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Easter Edition 2021 £1
Rector
The Revd Fr Dominic Fenton The Rectory, Nelson Place CT10 1HQ 07846 629455
Email: dominic.fenton11@btinternet.com
Assistant Curate
The Revd Dr Jennifer Walters jenniferkwalters70@gmail.com 07824 440820
Honorary Associate Priests
The Revd Derek Duncanson 843289
The Revd Alysoun Whitton 579936
Fundraising & Events 867925
Mr John Barrett
Church Wardens
Mrs Mary Richardson 596238
Mr Robin Colyer 07878 537448
Hon Treasurer
Mr Alan Bell 228232
Brownies
Mrs Sue Hunt 602240
Parish Hall Bookings
Caroline Simpkins 318749
Pastoral Officer
Mrs Margaret Keeping 602121
Parish Administrator 01843 - 862921
Mrs Frances Lowden
www.holytrinitybroadstairs.com email:holytrinity2009@live.co.uk
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Rector’s Ramblings
Dear friends,
After the long months of winter it is wonderful to see longer and brighter days
and everything suddenly springing back to life, much helped by the increasing
warmth. Wherever spring unfurls, we may catch a glimpse of it, ponder it, allow
it to grow within us. As Winter turns to Spring and Lent gives way to Easter, so
we celebrate a ‘turning-point’, not only in the natural world, but in our spiritual
journey. Amidst all the new growth, there is God and His call again to new life!
The message of Easter is that there is a new creation at work among us. A new
creation, full of beauty and hope, where previously there has been darkness and
despair. A new creation beckons which is full of beauty. And it is here that we
are able to understand the wondrous exchange which takes place on that first
Easter morning between Jesus and Mary Magdalen at the tomb, when she
imagines him to be the gardener. Jesus calls her tenderly and gently by her
name. There is a moment of recognition and he commissions her to tell the
other disciples, that in him and in the events now taking place, a new dawn is
quite literally breaking. The Risen Christ is freed from the chains and darkness
of death and he walks in the sunshine of a garden. He emerges from the tomb -
and the awe and beauty of that moment will generate new possibilities and new
delights, new forms of life for people everywhere.
Perhaps as we begin to emerge from lockdown, we can take comfort from the
mammals, insects, birds and other living things with which we share our world.
We will find our own way back to some semblance of the life we had before this
pandemic – for we are social creatures and we need the reassurance of each
other’s presence. Perhaps like Mary of Magdala, we need a voice and touch; we
need the kindness and reassurance of others - but supremely, we need the
anchor of Easter faith. It is only through being with the Risen Lord, sometimes
in a garden, sometimes deep at prayer, always through our sacramental life, that
we learn how to go out into the world and become our true selves once again -
through regeneration and new birth, through acts of self-effacing goodness and
truth. May it be so for each one of us this Easter.
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Easter Communion
Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:
God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.
You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,
Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced
To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East
With draught of thin and pursuant cold so nips
Breathe Easter now; you serged fellowships,
You vigil-keepers with low flames decreased,
God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent
With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze
And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment
Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.
Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent:
Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1899)
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Easter Communion
Please note that there will be no Easter Vigil this year on Holy Saturday.
However, on Easter Day there will be a High Mass of the Resurrection (at the
High Altar) at 10.00 am with Sermon, whilst the Junior Church engage in an
Easter Egg hunt in the Rectory Garden (weather permitting). They will join
us for Communion at the appropriate point. On leaving the church there will
be Easter eggs for all! Please remember, however, that we must continue to
observe all the necessary COVID protocols both inside and outside the
church. There will be a second, short celebration of the Eucharist on
Easter Day at 5.00 p.m, for those who would appreciate a quieter service.
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+ Holy Trinity, Broadstairs +
“A welcoming, affirming and inclusive church,
seeking God through beauty in our worship,
honesty in our faith
and service in our community”
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Morning and Evening Prayer are said daily.
For details of opening times and services during the Pandemic
please see our website
www.holytrinitybroadstairs.com
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Garden Notes for February
Our gardening expert writes:
This will be a really busy time in the garden as February and March
have been difficult for outdoor work. As is the case every year, do
watch the weather, just in case the winter returns and there are
further frosts. If we do get caught out by another spell of winter,
don’t panic! Just try to cover things up as much as possible and bring
any tubs or pots close to the house.
We certainly had some cold weather this winter
and even in our coastal area some shrubs and
plants have been damaged. If something is quite-
obviously dead, it should be removed now. How-
ever, where this is less clear, the general advice is
that unless a plant has died, cut back and see if it springs back to life!
Just scratch the bark of a shrub or sapling and hopefully you will find
green, the sign it has survived.
If you haven’t cleaned up the greenhouse or conservatory, now is the
time to do that. Good hygiene is essential and do remove anything
that has died over the winter and clean and disinfect it thoroughly.
Also do repair any cracked or missing panes of glass to avoid further
damage when the wind gets inside.
You probably have cut the lawn by now and if not it can be really
tough going to cut grass that has grown all winter, especially if you
don’t have a petrol mower. Do be gentle with your early mowing
regime and resist the temptation to cut it all very low at the first cut
of the year. Any work that you do to the lawns now will pay dividend
in terms of appearance later in the season, especially raking and
spiking. If your lawn is not very big, you don’t need any special
machinery, just a good fork. Keep up the good work on the herba-
ceous borders and although the old time gardeners will tell probably
tell you that it should have been sorted by now, conditions in the
early part of the year were not good. Remove young weeds and aerate
to allow it to dry out nicely. It is time now also to move plants that are
in the wrong places and to divide up those larger, mature clumps.
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Borders can easily become exhausted and it is recommended that you
always add some compost or very well-rotted manure annually if you
can. If you have a lot of bulbs in your borders, it is a case of working
carefully around them or waiting until they are over. Home produced
compost is ideal and why not have several compost heaps on the go so
you have a plentiful supply of free material. It will add body to our
light, chalky soil, but for feeding, do also add some organic fertiliser.
In May there is plenty to do in terms of dead heading the last of the
flowers from the bulbs and of letting the foliage die down. If you
choose to lift your bulbs, now is the time to do it. The previously
aerated borders can be tidied and easily kept clear by regular hoeing.
You should plant out dahlias and winter flowering chrysanthemums.
The roses should be doing nicely now but some of us have been a bit
late with the pruning. Don’t worry as things are sure to recover as they
always do. Do be vigilant when temperatures rise and watch out for
greenfly and other pests. If you are starting to get infested, act quickly
with an insecticide spray or soapy water, if you prefer not to use
chemicals. Once the time of frosts is over, it should be safe to get some
bedding plants in the borders and containers. Last year’s first lock-
down meant that bedding was sometimes hard to obtain but we hope
for better times this year.
On the vegetable side of the garden, you can catch up with planting
seeds . It’s a shame that we have not been able to do early sowing this
year and if we have, they probably haven’t survived due to the cold
and damp. If you don’t a have vegetable plot or want to grow things in
larger quantities, there is an opportunity now to sow vegetable seeds
in pots, containers, or grow bags. Beetroot, carrots, peas, beans and
salad crops can be sown outdoors. Watch the weather and night
temperatures and beware of planting tomatoes and peppers outdoors
too early.
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Recently my sister sent me a book called “The Giving Tree”. I hadn’t
heard of it before, but she thought I would appreciate it. Its about the
“relationship” between a boy and a tree which continues as the boy
grows into a man and then an old man, and as the tree, at the same
time, also matures. As the title suggests, the tree gives generously to
the boy. At the start she gives him a trunk to climb, branches to swing
from and apples to eat. The boy spends all his time with the tree.
As the boy grows up, he spends less and less time with the tree, just
returning when he needs something. She gives him apples to sell to
make money, then branches to help build a house, and then she gives
her trunk so that the boy, now an old man, can sail away. When the old
man returns once more to the tree, now a very elderly man, the tree
has nothing left to give except her stump as a place for him to sit and
rest.
The blurb on the back cover says that this is a story about “the gift of
love”, but to me it feels like quite a sad story. The tree gives everything
she has to the boy, and whilst it is true that the giving makes her
happy, it comes at the cost of her life: a beautiful, healthy, flourishing
tree in the end becomes a stump.
This story speaks to me about both the gift of giving and the gift of
receiving.
I, like many people, love giving presents. I like finding that perfect gift
that will be just right for that person. Both the process of finding the
ideal gift and of seeing the person unwrap it give me a lot of pleasure. I
don’t think that I am quite so good at receiving gifts. I tend to feel a bit shy
and perhaps even a little bit undeserving. I am getting better though, and I
8especially love my hand-made collection of presents from my two
young nieces. I’m starting to think that I might be a difficult person to
buy presents for! I don’t need much, I don’t have “collections” as such,
and I have more than enough to keep me alive and happy. But perhaps
this is about more than the giving and receiving of gifts.
How much do you find that you are giving of yourself and has that
changed during these last months of lockdown and pandemic? A few
weeks ago, I just ran out of my own resources – I felt like the tree stump
with nothing left to give. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has felt like
that recently, and I just had to stop and recharge. I’m usually pretty
good at noticing when my resources are running low and I find a way
of topping them up. But one thing that I realized is that during lock-
down, it has been more difficult for me to find ways to top up those
resources.
My usual methods of recharging are to go round to see a friend and sit
and have a cup of tea and just talk everything through. Or we might go
out to a coffee shop and sort the world out over a latte and a piece of
cake. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it’s my
friends who help me recharge and top up – I receive something from
them. During lockdown, meeting friends in this way just hasn’t been
possible, and although talking on the phone helps a bit, it’s just not
quite the same.
I am a classic introvert and so it has been quite a revelation to me to
learn just how much I receive from other people. I like my own compa-
ny, but somehow, I don’t have what it takes to recharge my own re-
source batteries. I have always valued friendships enormously, and I
even wrote an essay in college about how friendship was the most
important of all the relationships in our lives.
9What I hadn’t appreciated was just how much I need those friend-
ships.
Friendships are unique in our close relationships because we
choose our friends. It is a relationship that all parties enter into
voluntarily and could walk away from at any time. There are no
legal or blood ties, and to me that makes this relationship a very
special one indeed.
I am fortunate to have some very good friends who I have known for
a long time. You know, the kind of friends where you don’t neces-
sarily see each other often, but when you do, you just pick up from
just where you left off the last time. And good friendships are about
both giving and receiving. It is a special kind of love, and a love
which is blessed by God.
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Last month, on 23rd March, (the first anniversary of the first COVID
’LOCKDOWN’), Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, led ‘Thought
for the Day’ on Radio 4. Here is the text of his broadcast.
“A year ago, we went into lockdown. We measure the losses since in
deaths. We measure them also in so many other ways. Lost days at
school. Lost contacts with friends and families. Lost opportunities to
hug, to touch, to say hello, to say farewell. The losses in the economy
that affect our lives and futures. The losses of sport and other great
occasions – of festivals and mass gatherings in the arts and music.
The loss of choices. Covid has touched everything and everyone.
Unconnected events have been changed. Weddings, funerals, birth
10celebrations, falling in love, dating, mourning and celebrating. Going
to work, going to friends, going for a walk, going shopping. Everything
we do has been different.
One of the great songs of lament in the bible begins “by the rivers of
Babylon we sat down and wept.”. An anniversary is a time to lament, to
mourn, to sit and weep for what could have been and is not. Pause for
a while today, remember what has been lost, above all who has been
lost. Lament - for to do so, is to both honour and treasure.
As a Christian I follow and love Jesus Christ who loved and mourned
his friends. Anniversaries are moments of new beginnings. It is just a
day. But it is also a moment. And one of the signs of being human – of
being spiritual as well as material - is that we make moments that pass
into moments of significance. The anniversary calls on us to ask where
we are going? Shortly Christians will celebrate Easter, when we each
believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and showed the victory of
God’s new life. Our Jewish friends will also celebrate Passover, the
liberation from slavery in Egypt, and next month, our Muslim friends
will observe the holy month of Ramadan.
What do we want to build as a society? Surely it is a living memorial
to loss - and an expression of what we long for. Imagine it; then let us
strive for a society that is just and good - a society that speaks of the
overwhelming victory of life and hope.
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Please note that our APCM will take place after the main 10.00 a.m.
Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, Sunday 23rd May this year, when
we hold the customary Election of Churchwardens. There will be two
vacancies occurring on the Parochial Church Council and we welcome
nominations in advance. If you would like to nominate someone for
this important role, please ask their permission first and then return
a completed nomination form to our Administrator, Frances Lowden.
11TELLING TALES
Our series, 'Telling Tales', which follows the autobiographical memoires of
members of our regular congregation "without restriction or restraint!".
Anthony Warn
I was born in 1938 in the Widmore part of Bromley, Kent. The church of St
Michael’s was quite close to where we lived, but the church the family attended
was St George’s, Bickley. In 1940 our house was badly bomb damaged and the
family moved to a rented house in Edgware for the duration of the war.
My sister, Mary, attended a primary school close to the church the family attend-
ed, which was John Keeble church, Mill Hill. When I was five, I attended Deans-
brook School which was very pleasant and consisted of classrooms on four sides
of a square with a central garden.
After the war we returned to the house in Bromley, and we attended St Michael’s
church for some time because St George’s had been bomb damaged and was not
repaired for a long time. After St George’s was repaired we moved to a larger
house near there and began to worship there again.
I attended a primary school in Bromley that did not suit me, so I went to a small
private school for some years before passing an examination, aged 13, to go to
Beckenham Technical School. One of my mother’s relatives was a Merchant Navy
captain and I decided to join the Merchant Navy, so I transferred to the London
Nautical School for a year when I was 16. The school was not far from the River
Thames, on the south side between Blackfriars Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. My
sister, Mary, was at Salisbury Teacher Training College and was living in the
Cathedral Close for two years before starting to teach at an Orpington
infants school.
12In the autumn of 1955 I became a deck officer apprentice with Houlder Bros.
& Co Ltd. I sailed for two voyages on the MV Condesa which was a general
cargo and refrigerated cargo ship which was allowed to have a maximum
number of 12 passengers. I joined the ship in London’s King George V dock on
3rd December 1955 and left after 2 voyages, having called at the Suez Canal,
Aden, Colombo, Freemantle, Geelong, Melbourne, Sydney, Nelson & Napier
(New Zealand), the Panama Canal, Curacao, New York and Montreal. On the
second voyage we included Auckland and New Plymouth, New Zealand, but
did not call at New York or Montreal.
After this, I sailed for three voyages on the SS Argentine Transport, a “liberty
ship” which was built in the USA in 1944. We sailed from Liverpool and called
at Swansea, Newport, St Vincent (Cape Verde Islands), Montevideo (Uruguay),
Buenos Aires, Rosario, Vila Constitution (Argentina), Vitoria (Brazil), Trinidad,
Galveston (Texas USA), Coatzacoaccos (Mexico) and Immingham. I was then
the senior of 2 apprentices on the crude oil tanker MV Imperial Transport
from March to December 1958. We called at the Suez Canal, Mina Al Ahmadi
(Kuwait), Cape Town, La Plaza & San Lorenzo (Argentina), Montevideo, Dur-
ban, Fao (Iraq), Little Aden, Ummsaid (Qatar), Venice (where I had 2 days
sightseeing), Bandar Mushur (Iran) and Swansea. During the voyage, one of
the deck officers became ill and was sent home to the UK. Thus I was promoted
to 3rd officer.
Between March 1959 and May 1996 I travelled on so many different ships,
crossing oceans and continents and growing both in confidence and in further
developing my skills and qualifications. It was in May 1966 that I obtained my
‘Certificate of Competency as Master of a Foreign-going Ship’, and I then
subsequently wrote to Houlders telling them that I did not wish to return to
sea with the company.
My father had retired from his insurance office job in December 1965 and I
was quite happy to help with preparations for moving to Broadstairs, which
we did on 15th July 1966. I made an unsuccessful application for a job in
Thanet and then saw an advertisement in the local paper for interviews for
jobs in the Home Civil Service. I joined the Ministry of Social Security in
September 1966 as a clerical officer, and was promoted to executive officer in
1971. I finally retired in July 1988.
I have had several holidays abroad, including four flight/cruises to Antarctica.
I have attended this church for the last 55 years and greatly appreciate the
friends I have at Holy Trinity, Broadstairs.
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Holy Trinity Church
10.00 am - Noon
Saturday 29th May
14Have you come across Cycle of Good?
For over a hundred years, our postal services commissioned top-quality, Brit-
ish-made bikes for posties delivering our mail. But the way we use postal
services has changed: we’re sending more parcels thanks to internet shopping
and fewer letters due to email. Bikes are no longer suitable for our posties and
they have gradually been phasing out their use. But that’s not the end of the
story. For the past few years Krizevac Project (a UK-registered charity) has
been on a mission to save the bikes from landfill as they are decommissioned.
We’ve given them a new lease of life: supporting the successful growth of
social enterprises in Malawi, Africa – one of the poorest countries in the world.
One of our most successful enterprises is BeeBikes. Krizevac have shipped
thousands of ex-postal Mailstar bikes to Malawi over the past six years. The
African workshop employs eight local people to repair and service the donated
bikes from Britain. They are then sold to Malawians who can travel to work,
transport goods to market and travel miles to school or college. Bikes in
Malawi can be life transforming and often mean an income for life. The profits
from Beebikes funds care for pre-school children in our own Mother Teresa
Children’s Centre in the heart of the township.
Some of the Malawi bikes were sold to Liwonde National Park; home to the
majority of Malawi’s protected wildlife. The Fence Wardens were delighted
with their ex-postal bikes and their new found ability to complete 30-mile
patrols of the rhino fencing in record time. But it turns out that elephants don’t
like red and the Wardens were at danger of being chased. Desperate to solve
this problem, the Wardens tried out some re-sprayed green bikes. Remarka-
bly, the elephants no longer gave chase… and the first Elephant Bikes were
born.
You buy an Elephant Bike from Cycle of Good, along with a carrier and basket
for £330. It costs us around £250 to collect, store, process, shot-blast, powder
coat, transport, purchase spares and baskets, final quality check, sell, and
package and post each bike. 100% of the remaining £80 is used to ship bicycles
to Malawi. This represents at least 1 bike (and actually nearly 2 bikes) sent to
Malawi for every bike sold here in the UK.
Check them out at: www.cycleofgood.com
15Sands of Time
There are things in our lives
That we cannot stop,
The ebbing of tides
The tick of the clock:
The wind thru’ the tree-tops
The wane of the moon
The seedtime and harvest
The movement of dunes.
Most of the time we’re too busy to notice
We take it for granted and think we’re in charge.
But wait for a moment
For if you just stop
And look at the clock,
And hear the sea pounding
And feel the wind howling:
You’d have to admit that you could not control
This invisible power
That gives us our breath
And takes us in death
Pamela Bird
16SERVICE OF CONFIRMATION 2021
It had been hoped that our forth-
coming service could take place at
the Easter Vigil this year, but due to
COVID restrictions this was not pos-
sible.
However, we have a new date and a
number of candidates now for the
Confirmation, which will take place
on Sunday 20th June at the main
10.00 a.m. Eucharist. The Principal
Celebrant will be The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, sometime
Assistant Curate of St Peter’s in Broadstairs, a former Archdeacon
of Portsmouth, then Dean of Carlisle, Bishop of the Isle of Man and
latterly Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Some of you may
have met Bishop Graeme before, as he came to preach at Holy
Trinity Church two or three years ago, and (from 1987-1990) was Fr
Dominic’s Training Incumbent. He is still ‘in recovery’ - the Bishop,
that is!
If you have not been confirmed and would like to consider it, or
indeed know of anyone who would, please let Fr Dominic or Rev
Jennifer know as soon as possible. There will be a short series of fun
and interesting preparation sessions (probably via Zoom) in ad-
vance of the event. We do hope that everyone will make this service
a priority, so please put the date into your diaries NOW!!
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GOLDEN WEDDING CELEBRATION
We wish to extend our warmest good wishes and
many Congratulations to Caroline and Jeff Tompsett
who will celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary
on Saturday 15th May. We will have an opportunity to mark this
great occasion with them in church on Sunday 11th July, when it is
hoped that some of their family members may be present. We wish
them many more years of happiness together!
17Brain Engage
Our next Brain Engage session will
take place on Sunday 25th April at
6.30 p.m. This new, short series of
talks will explore the relationship
between human beings and the rest
of creation, starting with a talk by
our own Curate, The Reverend Dr
Jennifer Walters “In the beginning…”
which will look at creation from dif-
ferent perspectives, both biblical
and scientific. Please see our web-
site for the link
Brain Engage via Zoom
www.holytrinitybroadstairs.com
18Saturday 10th April
Parish Quiz Night
Online via Zoom
www.holytrinitybroadstairs.com
All welcome
H.R Palmer
Miss I.E.Palmer
FUNERAL SERVICE
30, Hardres Street, Ramsgate CT11 8QF
Telephone (01843) 592720
A friendly independently owned and conducted
Undertakers and Funeral Directors Business.
DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE
Help and advice freely given on pre-paid funeral plans
Private Chapel of Rest
Cremations and Funerals any distance
Horse Drawn Hearse available
Established 1912
19The Weekly Draw
The Weekly Draw is back - but with only a few remaining places left!
Don’t miss out!
For a £1 weekly stake you are in with a chance to win a £15 “One for
All” Voucher, which can be exchanged in most major stores. The draw
takes place every Friday morning at 10.00 a.m. and the weekly prize
winner notified thereafter. Have some fun and help to raise money for
the church. Further details from Val Bough or Frances Lowden in the
Parish Office. Don’t delay - join today!
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In the last edition of the Magazine we noted with sadness
the death of John Dillaway at the great age of 94. John was
most privileged and proud to hold the rank of ‘Colonel’,
not ‘Lieutenant Colonel’ as previously stated. We are keen to correct
this misunderstanding and sincerely apologise for the error. (Editor)
20Easter Simnel Cake
Ingredients:
6oz light soft brown sugar/6oz margarine/6oz S.R. flour
3 large eggs (beaten)/ 3 tbsp. milk
2oz ground almonds
4oz sultanas/4oz glace cherries, washed, dried
& quartered/4oz ready-to-eat dried apricots,
chopped into small pieces
2tsp. mixed spice
1lb marzipan, 1 beaten egg , 3 tbsp apricot jam
for the topping.
Line an 8” round, loose bottomed , deep sided
cake tin with baking parchment
Set oven to heat at 160*/140*, gas 3
Method:
Put all ingredients (except the marzipan) into a large bowl & beat well un-
til blended
Spoon half of the mixture into the tin & level the surface.
Take a 3rd of the marzipan, roll out to a disc the same size as the tin (use
the base of the tin as a guide), place this disc on top of the mixture, spoon
remaining mixture on top, then level again.
Bake for 1 3/4 – 2 hours – some ovens may vary, but check it is firm in the
middle before removing.
Topping: Heat through about 3 tbsp of apricot jam, then brush it over the
top of the cake.
Take half of the remaining marzipan & roll into a disc (as before). Place
this onto the cake.
Crimp round the edges with your thumb. Roll the remaining marzipan into
11 (Judas doesn’t get one) even sized balls & place around the edge of the
cake fixing with a little beaten egg.
Brush the marzipan with the beaten egg & glaze under a hot grill, turning
the cake frequently so that the marzipan is evenly tinged. (If you have one,
use a blow torch)
This is especially yummy! Enjoy
21Book Fair
Saturday 22nd May
Holy Trinity Church
10 am - Noon
Refreshments available
22Holy Trinity
Parish and Community Hall
is newly-re-furbished but currently
closed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
(We welcome enquiries for future bookings however!)
Attractive rates for ‘socially-distanced’ groups
and private functions.
Contact: Caroline Simpkins
01843 318749
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