benedict Cumberbatch)
