Thursday, November 13, 2008

Mum's Play Dough

2 cups self raising flour
1 cup salt
4 teaspoons tartaric acid
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cups water & food colouring

Mix in LARGE saucepan over medium heat until it lumps - cook well
No wonder it tasted salty...

Mum's Xmas Pud

Makes 1 3lb pudding or 2 x 1.5 lb puddings

8 oz Currents
6oz Raisins
8 oz Sultanas
2 oz Mixed Peel
In a bowl with
2 tablespoons of Brandy
The rind & juice of an Orange

(Leave above overnight if possible)

Sieved Together
5 oz Self raising flour
A pinch of salt
1 heaped TABLESPOON mixed Spice
1 level TEASPOON Nutmeg

5 TABLESPOONS Milk
6 oz Margarine – melted
3 Eggs – beaten

4oz Brown Sugar
5 oz Fresh breadcrumbs

Mix together ALL dry ingredients

Add wet ingredients and MIX thoroughly

Grease pudding bowl/s

Cover with 2 layers of greaseproof & one layer of foil

Tie with string & make handle

Cook as instructed in Pressure cooker book of boil for hours

Once cooked and cooled, wrap in fresh greaseproof and store until next year.

Mum's Fudge Biscuits

8oz cooking choclate
4oz marg
3oz Icing sugar
1 small pkt digestives

melt choc & marg
crush biscuits in blender 1 at a time
add crumbs to choc
add icing sugar mix throughly
grease shallow 9" tin - press in & cut into square before it hardens