Apple Crumble

Ingredients

• 125g margarine
• 100g sugar
• a few drops vanilla
• 1 egg
• 220g flour
• 7ml baking powder

Filling

• Tin of apples
• 25g sugar
• Raisins or sultanas
• grated rind of 1 orange
  

Instructions

• Beat margarine, sugar & vanilla together & beat in egg
• Add dry ingredients & mix well
• Press half of mixture into a 23cm dish
• Arrange filling and crumble balance of pastry on top
• Bake at 160 degrees C for 30 minutes.

My mom would make the crumble by grating the raw pastry on top of the filling with a large-holed cheese grater.

This was a classic tea-party dish. I can't think of it without remembering the good crockery and silverwave and the fancy crocheted tablecloth. It's best served with a scoop of thick double cream.

I personally think the raisins are what make it great, but if you don't like them, you could always leave them out, or maybe even replace them with some other dried fruit. ;-)

Banana Loaf

Ingredients

• 125g margarine
• 210g sugar
• 5ml vanilla essense
• 2 eggs
• 260g flour
• 5ml baking powder
• 4 ripe bananas

Instructions

• Heat oven to 175 degrees C
• Grease a 24 x 11 cm loaf tin
• Beat margarine, sugar & essense together until light
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each
• Fold in sifted dry ingredients and mix in bananas
• Bake for approx 45 minutes

Works best with bananas that are a bit too ripe to eat, and is great when spread with butter (or margarine for that authentic 70s flavour).

 

Date Crispies

Ingredients

• 113g butter or margarine
• 1 large T syrup
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 225g dates (chopped)
• 113g rice crispies
• coconut

Instructions

• Melt butter, syrup and sugar
• Add dates & simmer (stirring) until fairly smooth
• Add rice crispies & mix well
• Butter an 8" x 10" pan
• Sprinkle with coconut
• Spread out mixture & sprinkle coconut on top
• Cut when cold.

T = tablespoon, i.e. 15ml. The coconut should be the dessicated type. You should sprinkle the buttered pan with coconut, and then spread the mixture into the pan. This way the bottoms of the squares get a coconut coating too.

This was one of the biscuits I used to take to university with me. They last a fair few weeks when kept in an airtight biscuit tin.