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Caramelised Honey Almond Slice
School holiday time means you should probably top up your cake tins for the hordes of children. Here’s a slice for you to try:
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Versatile Fruit Slice
Versatile slice - so named because you can choose from such a wide variety of fruit for the filling. It makes a great Christmas treat to use fruit mince for a take on mince pies during the festive season. Slow-baked quinces was another very successful filling.
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Orange and olive oil cake
With oranges aplenty, this is a lovely citrus dessert cake.
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Beef and Vegetable Casserole & Chicken Casserole
We have a couple of recipes this edition, sent in by one of our regular readers. Norma has sent us recipes before, so I hope you enjoy these. You’ll notice the recipes come from the era of imperial measurements (and so do Norma and I!). Beef and Vegetable Casserole
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Mary’s egg and bacon pie
There are many ways to make an egg and bacon pie - but this way was new to me.
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Pumpkin Soup
Pumpkin and apples aplenty? Put them together for this warming soup.
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Roast potatoes - everyone’s favourite?
I can remember walking into a neighbour’s kitchen, many years ago, to see her carefully manoeurvering a large roasting pan of hot dripping out of her oven, ready to put her potatoes in for roasting. At the time, I’d already gone ‘healthy’ so was rather shocked by her
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Chicken/Sausages with potatoes, onion and rosemary
This recipe started out with pork sausages but I only had chicken thighs in fridge! So that’s what I used. Feel free to go with the ‘snags’
