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- home educating in Hamilton, NZ

TT : Spiced Apple Muffins

Spiced Apple Muffins
-        Foodtown Magazine, 2000 
1 ¼ c SR flour                                                75g butter
1 c rolled oats                                                 1 egg
¾ c brown sugar                                          ¾ c milk
2 tsp each: mixed spice, cinnamon       1 c grated apple [or mashed banana]
½ t baking soda    
 
Preheat oven 190 deg C.
Grease 12 cup muffin tray
[2x deep red silicone trays plus big blue one]
Mix dry ingredients together in […]

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TT : Coconut Fudge Bar

Coconut Fudge Bar
(microwave recipe)
-  passed to me by friend, Gayle B, 2002
1 cup flour                                        ½ c sugar
1 T cocoa                                          125 g butter
1 c coconut [1 c total of coconut, choc dots, cake fruit]
½ t vanilla or rum essence
Mix dry ingredients
Add melted butter and essence
Put into buttered flat dish
Microwave [750 watt m/w], elevated,
high for […]

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TT : Gingerbread Loaf

Old English Gingerbread
p.33, “Sugar and Spice” with Jo Seagar, 2000 (adapted, 2 T ginger)
 
Sift together
500g (4c) SR flour
1 t salt
1-2 T ground ginger
1 T BP
In a saucepan, warm
1 soft brown sugar
175 g butter
6 T treacle
6 T Chelsea golden syrup (from NZ, like a light treacle sugar syrup)
In a separate pan, warm
300 ml milk
and beat in
2 eggs
Combine […]

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TT : Mecca Ginger Crunch

Mecca (Deli) Ginger Crunch
Base:
1 ½  c flour
1 c each: coconut, sugar
2 tsp BP
125g butter
1 ½ T golden syrup 
Pre-heat oven to 180 deg. C
Mix flour, coconut, sugar, and baking powder.
Melt [in m/wave ok] butter and golden syrup and add to dry ingredients. Combine well.
Spread evenly in 30×21 cm swiss roll tin and bake 15-20 minutes [less […]

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TT : Soonafai Chocolate Cake

This! is my all-time favourite-to-make chocolate cake - it has been well-received at the last eight years of high-and-holy family occasions. It’s BIG. Have two glasses for separating eggs into, your “impeccably clean” stainless steel egg-beating bowl ready, plus another two big mixing bowls. Better to cook in two baking tins than in one big meat dish. Enjoy!
Soonafai […]

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TT : Mumma’s Pineapple Delight

Pineapple  Delight
- Mumma  Houghton’s specialty
 
1 (440g) tin pineapple pieces         ½ c pineapple juice
125 gr butter                                  1 c (125 gr) flour
2 c milk                                          4 eggs, separated
1-2 T sugar
 
Drain pineapple juice into a cup.
Separate eggs.
Melt butter, stir in flour, add milk &, while stirring, simmer for 2 mins. 
Stir in pineapple juice, egg yolks & sugar. 
Place pineapple […]

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TT : Impossible Pie

Impossible Pie
2 T butter               4 eggs
1 c milk                   ½ c flour
1 t Baking Powder    ½ tsp salt
1 c cheese               1/2-1 onion
Blend ingredients, then add any of the following :
parsley  - chives - garlic - tomato - bacon - corn - tuna
Pour into a lightly greased square baker or small pie plate (or 2). 
Bake at 190 deg celsius for 35 - 45 […]

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TT : Treacle Chocolate Cake & Dessert

Treacle Chocolate Cake & Dessert
2 T treacle
100g butter
150 g brown sugar
2 T cocoa
1 egg, beaten
150 g flour
150 ml milk at blood heat
1 t baking soda 
Preheat oven 170deg C. Grease and line a 23c cake tin. (or round).
Put treacle, butter, brown sugar, and cocoa in pot and stir over low heat until melted and smooth.
Cool 2-3- […]

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TT : Cookie’s Fusion Casserole

Cookie’s Fusion Casserole
Original recipe [with Chinese and Indian influences]
by Johanna Cooke Whittaker, 1984.
About 1 kg trimmed gravy beef (any meat suitable for casserole, even sliced cooked sausages)
4 Tbsp cornflour/starch - on board to chop meat into cubes
Marinade for about 4 hours in:
2 tsp. ginger
2 tsp. chilli [powder, less if flakes]
1 tsp. turmeric
1 Tbsp Indian […]

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