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Persie, this looks delicious and I shal try to make next week. To many visitors to make it this week.

09.22hrs Spain

I should also have said welcome to being the first person on a new page

Bridget

Green fingers, thanks for the recipe,I will make this as it sounds rather delicious.

09.27 hrs Spain

Yes Persie here I am...will hopefully get round to making Lumberjack Cake this week....your recipe sound great....see further back for my black Magic pud, obviously of a similar genre. I have a recipe for Impossible Pie which I will post that makes like a custard at the bottom....just got to remember where it is ! Its an Southern States of the US receipe as is another i have called Dump Pie. I'll look them out and post

9.40 am Sunday Norfolk UK

Morning ,

The Lumberjack cake is in the oven,was a bit worried as i thought it was getting a bit well done ,but it looked ok when i put the topping on ,so we shall see ,11 minutes to go and it smells lovely !!

10.18 Norfolk UK

Impossible Pie

serves 6 to 8
4oz butter, 8oz desicated coconut, 8oz caster, 4 eggs, 4 oz plain flour 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 1/2 pt milk
Oven at 180oc Grease a 10" pie dish, Mix all ingredients together till smooth pour into dish cook for approx 1 hour. Serve hot or cold with cream or custard. It separates into layers and yummmy !!!!!!!!!!

11.45 pm Norfolk UK

Well the Lumberjack cake looks good , but i would advise you to line the tin well,at the bottom and round the sides ,so you can lift it out ,as it was a heck of a job to get it out of the tin !!!
I had to loosen round the sides and turn it out onto a plate ,which then made all the topping fall off ,but once righted i just piled it all back on the cake .

12.27 Norfolk UK

This is a very naughty treat -
When my OH was working every 13th week would be his turn to provide morning tea - I would make some sort of savouries, and pikelets (think you call them drop scones) or various styles of sandwiches eg Turkish bread etc or some other wrap type thing plus a cake, muffins or chocs.

One week I did it really easy and I bought a loaf of sultana toast bread and then put chocolate melts/buttons in between two slices, buttered the outsides and then did them on the hotplate like a toasted sandwich... cut into triangles and dusted with icing sugar and served warm.

Or if you have a sandwich maker you could do it on that but I would worry that the chocolate might squish out.

As Easter is coming up thought it would be a good time to do them again.

Persie 11.29pm - bedtime in NZ

Some versions of Dump Pie

1 Can strawberry or cherry pie filling
1 small can crushed pineapple, 1/ cup chopped nuts
1 Box sponge cake mix

Mix the pie filling, crushed pineapplle and nuts together pour into a 9" x 13" dish
sprinkle over the cake mix , and sprinkle with sugar and chop some butter knobs over the top. Bake at 180oC for about 1 hour

oR

2 cans cherry pie filling or peach slices goes well
1 box chocolate cake mix, 2.25 oz bag chopped pecans, OR if using peach clices use almonds chopped.
Dump the pie filling into the base of a 9"x13" dish, sprinkle over the cake mix,distribute knobs of butter over, then nuts and sprinkle with sugar Bake at 180oc for 45 mins serve warm with icecream

3.15 pm Norfolk UK..Monday

I am so cross with myself!!

With most of my attention being on getting the garden and the pool ready for the weekend, I have to admit that about an hour ago I realised that I had NOT cooked an Easter Cake. I normally do the whole thing, rich fruit cake, with almond Paste on top. 11 almond paste balls around the edge to represent the 11 disciples, not 12 because he was a traitor, and then I also make a small one if children will be here that is made from a sponge cake and put Easter bunnies on it.

ARRRRGH

Oh well better go and see what I have in the cupboard

11.00hrs Spain

nudge

Make a sponge cake instead 6oz SR,,6 Oz Butter, 6oz caster, 3 eggs...whisk altogether pour into 2 greased 6" sponge tins. Cook at 180oC for about 25 mins until skewer comes out clean. Make up butter cream I am afraid I always guess that, put in cocoa instead of some of the icing sugar. Sandwich together with some and put rest on top, roughly like a nest and fill top with small choc eggs and a chick if you can get one. The 6 year old you have coming with love it...not all little uns like marzipan etc, it is easier to have a sponge cake Hope this is of some help

2.45 pm Norfolk Uk

Greenfingers
Thank you. Today is one of my not so good days, and I do not know why< Oh well at least now I shall have a good cake to give to the visitors.I am sure that the young boy will love it.

I have bought the young boy a chocolate Chicken with some small chocolate eggs inside. Sure now that I am getting old as I was surprised at how much it cost 13 euros!! However I know that my children and grandchildren love having Easter eggs so I am sure he will as well.

16.00hrs Spain

Or....Make him my chocolate toasties,,,, if you have a cookie cutter you can make icing sugar patterns on them. I have a childrens' plastic baking cutter set for playdough just for this purpose - It has a rabbit, heart, butterfly, star and even a truck and elephant plus some others. I have often found toy shops have all sorts of little things you can use.

It is the same with books - often the childrens' ones have better explanations than trying to find an adults one.

My grandchildren like chocolate brownies with patterns or otherwise it is banana cake with chocolate icing and I use M&Ms or Smarties etc to make a design on top.

P xx

Persephone, thanks for your suggestions, they are all noted!

I will look out for some cutters when I am back in the UK for a few days next month.

09.04hrs Spain

Thought you might like a couple of unusual recipes. These come from cookbooks which are bordering on antiquity, as is their owner. Yell at me if you already have them. I haven't read through your entire thread, there is something nauseating about a grown woman sitting drooling all over a keyboard.

You will need to do whatever mathematical calculations necessary to bring the instructions to your understanding.

Tomato Soup Cake (One Bowl Method)

1 ¾ cups sifted flour
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ cup shortening (butter or margarine)
1 can (10½ ounces) condensed cream of tomato soup
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 8 inch round layer pans. Sift dry ingredients together into large mixer bowl. Add shortening and half can of soup. Beat on medium speed for two minutes (150 strokes per minute by hand). Add remaining soup and eggs. Beat two minutes more, scraping bowl frequently. Pour into pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Let stand in pans ten minutes; remove and cool on rack. Ice with cream cheese icing or use your favourite white icing.

Variations

Add 1½ cups chopped dates and 1 cup chopped walnuts into mixture and bake in a loaf tin for about one hour.

Or add one cup chopped nuts (or chopped raisins) and bake in the layer pans for 30 to 35 minutes.

Cream cheese Icing.

Blend a 4 oz packet cream cheese with about 1 tablespoon milk. Gradually add 2½ cups icing sugar. Mix well. Mix in half teaspoon vanilla essence (optional). Makes enough icing for two 8 inch layers

Second recipe is called Polpette which I think means Meatballs.

rind of a small lemon,
2 teaspoons parsley,
granulated garlic to your taste,
500 gm mince beef,
salt and pepper,
pinch nutmeg,
slice white bread soaked in milk,
1 beaten egg,
flour for coating meatballs
¼ cup cooking oil

Mince (I usually just stir) together zest of lemon, garlic and parsley. Add mince beef with salt and pepper and good pinch nutmeg. Stir in slice bread, crumbled and squeezed. Stir in beaten egg. On floured board form into small flat patties. Do not handle too much. Brown cakes in oil, 2 minutes each side. Serve hot with noodles, sauce and salad.

Wow never heard of tomato soup in cake....

There is a chocolate cake that has beetroot and I quite like zucchini cake and zucchini bread and then carrot cake so why not tomato soup indeed.

For an old recipe it sounds very in vogue.

Persie

Aunty Sherlock

I can't wait to try these. Thanks for posting them. Please add more.....

09.20hrs Spain

The use of the soup comes from book of uses of soup put out by a very famous soup canner. Surprise, surprise. My version is adorned with childish scribble which means it must be about 40 odd years old. The book has no date on it.

Let me see you can have:
Creamed Chicken with Almonds over pancakes.
Spread a burgers
Tomato Crab Cup (which is a cold soup and does not appeal to me at all)
Meat Loaf - two versions

and lots more.

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