1 � cups flour
1 cup boiling water
� cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 � tsp baking powder
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecan
� lb dates
1 tsp bicarb
Pour bicarb over chopped dates. Add 1 cup boiling water. Mix with a fork. Leave to stand.
Cream butter and sugar. Add 2 beaten eggs. Sift flour and baking powder together. Add flour and date mixture alternatively. Nuts go in with dates.
Bake at 180* for 3- - 40 min.
Syrup: 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water. Stir in pot until dissolved. Boil for 5 min. Add 1 Tbl butter. Remove from stove and add � cup brandy. Prick the tart with a sharp knife. Pour syrup over tart.
Gaby`s Puffs
1 pkt vanilla instant pudding made with 1 cup milk and 1 cup cream.
1 pkt puff pastry.
Defrost pastry. Don�t roll. Cut into squares.
Bake on ungreased pan at 200* for 5 � 10 min.
Cut open. Fill with pudding.
Sift icing sugar on top.
Ruth�s Prune Cake
2 eggs
� cup sugar
4 oz melted butter
Cream together. Add 1 cup self-raising flour. Pour into pyrex dish. Push in a lot of prune plums/apples/tinned apricots. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top.
Bake at 180* for 25 � 30 minutes.
Doreen�s Icing
60 gr margarine
2 cups icing sugar
� cup cocoa
1 tsp coffee
vanilla
Add a little milk or boiling water.
Ruth�s Ginger Cake
Sift together:
2 � cups flour
� cup sugar
2 dsp ginger
2 dsp cinnamon
� tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
Add: 2 eggs, 1 cup syrup, 2 tsp bicarb dissolved in 1 cup black tea.
Beat together and bake at 180* for 1 hour.
Doreen�s Fruit Cake
Cream together:
� lb marg
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
2 cups flour
1 Tbl milk
375* mixed raisins and saltanas. Put in a pot and cover with water. Boil for 10 � 15 minutes. Throw off water and cool. Add 2 Tbl flour. Add fruit mixture.
Bake at 350* for 1 hour.
Granny�s basic dough
� ib butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
4 cups flour ++
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add other ingredients and form into a nice dough.
- Leave in fridge.
Gaby�s apple cake
Mix together:
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 heaped tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
� cup oil
Pour 1 large tin pie apples into a dish � must cover the bottom. Add raisins and saltanas. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Pour mixture over the apples and spread it evenly.
Bake a 180* for 45 min � 1 hour.
Mom�s Chocolate Cake
1 cup flour
3 tsp baking powder
� cup oil
vanilla
4 tsp cocoa
1 cup castor sugar
4 eggs
� cup boiling water
� tsp salt
� tsp instant coffee
Into a bowl sift dry ingredients with 2 tsp baking powder. Make a well. Drop in yolks, water, oil and vanilla. Then 1 tsp baking powder. Beat 10 � 12 minutes. Add stiffly beaten egg whites.
Bake at 180* for 40 min then 200* for 5 min.
I usually one and half times this mixture, then bake for 50 min and then 8 min.
Granny�s date loaf
� lb dates
6 oz butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup boiling water
1 tsp bicarb
3 cups self raising flour
2 tsp baking powder
Sprinkle bicarb over chopped dates. Pour over boiling water. Soak for about 1 hour.
Cream butter, sugar. Add eggs. Add date mixture and flour.
Bake in loaf tins 50 � 55 min at 180*
Joan�s Cheese Cake
Biscuit base
2 cartons smooth cheese
5 Tbl sugar
2 eggs
� pt cream
1 Tbl flour
1 tsp vanilla
lemon juice
- Beat egg whites
- Beat cream
- Beat yolks and sugar
- Add cheese, lemon, vanilla and flour
- Stir in cream and egg whites
- Bake at 160* for 25 min.
Joan`s fridge cheese cake
(can be doubled)
250 gr smooth cottage cheese
125 marg
80 gr sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
24 tennis biscuits
- Cream marg and sugar.
- Fold in egg, cheese and vanilla
- Line a tray with thick foil. 3 rows of tennis biscuits. Cover completely with mixture. Then 1 row of biscuits in the middle and � biscuit on either side. Cover with mixture. Put cherries all way down middle.
Place hands under foil and flip up the sides into a triangle. Fold over foil.
Cover in whipped cream sweetened with icing sugar and grated chocolate.
Andrew�s apple cake
Beat together:
4 eggs
1 � cup sugar
� cup oil
1/3 cup OJ
Add:
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
4 big apples.
Bake at 350* for 45 min
Yvonne�s chocolate chiffon cake
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
3 heaped Tbl cocoa � Drosdy
2 tsp baking powder � level
� cup oil
� cup boiling water
4 eggs
- Combine cocoa and boiling water in a bowl and allow to cool.
- Sift flour, bp and sugar in bowl
- With a plastic spoon � mix dry ingredients
- Well in centre add oil, 1 tsp vanilla and cool cocoa mix and yolks
- Beat whites stiffly with � tsp cream of tartar
- Fold yolk mix until choc mixture is well mixed
- Add a bit of white to mix
- Then choc into whites
- Bake at 350* for 35 � 40 min
For icing use choc chips melted�..