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AIRECommunity News VALLEY And Local Business MAG Directory August 2014 Distributed FREE to households and businesses in Fell Lane, Exley Head, Keighley, Utley, Long Lee, Riddlesden, & East Morton www.airevalleymag.co.uk Given the tremendous expectations in the lead up to the Tour de France, it is with relief and delight that the overall feeling 2 Skipton Road, amongst residents and visitors alike is that STEETON the weekend was indeed a grand success. BD20 6NR Gratitude and congratulations go out to We specialise in school uniforms those involved in organising the many and FREE HOUSE • 4 CASK BEERS for all surrounding areas with varied events in the district and to those or without your school logos Sweatshirts who kept us safe or worked behind the with logos KEIGHLEY MARKET, LOW STREET BD21 3PQ POOL & DARTS scenes to make it all come together. TEL: 01535 958141 Live music & Karaoke £ .99 We have compiled a round up of images, Dog Friendly poetry, and articles submitted to us from 8 Families welcome readers and other interested groups. WE SELL: TROUSERS, email: [email protected] Open: 4 to 11pm (Mon-Thurs) Legacy activity is already underway and POLO SHIRTS, 12 to 12pm (Fri & Sat) SKIRTS, SHORTS, 12 to 11pm (Sun) the collaborative spirit is something we will BLOUSES, CARDIGANS, Tel: 01535 211472 / 07428 726668 continue to cultivate here at JUMPERS, FLEECES, Email:[email protected] Worth Valley Publishing. BLAZERS, TIES, Have a super summer! PE BAGS, BOOK BAGS, Enjoy your August community LUNCH BOXES AND magazine. ACCESSORIES, SOCKS Liz Barker, editor AND TIGHTS @LocalGlobalGirl SaySay you you saw saw it itin in the the Worth Aire ValleyValley Mag! 3 Country Cooking & Foraging For Food 01535 643800 goappliances For the promotion of Health & Wellbeing by Cath Bromwich Open 7 days Local. Friendly. Free delivery. We have shown off once I have tested it. For now you can squeeze Do You Want the splendour of a few drops of the juice into your gin and tonic where we live to the as an alternative to Angostura bitters! world this summer Top tip: try making different flavours by adding nowSale on and what better way a bit of different fruit to the recipe e.g. apple or Up to to continue to do this blackberry. 70% off than to serve up on a Cath Bromwich, a Silsden resident, is a cookery teacher TV & BROADBAND plate the colours and flavours of our dales! As and forager. Her livelihood includes foraging and cookery summer roles into autumn I want to share with courses such cooking on a budget and outdoor foraging and WE HAVE THE you a very traditional way of doing this. Look out cooking experiences. She trained at Balleymaloe Cookery MONSTER DEAL for those vibrant rowanberries that you see School, Ireland. For more information, or to pass on your blazing on the trees which line the dales that a stories and recipes, contact Cath at www.facebook.com/ FOR YOU couple of months ago held the worlds’ attention. foragercathyorkshire Call: 01535 681928/ 357 416 It always intrigues me that the best flavours www.goappliances.co.uk/sky to accompany meats seem to grow from the same land. Rowanberry is our cranberry and, Rowanberry Jelly for me, is very much the fruit that turns the Pick as many berries as you are happy to. Pick them before they are very ripe. At seasons. The fruit varies in colour depending on home wash and destalk. 246-248 Oakworth Road, Keighley the weather and ranges from yellow through Put in a jam 98a Main Street, Haworth, West Yorkshire orange to red. making pan with Like other forgeable fruits there are some a little water and tricky aspects to rowanberries. They are high simmer for a in pectin so can set very solid! The pips cause while, mashing indigestion so making jelly is a good option. a little. You can The juice is rather bitter. It is a savoury flavour keep simmering and the jelly goes well with game, especially beyond the time the fruit breaks down. This will continue venison, and traditionally mutton. I’ve just seen it to extract the flavour. Strain the juice out advertised with bacon and black pudding, could through muslin or an old pillow case. I be a winner! suspend mine under a chair and let the The jelly can be made alone or with other fruits. juice drip into a bowl overnight. Crab apple is a good combination but both Measure the juice. For every 1 pint of juice fruits are high in pectin so take care! As with add 1LB of ordinary sugar to a clean pan. the more common red currant jelly you can Before you bring to the boil I would get use it unadulterated on the side of your plate or your sterilized jars and covers all ready. My added to gravy. Another nice thing to do with it experience is that this jelly reaches gelling point VERY suddenly and quickly so don’t is to glaze over a fruit tart. Additionally, you can Bespoke hand made memorials, lose concentration unless you want a new add the berries to other fruit to make sweet type of household adhesive!! Bring to the carvings, house plaques, jams. boil, simmer, skim any scum off. Test for Tel: 01535 681 083 People used to brew the juices up in various gelling point by spooning a little onto a cool Mob: 07794 159 342 ways. I don’t find the idea of Rowan wine saucer, leave a minute and then draw your appealing but would try a beer! An interesting finger through. If the juice wrinkles then Feel Free to call for Free Quotes sounding alternative I have just found is a recipe quickly take off the heat and decant into email: [email protected] for rowan lemonade. I will share this with you your jars. www.qualitycarvings.co.uk To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 4 5 Jim, David & Heather would like to invite you to the GRAND REOPENING of Festivities begin at 12 Noon with Keighley & Worth Valley Railway special events for the kids. The evening program starts at 7:30 with a It is difficult to convey the design with a very distinctive streamlined buffet and entertainment provided by amount of work that goes on boiler-casing, it is always a favourite with behind the scenes to operate the passengers and we look forward to the loco joining the operational fleet shortly. Railway, but it was exemplified To explain its French connection, in its in the fantastic efforts of our 97 time operating on Southern metals, it rostered volunteers who ran the would have hauled ‘The Golden Arrow’ or Railway when The Le grandest ‘flèche d’Or’ service, the luxury boat trains of Grand Departs cycled its way that ran from London to Dover where passengers would take a ferry to Calais from Keighley, past the station at and a connecting service to Paris. It takes Haworth and on to Oxenhope. a huge commitment and amount of energy We carried passengers from just after to work on such a long-term restoration 6am to nearly 9pm, operating our most project, especially when working on a intensive timetable ever, with three steam voluntary basis, by a very small team of engines and two diesel locomotives in use dedicated expert enthusiasts, but the fruits for much of the day. It was great to part of of their labour of love is a joy to behold. the marvellous atmosphere that Le Tour We are now running seven days per week de France generated and I am looking over the summer holidays and I do hope forward to working with our partners to that you will be able to take advantage ensure that we find ways to benefit from of the discount offered to local residents the legacy of the event. and travel with us soon. Details of local We have continued the Anglo-Francais residents’ discounts and train times can theme, with this week seeing the first test be found on www.kwvr.co.uk Latest news journey on the branch line for a locomotive on City of Wells’ progress can be found that has not run for well over twenty on the Railway’s news feed: worthnews. years. The steam locomotive ‘City of Wells’ wordpress.com is actually Southern Railway by birth in As ever, if you have any comment, 1949, but it was brought to the Railway concern or even compliment to make, by its owners so many decades ago, and do please get in touch: thanks in no small part to its then futuristic [email protected] To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 6 7 BIG HILLS, BIG HEARTS, Business solutions Cleaning Ironing Retirement Living Ask Andrina BIG ON FAIRTRADE Office Solutions Sage 50 by Rita Verity, Fairtrade Haworth & Keighley VAT Returns Cash Flow Bank Reconciliations Bookkeeping Credit Control Tel: 07876 345422 Silsden Office Duties Email: [email protected] Web: www.askandrina.co.uk Twitter: @askandrina As the numerous decorated bikes and campaigning throughout Yorkshire, comprising flags come down, and road graffiti fades, of 34 Fairtrade Towns so far, we were the district is gradually returning to fortunate that Haworth’s Main Street and normal after the huge excitement of ‘le towards Oxenhope was chosen for the location. tour’. The buzz all around remained long What we didn’t know at the time though was after the cycles raced through and it’s doubtful that the iconic street scene would also be the that anyone escaped being uplifted and proud.