This recipe is another one from the Pampas Pastry Finger Food Recipe sheets. I’ve just checked to see if Pampas still make sweet tart cases and apparently they do – I just haven’t seen them around lately. If you can’t buy them you could make your own using pastry sheets.
Recipe five in Scone Week is this much more unusual one. It’s really a cross between a scone and a fruit scroll, unusual but delicious.
Recipe four in Scone Week is an Australian classic. Lady Flo was a politician in her own right and wife of Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. He was a controversial leader, but she was a Senator for 12 years who fought for women’s rights and recognition and at the same time didn’t see anything wrong with a politician who could bake pumpkin scones. She published a cookbook and is still going strong at 96 – one of Mum’s generation.
Recipe three in Scone Week – Silvana’s Rough-Topped Scones. The ratios between flour, butter and cream seem a lot higher than in a basic scone. I must admit I’m a bit dubious about the recipe, but obviously they must have worked for Silvana (whoever she may be).
Recipe two in Scone Week is one of my favourites – Fruit Scones. I’m absolutely hopeless at making them, but always enjoyed Mum’s.
Taking my lead from the Great British Bake Off I feel I have to say – “It’s Scone Week” as I’m going to post five different scone recipes. Mum was a great scone maker so I wasn’t surprised to find this many recipes in her collection. This first one is the basic mix and then Cheese, Pumpkin and Savoury variations.
Winter is only four days away here in Victoria, so it’s time to start thinking of hearty winter casseroles. The combination of tomato sauce, vinegar, curry powder and brown sugar in this recipe reminds me of another one I make, which has pumpkin instead of the potato in it. The good thing with this recipe is that you probably have all the ingredients in the cupboard so it can be a last minute decision to make it.
This slice is quick to make and keeps well, two things that are hard to beat.
This recipe comes from an Australian Women’s Weekly ‘Pies without Pastry’ liftout dated August 1994. I love the first paragraph explaining what couscous is and where you can buy it. It was obviously a very new ingredient back then, quite a contrast to how easy it is to find in every supermarket now.
As you can see this recipe is from the Keysborough Bowls Social Club Simple Slice Recipe book. I’ve never made it, but I can remember seeing it on the table at a few “bring a plate” events back in the 70s when my kids were little. It’s sort of a fake vanilla slice – the plate was always empty at the end of the event it must taste good.
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