Beat 2 eggs.
Add 2 raised tblspns sugar.
Beat.
Add 1 tblspn warm syrup.
Beat again.
Add 1 raised tblspn flour, 1/2 tspn cream of tartar, 1/2 tspn baking soda, 1/2 tspn cinnamon, 1/2 tspn ginger and pinch of salt.
Mix together.
Bake in deep patty tins for 12 minutes at 160C.
Makes 12.
Author: Ian
Caramel Slice – Jean
175g butter
125g sugar
1.5 cups flour
1 tspn BP
Mix and press half of this base mixture into sponge roll tin.
Centre mixture:
1/2 tin condensed milk
50g butter
2 tblspns golden syrup.
Blend all together over med heat.
Pour onto base.
Topping:
Crumble other half of base mixture on top.
Bake in moderate oven for 25 minutes, until lightly brown.
Rolled Oat Biscuits – Jean
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
125g butter
3 tblspns warmed milk
1/2 tspn baking soda
Cream butter and sugar.
Add baking soda in milk, then flour and rolled oats.
Bake 20 minutes at 150C.
Makes 24 biscuits.
Marshmellow Slice – Jean
– Make a shortcake and cook in slice tin
Soak 2 dessertspoons gelatin in 1 cup cold water for 8 minutes.
Add 1 cup sugar and boil for 10 minutes.
Let cool and then add 1 cup icing sugar.
Beat three times.
Ice with chocolate icing.
Health Loaf – Catherine
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup bran
1 cup wholemeal flour and 1 tspn BP OR 1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup mixed fruit
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 cup milk
1 tspn vanilla essence
Mix all together in bowl.
Put in lined loaf tin.
Bake at 180C for 1 hour.
(Acknowledgement: Christine, Port Chalmers)
Fruit Loaf – Mavis
6 weetbix
500ml milk
500g fruit
1.5 cups sugar
Put all ingredients into bowl and stand for 5 hours or more.
Add 3 cups self-raising flour and stir.
Put mixture into 2 loaf tins.
Bake 1 hour at 150C.
Orange Muffins
1 orange plus 1/2 cup orange juice
1 egg
1/2 cup wholemeal flour
1/2 tspn baking soda
6 tblspns sugar
125g butter
1 cup flour
1 tspn BP
1/4 tspn salt
1/2 cup raisins or sultanas
Cut the orange into quarters and remove pips. Leave the skin on.
Place the orange pieces into food processor with extra juice and process until peel finely chopped.
(Orange could be put through the mincer if no processor.)
Melt butter.
Add butter and egg to food processor. Process for 5 seconds.
In bowl, combine flour, wholemeal flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar and raisins.
Add orange mixture.
Mix lightly and spoon into muffin pans.
Bake at 190C for 15-20 minutes or until cooked.
Stew Plums
Stew plums with golden syrup instead of sugar.
A lovely flavour.
Clove Loaf – Audrey
1 large cup water
225g raisins
1 large cup sugar
25g butter
Boil together 3 minutes
When cool, add following dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 tspn baking soda
1/2 tspn mixed spice or cinnamon
1/2 tspn ground cloves (I sometimes add a few chopped walnuts as well).
Bake in medium over 1 hour at 140C.
Spice Loaf
1 cup sugar
1 tblspn butter
1/2 tspn salt
2 tspns BP
1 level tspn cinnamon
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 level tspns mixed spice
1 cup nuts and sultanas mixed.
Sift flour, baking powder, spices and salt.
Rub in butter.
Add sugar and fruit and mix together.
Beat egg and add milk to it.
Mix with dry ingredients.
Bake at 180C for 1 hour.
Banana Bread
3 medium bananas
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tspn salt
1 beaten egg
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 tspn baking soda
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Mash bananas and cover with sugar.
Add beaten egg and melted butter.
Add sifted dry ingredients.
Add nuts.
Pour into well-buttered loaf tin.
Bake 1 hour at 350C
Nut Loaf – Ted
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup sultanas
1 cup water
1 tblspn butter
2 cups flour
1 tspn BP
1/2 tspn salt
1/2 cup nuts
1/2 tspn mixed spice
1/2 tspn baking soda
Boil sugar and sultanas, water and milk together.
Let cool.
Add flour, baking powder, salt, nuts, spice and baking soda.
Bake in a greased tin.
Moderate oven 45 minutes.
Puff Pastry
1 good cup flour
125g butter
Pinch salt
Dice butter into flour.
Wet with 3/4 cup milk, into which you have put 1 tspn vinegar.
Roll out and fold 3 times.
Date & Apple Muffins
3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup bran
3/4 cup chopped dates
1 egg
1 tspn baking soda
1/4 tspn salt
1/2 cup grated apple
1/2 cup milk
Sift flour, baking soda, sugar and salt into a bowl.
Mix in the bran.
Add the grated apple and chopped dates.
Stir in milk and egg until ingredients are combined.
Three quarters fill greased muffin pans.
Bake at 180C for 12-15 minutes.
Orange & Sultana Muffins
1 orange
2 tblspns safflower oil
2 egg whites
1 cup rice bran
2 tspns nutmeg
1/4 cup runny honey
1 cup skimmed milk
1 cup flour
2 tspns BP
1 cup sultanas
Wipe and quarter the orange.
Place in food processor with honey and oil. Process to a pulp.
Add milk. Process to blend.
Whip egg whites until stiff.
Place flour, bran, baking powder and nutmeg in a bowl.
Mix and aerate with a fork.
Add sultanas, then add liquid ingredients and stirr to mix.
Fold in the beaten egg whites.
Spoon mixture into greased deep patty pans.
Bake at 180C for 20-25 minutes.