Heather Hartnell's Chumblies

  Key Ingredients: cherries, nuts, flour, sugar, butter

  This snackable feast was apparently rustled quite often in the Hartnell household, so we thought we'd have a go!

This delicious looking cakey treat was first prepared by chopping up the glacier cherries and the nuts.



Next the flour, butter and sugar were beaten into a thick mixture.



It took two people to stir the now vile brown mixture into a thick mix.



Unfortunately after a few minutes the mixture had taken on the texture of runny dog poo. You know, those horrible ones you always step in where the dog has obviously been a bit unwell. But, of course, this would all be sorted out when we added the fruit and nuts! 

Now it simply looked like nutty poo. Mmmmm. HaRpi could only quote Lynda Baron. Mmmm. Sludge Cake!

 

Lady P next spooned the yummy looking cake mix into those little paper cups and the famous HaRpi oven was fired into pre-heat action.



Ta Da! Now that's magic!

The Verdict!

ctually Heather's Chumblies were nicer than they look above. Mr Hunt should probably have left them in the oven for just a few minutes more, as willing investigators of the cakes tended to discover something a little moist deep within, but we like to think that William Hartnell found the same whenever Heather conjured up a similar treat for him. The book says the old witch used to cook these beauties up for old Bill on a regular basis, and we like to think that we preserved a tiny portion of the past by dishing up this nut-poo feast all these years later.


Health Factor: Nutty poo-tastic!