This recipe comes out of a Woman’s Weekly pullout called Pies without Pastry. When I first saw the title I thought the filling was rhubarb and butternut pumpkin which sounded very strange. On reading the recipe I was relieved to discover the butternut was actually butternut biscuits crushed to make the base. When you top that with the filling of rhubarb and apples and the crust of coconut and brown sugar you end up with a great tasting pie.
I always marinate the fruit for my Christmas Cake in brandy and then slosh a bit more onto the cake hot from the oven. It makes a wonderfully rich cake which is great at Christmas, but is a bit too rich for other times of the year. This recipe has a great tip to substitute the brandy with cold tea. I’ve turned a failed Christmas Pudding into a cake by doing that, but this is the recipe I’ve come across that suggests using it from the beginning.
My husband would say that nothing you can add to rhubarb could make it taste any better, but Mum and Dad enjoyed a bowl of stewed rhubarb with custard or ice cream and she must have thought this recipe would be a nice change. Obviously she couldn’t find the scissors to cut it out, I think it’s just lucky she didn’t rip through through more of it.
I know a dessert with canned peaches is very old fashioned, but having just come back from the fruit shop where new season peaches were selling for $15 a kilo, I think sometimes you have no choice. At least using amaretti biscuits modernizes the recipe a bit.
I’m not usually a great fan of white chocolate as I find it a bit bland, but I think this recipe which combines it with brown sugar, condensed milk, oats and cranberries would end up full of flavour.
This is a yummy slice combining cornflakes, coconut, sugar and chocolate. It comes from the Australian Women’s Weekly and I particularly like the Cook’s Note at the end about how to use a sandwich bag for piping the chocolate on the top. A great tip.
This is a more upmarket version of the old hedgehog recipe which was traditionally made with Marie biscuits. This recipe substitutes sponge fingers for the biscuits, dark chocolate for the cocoa powder and also adds in almonds and cashews. Much fancier altogether and I’m guessing much more delicious.
This little recipe book compiled by the Keysborough Bowls Social Club is overflowing with great slice ideas so I’ve decided to try to post a recipe each week.
I’ve made this slice many times myself, but I have it in my collection as Wanganui Slice. I’ve always thought that it was named after the New Zealand town of Whanganui. Whatever the name, it tastes good, although it is rather on the sweet side.
This recipe could be renamed Sticky Fig Pudding as it’s just a take on a Sticky Date Pudding. It uses dried figs instead of dried dates and looks delicious.
Pecan nuts weren’t something that Mum cooked with as I’m pretty sure that they weren’t easily available back when she did her most of her cooking. Although she kept this recipe I doubt that she ever actually made it. I think pecans work really well in a pie, especially when you serve it up with a big blob of cream.
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