This is a bit of a twist on the usual carrot cake. No eggs needed and a great way to use up very ripe bananas, which is always useful.
BANANA AND CARROT CAKE
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OLD ENGLISH BREAD PUDDING
Bread and butter pudding was a family staple in our house when I was growing up as I’m sure it was in many homes. As this recipe says it’s a pretty cheap and foolproof dessert and the great thing is that you can use a variety of breads, stale cake, scones, rolls or even biscuits as the base. I’ve always thought lashings of cream poured over the top adds to the delight.
DATE LOAF
If you don’t like dates substituting dried apricots in this recipe is a great idea. Served up buttered for morning or afternoon tea it’s always well received.
CURRY MEATLOAF
This meatloaf is a bit of a change from the standard mince steak/sausage meat combination. It has a sweet curry flavour which makes it just that bit different and it’s good hot or cold.
CHOCOLATE CHEESE BROWNIES
Here’s another of Mum’s pinned together recipes. If I’d realised that there was a cellotape shortage in her kitchen I would have donated a couple of rolls to her bottom drawer. I guess at least the pins kept the recipes together and saved pieces getting lost. If that had happened we’d never have had this Chocolate Cheese Brownie recipe to enjoy.
PEANUT CARAMEL SQUARES
Mum and Dad joined a bowling club in the late 1970s and it took over from golf as their sporting passion. I didn’t realize until I started sorting out Mum’s recipes what an influence that also had on her cooking. There’s recipes from her bowling friends, the club magazine and in this case from Bowls in Victoria magazine.
THREE NUT PIE
This combination of pecans, macadamias and almonds with brown sugar and corn syrup makes a lovely sweet and nutty dessert, which you can serve either warm or cold.
CABBAGE ROLLS
This recipe comes from the CSR Brown Sugar packet. I’m not exactly sure of the date, but I’m surprised it is headed ‘Try this new recipe’ as Mum had been making Cabbage Rolls since we were kids.
ALMOND CRISPS
When my children were at school I used to bake a batch of biscuits at least once a week and these were a great favourite. I must have written this recipe out for Mum grabbing the first bit of paper I could find and used a texta to write with, not a great piece of penmanship. It comes out of one of my biscuit cookbooks that was published in the 60s, but I made them a lot later than that. You’ll need 125g of butter.
CARAMEL PEARS
This is a recipe I used to make for dinner parties in the 1980s. Mum must have asked for the recipe and my daughter wrote it out for her and added the lovely drawing. Needless to say she did not go onto becoming an artist….
Beb's Recipe Drawer 