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Golden Syrup pudding (dessert)

Monday, April 16th, 2012

Ingredients

  1. 60gm butter melted
  2. 3/4 Cup Sugar
  3. 1cup Self-Raising Flour (or 1 cup normal flower and 1 tsp baking powder)
  4. 1/2 cup milk

Sauce

  1. 1 1/2 Cups boiling water
  2. 3 tablespoons Golden Syrup (or Treacle or even Maple!)
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 180C
  2. Mix all ingredients for cake in a bowl
  3. Mix Sauce Ingredients and pour into good sized oven dish (i like Glass ones)
  4. Carefully layer the batter into the middle, it should almost float in the water from the sauce.
  5. bake for 40 mins

This dessert is fantastic, a family favourite. It does take a bit of time to cook though, however you can pop it in the microwave for about 8-10 minutes and it cooks just fine. We prefer it cooked in the oven so it gets the crunchie crust on it, we usually put it on right after a roast.

Usually when its served its taken out of the bowl and flipped upside down leaving the sauce on the ‘top’ and crunchy part on the bottom. Goes great with ice cream.

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Quick Easy Ginger Beer (24 hours)

Monday, April 25th, 2011

  1. 2X 2.25 Coke bottles
  2. 2 litres (or just over) bottle of boiled/clean water
  3. 2 tablespoons of grated ginger
  4. 1 lemon (size doesnt matter much)
  5. 1 cup of sugar ¼ teaspoon of dried yeast
  1. Using a plastic funnel, pour the sugar into the bottle.
  2. Add the dried yeast to the bottle.
  3. Mix the grated ginger and lemon juice together in a cup or other suitable piece of crockery.
  4. Next you need to add the ginger/lemon mixture to the bottle using your funnel
  5. Add the water to the bottle until it is about ¾ full, then put the cap on and shake the bottle until all the sugar is dissolved.
  6. You then need to top the bottle up until there is approximately a one inch gap at the top. This gap is to prevent explosions once the yeast gets to work.
  7. Put the cap on the bottle as tightly as you can, then place the bottle somewhere warm. I put mine in my airing cupboard. You’ll need to leave it for 24-48hours to let the yeast go to work.
  8. Once the bottle is very hard, and can’t be squeezed, the ginger beer is done. It took 24 hours for my batch to be ready.
  9. Place the bottle in the fridge overnight. This halts the yeast and stops the bottle exploding.
  10. Once the ginger beer is chilled, pour it into the 2nd coke bottle through a sieve to remove lumpy bits.
  11. Pour it into a glass and enjoy.

Notes: You really don’t want to leave that bottle in a warm place for any longer than 48 hours.

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Stewed Plums & Ice Cream

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Ingredients

  • 1.5kg Plums
  • 1/2 Cup Sugar
  • 1/4 Cup Water
  • 1/2 t Cinnamon

Instructions

  1. put water , sugar and Cinnamon into crock pot and mix well
  2. Place plums into Crockpot, and turn on low
  3. Place cooked plums into desert plate with ice cream & eat!The plums will hold shape well and are just a little tangy inside (though some people like that!) , feel free to add more sugar.

Recipe by Lisa Kingsbeer

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