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Our Favourite Recipes - by Lydia Munyard
Melting Moments
6 tablespoons margarine or butter
¾ cup flour
3 tablespoons castor sugar
2 tablespoons custard powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Cream margarine and castor sugar. Add flour, custard powder and vanilla
essence, mix in. Roll into balls in your hand and then press flat with
a fork. Cook at 180 deg for approx. 8 minutes
Chocolate Cake
1 ½ cups flour
1 ½ cups sugar
6 ozs butter
½ cup milk
½ cup cocoa
3 eggs
3 flat teaspoons baking powder
Cream butter and sugar and yokes of eggs. Dissolve cocoa in ½
cup hot water, add. Add milk and flour. Beat well, then add beaten whites
of egg and baking powder. Put in oven for 20 minutes. Allow to cool.
Vanilla or chocolate icing, yummy!
Crumpets
Beat 2 eggs, add 4 tablespoons sugar. Stir in 8 tablespoons flour and
4 flat teaspoons baking powder. Add milk to make right consistency.
Cook on hot buttered hot plate or pan. Serve with syrup and cream.
Crown Jewel Cake
8oz self raising flour (or 4oz self raising wholemeal and 4oz self
raising white)
4oz castor sugar
4oz margarine
12oz mixed dried fruit
1 teaspoon ground mixed spice (optional)
2 eggs
A little milk
Rub in flour and marg until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Stir
in fruit and sugar. Add eggs and sufficient milk to make mixture soft
(about 1-2 tablespoons). Bake at 150 deg C for approx. 2 ½ hours.
Cool and turn out.
Banoffee Pie
8oz biscuit base – digestive biscuits and butter
Tin condensed milk
10oz butter
bananas
6 caster sugar
double or whipping cream
flake or grated chocolate
Make biscuit base by crushing digestive biscuits and stirring in 4oz
of butter in shallow pie dish. Place rest of butter and sugar in a saucepan
and heat until butter is melted. Stir in condensed milk. Bring to boil
stirring continuously and boil for 3-4 minutes still stirring, until
mixture resembles light caramel.
Just before serving slice banana onto the biscuit base. Cover with
caramel and then put another layer of sliced bananas and then cover
with whipped cream. Top with crushed flake or grated chocolate.
Jam Squares
250g butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla essence
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Whip butter and sugar until creamy, add beaten eggs and vanilla, add
flour and baking powder. Press into baking pan and layer it with jam,
grate a little mixture over the top and bake at 180 deg for 15-20 minutes.
Check often.
Date Loaf
4oz margarine
1 teaspoon bicarb of soda
1 cup sugar
½ cup warm water
2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup chopped nuts
½ lb dates (500g)
Soak dates and soda in warm water until soft. Cream butter, sugar and
eggs well. Add dates. Beat well. Add flour, nuts and vanilla. Pour into
greased loaf pan. Bake at 180 deg C for 1 ¼ hours.
Chocolate Crunchies
250ml flour
5ml baking powder
12.5ml cocoa
250ml coconut
250ml oats
125ml sugar
175ml margarine
Sift dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and cocoa) into a bowl.
Add oats, coconut and sugar, and melted margarine and mix. Press into
greased pan and bake at 200 deg C for 15-20 minutes.
Icing
Mix together 250ml icing sugar and 12.5ml cocoa and a little water.
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