Taieri Recreational Tramping Club
Mid-week recreational and social walking group based in Mosgiel NZ
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
2 cups flour
1/2 tspn salt
75g butter
4 level tspns BP
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 cup milk
1 cup blueberries or sultanas or cubed pineapple or mashed banana or cooked apple
Sift dry ingredients into bowl.
Add sugar and stir in.
Melt butter and cool slightly.
Add milk and egg and beat to combine.
Then add fruit.
Mix 1 tblspn sugar and 1/2 tspn cinnamon
Sprinkle on top of muffins.
Bake in deep muffin pans 12-15 mins oven 220C
1 cup grated apple
1 cup bran
1/2 tspn baking soda
1/2 tspn salt
1/2 cup raisins or sultanas
1 cup grated carrot
1 cup flour (wheatmeal or white)
2 tspns BP
1 tspn spice or cinnamon
Mix together:
75g melted butter
1 beaten egg (large, or 2 small)
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup brown sugar (firmed)
Then mix in dry ingredients.
Do not over-mix.
Bake 15 mins 200C.
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup milk
125g butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup mashed banana
1 cup flour
2 tspns BP
1/2 tspn baking soda
1/4 tspn salt
1/4 tspn cinnamon
Soak the rolled oats in the milk for 5 mins.
Melt the butter.
Lightly beat the egg.
Add the butter and egg to the oat mixture.
Stir in the sugar and mashed banana.
Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
Add the flour mixture to the batter, stirring only to moisten the dry ingredients.
Spoon the mixture into muffin pans.
Bake at 190C 15-20 minutes, or until cooked.
Very nice served warm.
Melt in a pot:
50 g butter
2 tblspns demerara or raw sugar
1 tblsp golden sugar
Add:
1 unbeaten egg
Approx 0.75 cup milk
Half tsp vanilla
Stir.
– and add:
1 cup plain flour
1 cup wholemeal flour
2 rounded tsps BP
Half tsp baking soda
0.25 tsp salt
Half cup raisins or other fruit
Half cup broken nuts.
Spoon into greased pans.
Top with nut flakes, sesame seeds or similar.
Bake 190 C for 10-12 minutes.
2 cups sesame seeds
2 cups coconut.
Toast this.
1.5 tblspns flour
1 tsp BP
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs – beaten
0.5 cup oil
1 cup brown sugar
Mix all together and roll into balls and flatten with a fork.
Bke in a moderte oven until lightly brown.
1 tin pears cut into pieces.
1 tin boiled oysters (mashed)
Put into dish or long-stemmed glasses.
Sauce:
Half cup tomato sauce.
1 tblspn vinegar
Pinch curry powder
1 cup milk
1 dessertspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tblspn lemon juice
Mix all together and pour over pears and oysters.
Shrimps can be used instead of oysters.
20 Elderflower heads in full flower. Cut away as much green as possible.
Make a syrup from 2 kg sugar and 1 L of boiling water.
Add washed flowers, 75 g citric acid, grated rinds of 2 lemons and lemons sliced.
Put into a plastic container, stir well and cover with a cloth.
Leave for at least 24 hours.
Strain and bottle, then cork firmly.
Will keep for 6 months.
Pkt soft marshmallows
1 bottle cream
500 g pottle strawberry yoghurt
Strawberries, mandarins, peaches or similar fruit
Beat the cream until thick and add other ingredients.
Can be left in fridge overnight if wished.