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[Naomi]

My personal favourite

Bara Brith (Speckled Bread)

Ingredients:
• 450g (1lb) mixed fruit
• 300ml 1/2 pint warm black tea
• 250g (8oz) brown sugar
• 10ml (2 level tsp) mixed spice (I use Cinnamon)
• 450g (1lb) self-raising flour
• 1 egg

Cooking Instructions:
1. In a large bowl soak the fruit and sugar in strained tea and leave overnight
2. Next day preheat the oven to 170C, Gas mark 3
3. Mix the remaining ingredients into the fruit mixture and beat well
4. Pour the mixture into a loaf tin that has been well greased or lined with buttered paper
5. Place the tin in the oven and bake for 1.5 hours

When cooled cut and serve with butter

[Naomi]

Picau ar y maen (Welsh Cakes)

Ingredients:
• 8oz plain flour
• 2oz margarine
• 2oz lard
• 3oz sugar
• 1-2 tbsp milk
• 1/4 tsp. mixed spice
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 oz currants
• pinch salt

Cooking Instructions:
1. Rub the lard and butter into the flour
2. Add the sugar, currants, mixed spice and baking
powder, then the milk and egg
3. Mix and form into a firm paste
4. Roll out on a floured board to a thickness of 1/4
inch and cut into rounds
5. Cook on a greased griddle or a heavy based frying
pan for about 3 minutes on each side or until a
golden brown
6. Cool and sprinkle with sugar if desired
7. Serve alone or with butter

These would normally have been baked on a bakestone, still are in both mine and my mothers house.

[dinahsmum]

'MANGO' CHUTNEY
( You can omit raisins and nuts)

1 lb (455g) green tomatoes
½ tsp ground cloves
4 bay leaves
2 oz (60g) dried dates
2 oz (60g) raisins
1 tsp red pepper (chilli powder)
1 oz (30g) shelled pistachio nuts
Just under ¼ pint vinegar (90-120ml)
1 tbs fresh lime juice
¼ tsp crushed peppercorns
5 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg or mace
2 oz (60g) toasted almonds
1 lb (455g) sugar
1 tsp black cumin seed (kala zeera)
1 tsp ground ginger
¼ teaspoonful crushed brown cardamom seed

Wash and grate the tomatoes, or pass the tomatoes through a food mill to extract the pulp without the seeds and skin. Put the pulp in a stainless steel pan; add the bay leaves and salt. Simmer slowly until soft, stirring now and then to prevent sticking*. While the tomato pulp is cooking, wipe the dry dates and simmer in 5 oz vinegar til soft. Remove the dates from the vinegar, cool and shred. Make syrup with sugar and the remaining vinegar; add cooked green tomatoes, shredded dried dates, red pepper, black cumin seed, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and cardamom seed. Cook til it becomes a thick puree. Add the sliced, toasted almonds, raisins, pistachios, and lime juice. Simmer gently until thick. Remove from heat, cool, and pour into sterilised jars.

[alexgirl73]

Vegetable Broth

1 cup of Scotch Broth mix
1/2 cup of red lentils
1 leek
1 large onion
2 or 3 carrots
1 smallish swede
2 vegetable stock cubes
salt and pepper to taste

1. Put the broth mix and red lentils into a large pot and just cover with boiling water. Cover and soak for minimum
of 2 hours.
2. Chop all of your vegetables to your own preference (whether you like a really chunky soup or not).
3. Make up 1 pint of vegetable stock using your stock cubes.
4. Drain broth and lentil mix and return to the pot.
5. Add all your veg and the pint of stock.
6. Top up your pot with boiling water and bring to the boil, then simmer, stirring occasionally, for about an hour.
7. Serve and add salt and pepper to taste (or you can add these ingredients at stage 5).
8. Enjoy.

[dinahsmum]

Dorset Apple Cake

INGREDIENTS
7oz/225g Self raising Flour + one teaspoon of baking powder
1oz/25g Cornflour
4oz/110g Butter
40z/110g Golden Caster Sugar
1/2lb / 225g Cooking Apples (peeled, cored and diced)
1 Lemon (zest)
1 Large egg and 1 tablespoon milk
2 oz / 50 sultanas (optional)
To Finish
1 x Large Cooking Apple, Fresh Lemon Juice and Soft Brown Sugar
Grease and line an 8 (inch) round cake tin. Pre Heat Oven - Gas Mark 5, 190C/375F

METHOD
1. Sift flour, cornflour and baking powder into a mixing bowl
2. Cut the butter into small pieces. Rub into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
3. Stir in the sugar, prepared apples, lemon zest and sultanas
4. Bind together with the egg and milk
5. Turn into the prepared baking tin, level the surface
6. To decorate the cake
Cut segments from an unpeeled apple, soaked in lemon juice
Cut into thin slices and soak again
Arrange in a circle around top of the cake and dust with soft brown sugar to make a crusty glaze
7. Bake in an oven for 30-40 minutes
8. Cool in the tin, before turning out onto a cooling wire.

[alexgirl73]

LENTIL AND CHEESE WEDGES

8oz/227g red lentils
3/4 pint /450ml water
1 large onion
4oz/113g strong grated cheddar
1tsp dry mixed herbs
1 egg
S&P to season

1. Cook the lentils in the water until soft and all liquid absorbed.
2. Chop the onion and fry until soft.
3. Combine all the ingredients and press into a 9" sandwich tin lined with baking parchment.
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven (190oc) for 30 mins.
5. Cut into wedges and serve hot or cold.


These are so easy to make and soooo delicious and guilt free snacking.

[Mags]

SHORTBREAD

Ingredients
125g/4oz butter
55g/2oz caster sugar
180g/6oz plain flour


Method
1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
2. Beat the butter and the sugar together until pale.
3. Stir in the flour to get a smooth paste. Turn on to a work surface and gently roll out until the paste is 1cm/½in thick.
4. Cut into rounds or fingers and sprinkle with a little extra caster sugar. Put on a baking sheet and chill for 20 minutes. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until pale golden. Cool on a wire rack.

[Sweet]

Good idea placing the receipe here, rushing around today, I have not got the flour yet, but will keep you all posted x

[dinahsmum]

LEMON DRIZZLE CAKE
Grease& base-line 1lb loaf tin,preheat oven gas mark 3, 160C

Ingredients 4oz caster sugar 2tbs milk
4oz marg/butter 2 eggs
4oz SR flour Grated rind 1 lemon

For Topping: juice 1/2 lemon
2 tbls caster sugar

Method: cream together marg & sugar.Add lemon rind,fold in seived flour and beat in eggs,add milk beat for 1 min.Bake for 40-45mins
When cool spoon on topping

[Hreow]

Tuna "corks"/ cheese&spinach mini-omelette
Picnic or just quick and easy food:
http://www.catsey.com/showthread.php?t=20217