Christmas Rum Roll

Ingredients

  • 6 Pks Of Rich Tea Biscuits
  • One Pt of very Strong Hot Coffee And Rum Mixed
  • Grease prof paper

To Make Cream

  • 2OZ Butter
  • 4oz Icing Sugar

Directsons

With a food  processor.                 

Crumble the biscuits up till it is like flour.

Take out about 2oz for  rolling  out on to.

Make up the  coffee and rum mixture with hot water and let it cool down well.

In a big bowl mix the biscuits and coffee and rum together well with a spoon then with yours hands till it looks like pastry.

Divide the mixture into three.

On a sheet of grease paper sprinkle a small amount of the biscuits out of the 2oz for rolling out on.

Make a square from the pastry and roll out on the paper.

Roll out thinly then spread a thin layer of cream, then roll up into a swiss roll shape , and cut of the two ends.

Roll it up in clean grease paper and the place into frigde for a week before eating.

This is the one for christmas.

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Sausages Rolls

Ingredients

  • 1lb SR Flour
  • 4oz Butter
  • 4oz Lard
  • 1Tps Salt
  • A Little Water
  • 1lb 1/2 Sausages Pork Or Beef Pork Are Better
  • 1 Egg

Directions

In a bowl sift flour, and salt together.

Rub in butter, and lard with finger tips.

Add water till all pastry comes off sides of bowls.

Flour work top well , and roll out pastry in long strips, place sausage into the pastry on one side.

Then take other side of the pastry , and cover the sausage, this will make a sauage shape, cut the sausage roll to what size you would like your rolls to be.

Place on a grease baking tray and brush with beaten egg.

Cook on 200c for 20 mintues.

When cooked place on wire rack to cool down.

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Honey And Chocolate Chip Flapjack

Ingredients

  • 100g Of Butter
  • 100g Of Demerara Sugar
  • 100g Of Honey
  • 200g Of Oats
  • 50g Of Chocolate Chips

Directions

In the microwave, melt the butter, sugar and honey then let it cool down.

In a mixing bowl, add the oats and chocolate chips and mix together well.

Now add the butter, honey and sugar into the bowl with the oats and chocolate chips.

Now give the mixture a good stir.

Grease a baking tin.

Put all of the mixture into the tin, and spread well to the edges.

Cook on 180c/350f or gas mark 4.

Bake for 15-20 minuites.

The flapjack must be lightly golden around the edges when cooked, but still slightly soft in the middle.

Let the flapjack cool down in the tin for ten minuites, then turn out and cut into squares.

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Hedgehog Brithday Cake

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Ingredients

  • 4oz Butter
  • 4oz Caster Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 Tsp vanilla Essence
  • 4oz SR Flour

For Cream Filling And Top Of Cake

  • 4oz Butter
  • 8oz Icing Sugar
  • 2oz Cocoa Powerd

Decortion

  • Two Smarties
  • One glazed cherry
  • 4 PK Chocolate Brown Buttons

Directions

In a mixing bowl add the cream butter and suger together, and mix until soft and light.

Gradually beat in the eggs and vanilla.

Sift flour and fold into butter cream mixture.

Bake in one grease and line 8 inch sandwich tin.

Bake of 20 to 25 minutes.

On cooker 350f /180c or gas mark 4

When cooked leave in tin for 10 mintures to cool, then put on wire rack to cool down.

Why cake cools , take the 4oz butter and cream mix a little, then add icing sugar slow, and the cocoa powerd till it is all creamy.

Now take cake and cut it into half.

Sandwich the cake together with a little bit of the butter cream.

Place cut side on cake board.

Leave room for hedgehogs head to go on board as well.

Cover the cake with the cream leave the rest for head.

Shape head and nose out of cream.

Run a fork down sides of cake to make like spines.

Decorate

Smarties for eyes , cherry for nose , cover hedgehog with chocolate buttons for spines.

This is a great Birthday cake and go’s a long way at party’s.

This is a very rich chocloate cake!

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Cheesy Bread

Ingredients

  • 1lb And A Half Of Strong Bread Flour
  • 1oz Lard
  • 1PK Of Dried Yeast
  • 3/4 PT Of Warm Water
  • 500g Cheese
  • Salt

Directions

In a big mixing bowl sift flour and salt.

With finger tips rub in the lard, and then add the dried yeast, and stir it all in to the flour well.

Take the water make sure water’s not to hot, or it may kill yeast , and then the bread will not rise .

Pore water, into the flour and give it a stir till all flour is off the side of the bowl.

Now with your hand, turn out dough , on to a well floured work top.

Flour dough well, and start to nead.

If it start’s to get sticky , just add flour to the work top.

Nead the dough for 10 to 15 minutes.

Then put into a grease bowl, and cover with cling film .

Leave to rise for a hour or so , till it as double in size.

Then turn it out on to grease proof paper , flour it well .

Take the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin to make a rectangle about 1/2 inch thick.

Then cover the dough, with the grated cheese, and roll it up into a roll shape.

Next Cut in to 2 inch thick slices, and place on to greased tray, with cheese up right ,so the cheese melts over top of bread.

Now leave to rise again in a warm place for a hour or so, till it has double in size.

When they have double in size there ready to to cooked.

Cook in 200c400f or gas mark 6.

Bake for 10 minutes it golden brown and soft .

Place on wire tary to cool.

You may freeze if you wish.

Chocolate And Orange Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 8oz SR Flour
  • 3oz Dark or Milk Chocolate
  • 4oz Sugar
  • 4oz Butter
  • 1oz choco Powder
  • 1/2 The Rind And Juice Of A Orange

Directions

Melt butter and sugar in a pan.

Add to the pan, the chocolate , mix till it melts,  then add to it the orange rind, juice and mix well with mixer.

Now in a mixing bowl, sift flour, choco powerd, now add the melted chocolate mixture and mix well.

If mixture is to sticky, add more flour, you should be able to roll the mixer out.

Now roll out and cut out with biscuit cutter .

Place on a grease tray .

Cook 180c 350f/gas mark 4

Bake for 10 mintues

Let cool on a tray for 10 mintues.

Eccles Cakes

Ingredients

Shortcrust Pastry

  • 80z SR Flour
  • pinch Salt
  • 2oz Lard
  • 2oZ Butter
  • 30ml Of Cold Water
  • 1oz Caster Sugar

Filling

  • 1oz Butter
  • 4oz Brown Sugar
  • 1TSP Vanilla Essence
  • 1oz cherries chopped

Top

  • 1 beaten egg
  • 1oz sugar

Directions

Make up the pastry, roll out on a well floured work top.

Take the big biscuit cutter , if you have one, if not a glass.

Cut out all the pastry, and leave to a side.

Now make the filling, take a bowl, and put the butter and sugar in a bowl and warm it up in the microwave.

Add to it the rest of the ingredients and give it a stir.

Take the pastry , and put one teaspoon of filling , into the centre of each one.

Fold the corners , to the centre, turn back over and roll over with rolling pin one time just to flatten a little.

Then brush over and sugar tops.

Place on a greased tray space out well.

Cook on 200c/400f/or gas mark 6

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes

Take out oven places on wire rack to cool.

Custard And Cherry Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 9oz/250g Of Butter
  • 4oz/Half A Cup Of Icing Sugar
  • 16oz/2 Cups Of Plain Flour
  • Glaze Cherries
  • 4oz/Half A Cup Of Custard Powder

Directions

In a mixing bowl, mix the butter and sugar till light and creamy.

Next fold in the flour and custard powder.

With your hands take small amounts of mixture, and roll into a ball the size of a walnut.

Grease a baking tray, and put the mixture on the tray well apart.

Cut the cherries in halve, and place half a cherry, on each biscuit.

Cook on 180c/350f or gas mark 4.

Bake for 12-15 minuites until golden, these biscuits are very pale in colour.

Biscuits will be soft when removed from oven, but will harden when they cool down.

Ginger Nut Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 8oz SR Flour
  • 1TSP Bicarbonte Of Soda
  • 3 Tsp Ground Ginger
  • 2 Tsp Cinnamon
  • 4oz Butter
  • 6oz Golden Syrup

Directions

In a big mixing bowl, sift the flour, soda, ginger, cinnamon , and add to it the sugar.

In the microwave melt the butter, and syrup together.

Then add to the bowl, and give mixture a good stir.

Take tablespoons of the mixture , and in your hands make a ball shape.

Take a grease tray, and place the biscuits, well apart, and flatten them slightly.

Cook on 190c/375f/or gas mark 5.

Bake of 15 minutes.

These keep very well in a airtight container.

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Quick Fruit cake

Ingredients

  • 8oz SR Flour
  • 4oz Butter
  • 4oz Sugar
  • 2oz Currants
  • 4oz Sultans
  • 2 Eggs
  • 4 Tbsp Milk

Directions

Grease and line a 7 inch tin.

In a bowl add flour, butter, rub together with finger tip till its like bread crumbs.

Next add to it the sugar and fruit.

Beat eggs, with the milk, add it into the bowl.

Mix it all up well.

Place into baking tin and cook.

Cook on 180c/350f/or gas mark 4

Bake for 1 and a 1/2 hour’s.

This is very nice, with home made jam.

For my home made jam , please check out the Jam section.