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[bramble]

Aberdeen Crunchies


4 oz butter
1 dessertspoonful syrup (or honey)
melt together in pan then add…………….

1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teacupful oats
1 teacupful plain flour
¾ teacupful sugar
1 tsp ground ginger (optional)

Mix well together and make into small balls and put on lined (or greased)

tin. Bake in oven 170 degrees (mark 3) for 15 – 20 minutes or until

golden brown.


Bramble

[bramble]

COCONUT AND LIME LOAF

100 g (4 oz)   Be-Ro Self Raising Flour
100 g (4 oz)   soft tub margarine
100 g (4 oz)   caster sugar
25 g (1 oz)   desiccated coconut
1                lime, grated rind only
2                        medium   eggs
1 x 15 ml spoon (1 tbsp)   milk

Topping:   
2 x 15 ml spoon (2 tbsp)   caster sugar
1                             lime, juice only
                             coconut for sprinkling


Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease and line the base of a 1 lb. loaf tin.
Place all the cake ingredients, in a bowl and beat well until light and fluffy.
Spoon into the tin and smooth level and bake for about 45 minutes until risen golden brown and firm to the touch. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes.
Mix together the sugar and lime juice. Turn the cake out and stand on a plate. Slowly spoon the lime mixture over the cake allowing to soak in. Sprinkle the cake with coconut.
Decorate with extra lime rind for a colourful finish.

[Bette]

Ooh, those sound nice, Bramble. 
A couple of questions - is baking soda the same as baking powder and how big is a teacup?!
Bette x

[bramble]

Baking powder and baking soda (bicarb of soda) are two different things.
A cup is a cup - not a mug! Off to measure the difference between cups and mugs.
Right - my cups are about 8 fluid ozs which is about half an inch from the top of my mugs. So if you don't have any cups, use slightly less than a mugful and as long as you use the same mark for all the  ingredients you won't go far wrong.
Bramble

[san]

like the sound of the bics. will put ingredients on shopping list ... ta 

[Bette]

Thanks, Bramble. If  baking soda is bicarb of soda, I think that means the Aberdeen Crunchies are what I know as Anzac biscuits - I'll compare the recipe I have for those with yours! 
I do a lemon drizzle cake regularly (Nigella's recipe) and often put orange in it too but I fancy trying your coconut one. 
Bette x

[san]

made lentil and carrot soup tonight. went down a treat with some french stick 

[Meggie]

Hi Meggie

I love Fennell too - how do you cook it though?  I have had it raw in salads but have never cooked it.

Hannah

I slice it fairly thinly, sprinkle with Olive Oil (just a little) and cook it in a frying pan, turning it to evenly brown it.  Then when part cooked I sprinkle Balsamic Vinegar over it and continue cooking until it is tender - it takes about 20 mins depending on thickness.  If we are eating Fennell with Chicken I cook the Chicken in the same pan, adding a stock cube and a little water.  The chicken picks up the flavour of the fennel and I add water and creme-fraiche to make a creamy sauce.

There are ideas on the Internet if you wish to try an alternative way of cooking it.

Meggie

[Hannah1]

Thanks Meggie for the tip - I have also heard of it being roasted too.  We sometimes do roasted Med. vege (peppers, auburgine, red onion, courgette, cherry tomatoes, etc)  so may stick some fennell in with that too.

Will try your way as well - like the sound of Balsamic vinegar with it.

Hannah

[Eddie]

Trying to make gluten free meals, today i made, Brown rice with tuna, peppers finely chopped. I was really surpised at how much better the brown rice was than if i had used white rice. Yesterday we had new spuds, salad, tuna again? red onion and boiled egg with a bit of dressing. Yummy, i'm enjoying these different ideas, i know i can use fresh meat too, but we could live on tuna, oh we also had, smoked salmon with philly and pots.
Eddie. x

[CLKD]

Real tuna or from a can?

Somehow I can't fancy the 'real' fish  - prefer to open a can and search for the bones 

[Bette]

I always use brown rice - favourite is with sweet and sour veg, sometimes with prawns added. 
Bette x

[Eddie]

I prefer tuna tinned, in oil. How do you make sweet and sour veg Bette. Prawns hot or cold??
Eddie. x

[Bette]

I just stir-fry the veg (sometimes include a fresh tomato and frozen peas) and add tomato puree (a friend uses tomato ketchup), juice from pineapple tin, sugar, lemon juice or cider vinegar and soy sauce. Hot water and a bit of veg stock powder. Add pineapple towards the end, thicken with cornflour and add prawns (usually use defrosted, frozen cooked ones) at the end to heat through. Sauce amounts are a complete guess, I'm afraid - just keep adding till it tastes right! 
Bette x

[Eddie]

Sounds yummy until the prawns went in. I just like prawns cold, but the veggies sound great.
Eddie. x