Allergy free maple pumpkin hot cross scones recipe

Ingredients

• ½ butternut pumpkin, peeled, boiled and mashed
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 3 cups Orgran self-raising flour
• ⅓ cup Orgran gluten free gluten
• 125g Nuttlex, melted

Cross mixture

• 2 tsps Orgran plain flour
• 2 tsps caster sugar
• 3-4 tbsps water

Glaze mixture (optional)

• 3 tbsps maple syrup
• ½ cup confectioners sugar

Method

• In a large bowl, combine the mashed pumpkin, maple syrup and vanilla essence.
• Stir through the melted Nuttlex.
• Fold through the flour and gluten free gluten.
• Gently mix into dough, using your hands.
• Hand roll handfuls of dough to make the scones.
• Place them on a foiled and greased baking tray.
• In a small bowl, whisk the plain four and sugar with water until smooth.
• Spoon into a zip-lock back and cut off a corner.
• Squeeze out flour mixture to create the crosses.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 210°C for 15-20 minutes or until cooked through (cook time may vary according to how big you rolled the scones).
• To make the glaze, whisk the maple syrup and confectioner’s sugar in a small bowl until combined. Drizzle over the scones. Allow to set then serve.

Allergy free buttered popcorn recipe

Ingredients

• 2 large tbsps lactose free butter
• 100g (approx.) unpopped popcorn kernels
• 1-2 tsps salt (optional)

Method

• Add half the butter to a wok and turn the heat to medium- high.
• Add the popcorn kernels as the butter begins to melt.
• Place a splatter guard over the top of the wok.
• Before the popcorn starts popping stir the kernels a few times to ensure the butter evenly coats the kernels.
• When the butter bubbles and steams begin rolling the popcorn about the bottom of the pan as much as possible.
• When a third-half the kernels have popped, drop the remaining butter into the wok and continue rolling the popcorn to distribute the melting butter.
• Keep the popcorn, popped and unpopped, in motion until the popping decreases significantly then remove the wok from the heat.
• Pour the popcorn in a bowl and discard any unpopped or burnt kernels.
• Sprinkle over the salt, as desired.

10 differences between serial killer fiction and reality

The best of the best fictional serial killers are written and sometimes acted well enough to escape some, but rarely all, of the below problems. Fiction just can't reflect the true horror of reality in the case of serial killers, no matter how much they make you, the audience member, squirm.

1. In fiction, there isn't enough shock in the discovery of hidden horrors.

2. In fiction, the serial killer is glorified.

3. The extended efforts everyone makes to try to understand why is, for the most part, absent from fiction.

4. In fiction, the slow development of the killer and his crimes is cast aside for sudden gory awakenings.

5. The mix of victim and killer often present in the serial killer's personality and experience is underplayed or non-existent in fiction.

6. The serial killer's often overpowering, disturbing personality and misfit nature is ignored in fiction for the killer's ability to blend in and appear normal.


7. The serial killer's dysfunctional psychology is underplayed in fiction for a functional pattern of behaviour that leads to a repetition of kills.

8. The unplanned and rather opportunistic nature of many of the real serial killer's kills is lost for a pattern and a comprehensible reason to kill.

9. The lasting filth and bodily remains surrounding a serial killer is often left out of the fiction for a focus on initial gore and a clean disposal that justifies why everyone around them didn't notice.

10. The physical appearance of the real serial killer is often far less attractive, though frequently normal enough, than those of fictional killers.

Iconic shoes in fiction

Ruby slippers from The Wizard Of Oz

Cinderella's glass slipper

Princess Leia's slave shoes

Doc Martins from Romper Stomper

Sideshow Bob's giant shoes

Leela's boots from Futurama

Jennifer Grey’s Dirty Dancing Keds

Marty Mc'flys future Nikes with power laces

Robocop's metal boots

Robin's green boots from Batman And Robin

Flash's yellow boots

Charlie Chaplin's worn out shoes

Mickey Mouse's yellow shoes

Lisa Simpson's red sandals

Creepiest fictional vampires

Lord Ruthven from John Polidori's The Vampyre

(in part based on Lord Byron's personality)

Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula

Nosferatu from the movie Nosferatu

Claudia from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles

Pearl from Blade

Pretty much any vampire from 30 Days Of Night

Viktor from Underworld

Eli from Let The Right One In

F from Marebito

Martin from Martin

Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire

Markus Corvinus from Underworld: Evolution

Homer from Near Dark

Barlow from Salem's Lot

Drusilla from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Jerry Dandridge from Fright Night

The movie and TV faces of Emma Woodhouse

Judy Campbell (who also wrote the screenplay) as Emma in the 1948 live BBC TV broadcast Emma

(Promo shot possibly of another of the Kraft Theatre live shows)

Felicia Montealegre as Emma in the 1954 live NBC TV broadcast Emma

Sarah Churchill as Emma in the 1957 live NBC TV broadcast Emma

Diana Fairfax as Emma in the 1960 live BBC TV serial Emma

(1962 press photo)

Nancy Wickwire as Emma in the 1960 live CBS TV broadcast Emma

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz (Emma) in the 1995 movie Clueless

Kate Beckinsale as Emma in the 1996 ITV TV film Emma

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma in the 1996 movie Emma

Doran Godwin as Emma in the 1972 BBC miniseries Emma

Romola Garai as Emma in the 2009 BBC miniseries Emma

Sonam Kapoor as Aisha (Emma) in the 2010 movie Aisha

The faces of the James Bond film villains

Joseph Wiseman as Dr. Julius No in Dr. No

Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in From Russia, with Love

Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia, with Love

Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger

Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo in Thunderball

Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Thunderball

Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice

Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever

Yaphet Kotto as Dr. Kananga (Mr. Big) in Live and Let Die

Christopher Lee as Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun

Curt Jürgens as Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me

Michael Lonsdale as Sir Hugo Drax in Moonraker

Julian Glover as Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only

John Hollis as Wheelchair villain (possibly Ernst Stavro Blofeld) in For Your Eyes Only

Steven Berkoff as General Orlov in Octopussy

Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan in Octopussy

Christopher Walken as Max Zorin in A View to a Kill

Jeroen Krabbé as General Georgi Koskov in The Living Daylights

Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights

Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez in Licence to Kill

Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan/Janus in GoldenEye

Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies

Philip Kwok as General Chang in Tomorrow Never Dies

Sophie Marceau as Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough

Robert Carlyle as Renard/Viktor Zokas in The World Is Not Enough

Toby Stephens and Will Yun Lee as Gustav Graves (Colonel Moon) in Die Another Day

Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale

Jesper Christensen as Mr. White in Casino Royale

Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene in Quantum of Solace

Joaquin Cosio as General Medrano in Quantum of Solace

Jesper Christensen as Mr. White in Quantum of Solace

Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva (born Tiago Rodriguez) in Skyfall