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Oh my goodness gracious, I was up and down the step stool into baking supplies today. I even checked that my supply of Lyle’s was adequate. But I never noticed the lion except cursory glance

But I have to climb step stool again to put a few more things away

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I have to confess I had to Google "treacle" as I couldn't remember what it actually means. This sounds great and seems fairly easy to make. I always need another St. Patrick's Day recipe. Go raibh maith agat (per Google - thank you very much in Gaelic).

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I think I love this story a little more than I should! 🤣 It’s very British! And the treacle tart sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing!

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i'm glad you liked the story as much as I did!

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Found Lyles at my local UK Gourmet in Bethel CT. $5 for the 11oz bottle. I may try this for Easter

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Thank you for sharing this recipe! I've always wanted to try treacle tart after reading about it in the Harry Potter series, but I wasn't able to find it anywhere when I had the chance to go on a short trip to London last year. Homemade will have to do!

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Oh, this is so much fun to read! Even though I don't currently have an oven! xo

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I just got my oven back! I’ll make two!😉

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Thank you, Kim! I will pretend to enjoy one here in Tokyo!

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How many egg yoks in the crust? Ingredient list says 1, but the "putting together" part says 2.

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fixed it! sorry for the typo. it's one egg yolk.

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Thanks! And I do know how to spell yolk!!!!

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Ok, my maturing brain is confounded. The ingredients for the crust call for 1 egg yolk. The instructions say to put 2 yolks in. What am I missing? I do have yolks on my mind - just made E Jean Carroll’s birthday cake and have 6 yolks in the fridge.

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No, no. My brain is the one that is confounding you. I fixed it! Sorry!

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Thanks! Looking forward to trying it. The cake batter was good.looking forward to frosting it - tinted green of course - and serving it to friends tomorrow.

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I don’t understand why the lion had to be changed?! Am I missing something?!

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No reason! I think they just wanted a change...

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The reason is stupidity, like New Coke and a host of other things not coming to mind right now. Somebody at Lyle's probably actually looked at the label and went "WTF! There's a dead lion on there—that's icky and we have to change it!"

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