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- Subject: COLLECTION: Baking
- Message-ID: <9311240027.AA0075q@yetti.amigans.gen.nz>
- Organization: The cooks the boss!!!
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 16:27:19 PST
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- SALLY LUNN
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- 1 cup cold mashed potato 1 cup sugar
- sultanas 2 cups S.R. flour
- approx. 1/2 cup milk
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- Beat potato and sugar until liquid, add flour and enough milk to
- make fairly moist dough BUT not a runny mixture. Add sultanas.
- Pour into centre of baking tray, bake at 350 F. for 1/2 hr.
- Ice with raspberry and coconut icing.
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- Variation:- Add 1 tsp cinnamon with the flour and ice with vanilla icing.
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- BOILED PINEAPPLE FRUIT CAKE
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- (1) 450g crushed pineapple (2) 125g butter
- (3) 375g mixed fruit (4) 1 cup sugar
- (5) 1 tsp mixed spices (6) 1 tsp baking soda
- (7) pinch salt 1 cup S.R. flour
- 1 cup plain flour 2 beaten eggs
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- Boil first 7 ingredients for 10 mins. allow to cool.
- Add sifted flours and eggs. Place mixture in a 18cm (7") square tin
- lined with greaseproof paper. Cook for 1 hr. at 160 C. (320 F).
- Test with skewer. Leave in tin for 5 mins., then turn on to rack to cool.
- Store in airtight container.
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- BANBURYS (1)
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- rough puff pastry 25g butter
- 1 heaped dsp flour 2 Tbs brandy
- 125g currants 1 heaped tsp chopped peel
- 25g brown sugar 1 egg separated
- pinch cinnamon castor sugar to dust
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- Roll out pastry thinly and cup into 5" rounds. Melt butter in pan,
- stir in flour, then brandy. Cook 1 min. Cool and stir in currants,
- peel, brown sugar, egg yolk and cinnamon. Put a little mixture into each
- round of pastry. Draw up to the centre and seal with fingers.
- Turn each one over and roll lightly into boat shape. Brush tops with
- beaten egg white and dredge with castor sugar.
- Make 2 slashes across each boat with knife.
- Bake in mod. oven 25-30 mins. or until golden brown.
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- BANBURYS (2) (processor)
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- 150g currants 1 tsp mixed spice
- 50g butter 75g brown sugar
- 1 tsp flour 1 Tbs rum
- 500g puff pastry castor sugar for sprinkling
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- Fit blade and process the currants, spice, sugar, butter and flour
- and run for 20 seconds. Roll out the pastry 1/8" thick, cut out saucer
- size circles. Divide filling equally between the circles.
- Dampen the edges, Gather up the pastry to the centre and pinch together.
- Turn the pastries over and roll each into an oval.
- Place on dampened baking sheet and slash the top of each pastry.
- Bake at 220 C. (425 F) for 15 mins. Brush with a little water
- and sprinkle with sugar. Bake a further 5 mins. Cool on a wire rack.
- Makes 6-8.
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- BARMBRACK
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- 375g mixed fruit 1 egg
- 1 cup warm black tea 1 cup brown sugar firmly packed
- 2 cups S.R. flour
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- Place mixed fruit in the warm tea with the sugar, stir until dissolved.
- Let cool. Add the well beaten egg to the cooled mixture, then fold in
- the sifted flour, mix well. Place mixture into greased and lines 9"x5"
- loaf tin. Bake in mod./slow oven approx. 2 hrs. or until cooked when tested.
- Serve sliced buttered or plain.
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- SPICY FRUIT CAKE (processor)
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- 225g S.R.flour 125g softened butter
- 125g castor sugar 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 rounded tsp baking powder 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla essence 2 Tbs cold milk
- 125g dried fruit
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- Butter thoroughly a 15cm round tin or loaf tin. Line base and sides
- with greaseproof paper and brush with more butter.
- Place all ingredients except fruit into processor.
- Run machine until contents are well mixed. 12-15 counts. Add fruit,
- run machine 3-4 counts. Stir mixture round with a spatula.
- Spread smoothly into prepared tin. Bake 1 1/2 hrs. at 180 C. (350 F).
- The cake is cooked when well risen and golden and skewer comes out
- clean when tested. Leave in tin 10 mins. before turning out on rack.
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- Happy cooking Doreen
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