A recipe from my mother's cookbook. I just tell the scales to measure in imperial.

Ingredients

• 4 oz Butter
• 4 oz Sugar
• ½lb Flour
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 tablespoon Golden Syrup
• 1 tablespoon Milk
• ½ teaspoon Baking Soda

Method

1. Melt butter, sugar, golden syrup, milk, and baking soda in a saucepan.
2. Stir in flour and vanilla.
3. Roll into small balls and press with a fork.
4. Place on a baking tray with plenty of room for these to spread.
5. Bake 10 minutes in a pre-heated moderate oven (350°F/175°C)

This takes some time cooking and is ideally prepared the day before.

Ingredients

• 4 large grapefruit (about 750g)
• 2 medium lemons
• 2 litres water
• 6 cups sugar (1.2kg)

Method

1. Peel grapefruit and lemons thinly. Cut the peel into very fine strips.
2. Remove pith from fruit and cut flesh into small pieces, reserving seeds.
3. Tie seeds and some pith in a piece of muslin.
4. Add fruit, peel, seeds, and water to large pot and leave overnight.
5. Bring to the boil then simmer until peel is tender and liquid reduced by half.
6. Remove muslin bag.
7. Add sugar, stir until dissolved, then boil rapidly until setting point is reached.
8. Leave 10 minutes, skim gently and pour into warm sterilised jars. Seal.

I have a zester that produces long fine strips. Criss-crossing it over the fruit produces long and small strips.

Based on the recipe found at Instructables

Ingredients

• Sweet shortcrust pastry
• Apples, peeled and sliced (I used canned)
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon lemon zest
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons, plus 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

Method

1. Prepare baking tray with either baking parchment or lightly coat with vegetable cooking spray.
2. Add lemon juice, cinnamon, and 2T sugar to apples and mix to coat apples.
3. Place pastry on prepared baking tray
4. mound apples in centre of pastry.
5. Sprinkle zest over apples.
6. Fold up the edges of the pastry, making pleats as necessary, around apples.
7. Brush pastry with egg.
8. Sprinkle entire tart with remaining sugar
9. Bake 190°C until the crust is golden brown, about 20 minutes.

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Ingredients

• 60g Butter
• 2 tablespoon Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 Ripe Banana, mashed
• 1 cup Flour
• 1 teaspoon Ground Ginger
• 2 tablespoons Golden Syrup
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/3 cup Milk

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar together
2. Add egg and mashed banana
3. Sift in flour and ginger
4. Dissolve syrup and baking soda in milk and add to mixture
5. Mix lightly
6. Spoon batter into prepared muffin pans
7. Bake 200°C for 15 minutes

I baked these in a mini-muffin pan, a mistake as they are delicious bite size morsels encouraging you to have just one more.Advertisement