These are more of a biscuit than a little cake, but they are another one of Mum’s afternoon tea and supper treats.
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Category Archives: Biscuits & Slices
APRICOT ROUGH SLICE
It looks like Mum’s collected this recipe off the back of the condensed milk tin. I don’t especially remember her making it, but it looks great and I think I’ll try it out myself.
ROCK CAKES
I can remember Mum having these in the biscuit tin when my brothers and I came home from school ravenous. They still taste good and while they’re still great to have in the tin when the kids get home, adults done mind them either.
COCONUT ROUGH SLICE
I don’t remember Mum making lots and lots of biscuits, but she did make quite a few slices in her time. Unbaked ones like this one were always a favourite, especially in summer when using the oven heated up the kitchen too much. These days with air conditioners that isn’t so much of a problem, but unbaked slices are still a quite a good way to make a sweet treat.
APRICOT COCONUT BALLS
Of the two Christmas treats, these always disappear first. They are quick and easy to make, especially if you buy the apricots already chopped. I always roll them in icing sugar as there is already heaps of coconut inside them.
CHOCOLATE RUM TRUFFLES
Every Christmas I make these Chocolate Rum Truffles and the next recipe Apricot Coconut Balls. When my children were little I used to make them, put them in jars and give them to their teachers as a Christmas gift. I’ve kept making them ever year since. The recipe came from a newspaper cutting that I pasted into my folder years ago. As we don’t read the same newspaper I was really surprised to find the same cutting in Mum’s collection. I’m now wondering how I ended up with it, but I’m glad I did.
ALMOND SHORTBREAD DROPS
Just for variety I thought this more biscuit style recipe might be worth trying. Mum cut it out from the Australian Women’s weekly back in March 2001. I haven’t calculated the cost to make them, but I think it would be a bit more than $1.50 these days.
SCOTCH SHORTBREAD
I’m not sure I ever made one of Mum’s shortbread recipes. I found this one in an Australian Women’s Weekly 100 delicious Biscuits and Slices cookbook just after I got married and it’s the one I usually make. I like it because it is cooked in a tray and cut into fingers. The metric butter measurement is 220g.
SHORTBREAD
As well as lots of handwritten recipes I found this one in the collection. It comes from the side of the Rice Flour packet.
SHORTBREADS – Thel Payne
Christmas in our house always started with Mum making the pudding and the cake, the next thing on her list was fruit mince pies and shortbread. Although I’ve hunted through her recipes I haven’t been able to find her fruit mince pie recipe yet, I know it’s in there somewhere, but I have found lots of recipes for shortbread. This recipe seems typical of the handwritten ones and was given to her by an old friend – Thel Payne.
SHORTBREADS – Thel Payne
- 250g buttter
- 125g castor sugar
- 375g plain flour
- 75g rice flour
Cream butter and sugar, add flours. Knead in basin till smooth. Divide into 3 pieces and roll into circle approx 10mm thick. Cut into 8 to 10 pieces and bake in oven 160o for 5 mins then 120o for 30mins. Turn tray half way through. When cool dust with icing sugar.
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