Angela Marshall
4 ounces caster sugar
8 ounces butter
12 ounces plain flour
Cream butter and sugar. Add flour. Roll out, cut into squares, bake in moderate oven until golden. Dust with caster sugar while still hot.
That’s where Grandma’s handwriting stops but my mother has written under it: Bake on brown paper! So I always have.
(The shortbread should be poked gently with the tines of a fork before baking to make little indentations. Grandma assumed that you knew this … Read more »
Georgina Adamson
Put 1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup coconut, ½ cup each sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, finely crushed almonds or walnuts in a pan and toast gently over a low heat, stirring constantly until smelling good. Place in a bowl with 1 cup sultanas or cranberries. Melt 125 g butter, ½ cup honey, 1/3 cup brown sugar in a small saucepan until well combined and pour into dry ingredients. Mix to make a gooey mixture. Refrigerate till cool, then roll into balls. Nice little mouthful … Read more »
by Alfred Solti
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken wings (bone in and cut into ‘buffalo’ wings)
3 cups chicken stock
500 g smoked ham, cubed (or chorizo will do nicely)
2 cups chopped cajun vegetables
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
425g can chopped tomatoes
2½ cups long grain rice
2 teaspoons cajun spice mix
Method:
Fry chicken with ham in the oil in batches until browned. Add cajun vegetables and garlic, and cook until golden.
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by Alfred Solti
Ingredients:
8 ears of corn (or 2 x 420 gm tins of corn kernels)
1 teaspoon unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
½ brown onion finely chopped
½ green capsicum finely chopped
½ teaspoon white pepper
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
250gm chopped tomatoes
Salt to taste
1½ tablespoons whipping cream
Method:
Cut kernels from the corn cobs (if using). In a frying pan, heat oil and butter and cook onions and capsicum until … Read more »
by Alfred Solti
Ingredients:
1 large brown onion
1 green capsicum
2 celery stalks
Method:
Finely chop vegetables.
by Alfred Solti
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon onion powder
2 teaspoons white pepper
2 teaspoons black pepper
1½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons dried thyme
½ teaspoon dried oregano
Method:
Mix spices together and store in an airtight jar.
