Diana Holmes
125g butter
1¾ cup SR flour
1¼ cup caster sugar
¼ tsp bicarb soda
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tbsp cocoa
Place all ingredients in bowl and beat well until the mix changes colour and all ingredients are combined.
Pour into a greased and lined 20cm tin. Cook in a moderate oven about one hour, until cooked (if when pressed lightly in the middle the sides … Read more »
Janine Halasz
Unsalted butter, 8 pieces of selected fruit, 4 tablespoons of brown sugar and 8 star anise.
Arranged cut fruit halves on a lightly buttered baking tray.
Sprinkle with brown sugar and add star anise to top of each half (if preferred use cinnamon)
Roast in 200C oven until sugar has melted and fruit warmed (15 to 20 mins).
Cool and serve with ice cream, cream, creme … Read more »
Margaret Goddard
½ cup butter
¼ cup sugar
1 egg
grated rind of one lemon and one orange
vanilla extract
1 cup ‘dry’ stewed plums/rhubarb (very lightly cooked without much liquid)
1-1 ½ cups of sifted plain flour
1 tbsp lemon juice
½-1 cup finely chopped almonds (enough to coat the biscuits)
Separate egg and keep both yolk and white.
Cream butter and sugar.
Stir in the egg yolk, grated rind, a few drops of vanilla and … Read more »
Jen Severn
I used to call this ‘Jewel Fruit Cake’. But we were discussing Christmas recipes at a Triangle meeting and Niki Hutteman said, ‘Oh, that was a favourite with our family. We called it “Stained Glass Window Cake”.’ I was quite taken with the name. It’s because of the glacé cherries.
It’s mostly nuts and fruit and has very little flour, so it’s very easy to substitute gluten-free flour in this recipe. No-one will know the difference.
250g whole brazil nuts
250g walnut halves
Carolyn Bate
‘Betty Bate? She’s the best cook in Wollongong!’
‘Yes, but don’t eat on the day you go for dinner. The serving are huge and you must leave room for dessert!’
‘How does your mother do it? She’s whipped up a dinner for ten with a day’s notice!’
These were the sort of comments I’d hear about Mum’s cooking. I didn’t realise how good she was until I left home and had to fend for … Read more »
My lovely friend Janet, who we all lost a little time ago, cooked these two things with me often. We met on the street at the Cobargo Market and ended up cooking together, making jams and pickles, sharing our love of food and good times.
Aahh, the fruit cake! How many people say, “NO, I don’t eat fruit cake”? Well, that’s because they have never eaten a good one. And lots of recipes make it sound difficult and expensive.
Trust me, this one will change many minds, … Read more »
