When I was growing up Dad grew a healthy rhubarb crop each year and Mum mainly stewed it and served it with ice cream as a dessert I don’t think she ever made jam with it. It’s never been one of my favourites, but I think adding orange and lots of sugar could make into a nice jam.
When I was growing up our backyard in summer always had rows of tomato plants covered with fruit. Sadly I don’t think that’s the case in backyards any more, but if you do happen to have an abundance of tomatoes you might like to try making either of these two tomato jam recipes.
The sun is shining, the weather is warming up, so it must be time to start barbecuing again. If like me you want a change from chops and sausages this pork recipe might appeal.
These are change from the more traditional lemon curd tarts. The meringue topping combined with the orange curd makes a great combination.
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.
The combination of rhubarb, banana and orange seems unusual to me in this recipe, but I think the banana and orange would take some of the tartness out of the rhubarb, which could be good. I haven’t cooked it as my husband hates rhubarb, but you might like to try it out.
These biscuits are a little unusual as they use jelly crystals in place of sugar. The original recipe has orange flavoured jelly, but I’m sure you could use other flavours successfully. I top them off with a chocolate button just to add an extra kick.
ORANGE CRISP BISCUITS
Cream butter with jelly crystals and sugar. Add beaten egg and the dry ingredients previously mixed together. Place in small spoonfuls on a tray lined with baking paper and bake 15-20 minutes at 180ºC.
This is one of Mum’s easy and tasty chicken recipes.
CHICKEN IN ORANGE
Put in a casserole and cover with the juice of 2 oranges. Cook in a 170º oven for 1 hour covered. Then take off lid and put 1 rasher of bacon on top. Cook a further ½ hour.
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