They are cheap and simple and work, nothing real fancy but nice.

Piklets
cooking time 5 minutes
Yield 2-3 dozen

1 cup SR Flour

1 tblspn sugar

1 egg

½ cup milk

1 tblspn melted butter

Drop from a dessert spoon onto a lightly greased, heated griddle or fry pan. When small bubbles appear on surface and underneath are lightly browned, turn over and cook other side.

May be served hot or cold.

Fruity Scones
cooking time 20 minutes
Yield 8-10 scones

2 cup SR Flour

½ tspn salt

1 table spoon butter or margarine

1 desert spoon sugar

2 tblspn sultanas or currants

150ml (¼ pt) Milk

Sift flour and salt into mixing bowl. Add butter, cut into small pieces, and rub into flour until mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs. Mix in sultanas. Make a hollow centre of flour and mix in the milk too make a fairly soft dough. Turn the mixture onto a lightly floured board and pat or roll out gently until it is 2cm 3/4" thick. Cut out into rounds with a scone cutter.

Place scones on tray and gather up the scraps and cut them out as before.

Brush the scones with a little milk.

Bake them 10-12 minutes till golden brown.

Remove the scones from the oven and place them on a wire cooling rack, covered with a clean tea towel.

125g (4oz) butter

1 cup SR Flour

1 cup coconut

½ cup brown sugar spooned in lightly

Lemon Icing

extra coconut for sprinkling

Ice with lemon icing while still warm in the tin, sprinkle with coconut.

Cut into squares when cold.

Lemon Icing

1 cup icing sugar

1 tblspn lemon juice

Pour quickly over the cake and if necessary spread with a knife dipped in hot water.

Damper
cooking time 35-40 minutes

4 cups SR flour

1 tspn salt

30g 1oz butter

1 cup milk

½ cup water

Cut across on top and place in hot oven 220C 425F and bake for 25 minutes, lower heat to moderate 180C 250F and bake for a further 10-15 minutes or until the damper sound hollow when rapped with your knuckles.

Serve sliced with butter and golden syrup or jam.

3 eggs

salt and pepper to taste

30g butter

Put pan over moderate heat and add the butter.. Pour in eggs.

Add

Cheese

Ham

Herbs/Parsley

Mushrooms etc

medium can creamed corn

1 egg

salt and pepper to taste

3/4 cup SR Flour

pinch nutmeg, optional

oil and butter, or dripping for frying

Drain on kitchen paper and serve immediately.

Mouse Traps

Toast Bread

Grated Cheese

Bacon Bits

Sliced Onion

Snow Drops

1 Cup icing sugar

½ C sultanas

½ C butter/margarine

1 C coconut + a little extra to sprinkle on

4 Tbls cocoa

Stir as little as possible
Hot oven 15-20 minutes

Short Pastry
1 cup/4 oz flour
½ ts baking powder
¼ ts salt
2 oz butter, lard or dripping water to mix to stiff dough

Apple Squares
1 short pastry cut in half and roll out thinly
Slice 4/6 apples thinly place on layer of uncooked pastry
Sprinkle apples with sugar and cinnamon
Cover with pastry and bake in moderate oven 30-40 minutes
When cool dust with icing sugar

Snack Attack Slice Muffins
What you need:

½ cup bran
1 cup rolled oats
1 and a half cups self raising flour
½ cup raw sugar
1 cup walnuts or pecan nuts (or unsalted peanuts)
1 cup dried fruit (apricot, sultana, apple or pear)
1 cup low fat milk
1 egg, lightly beaten

What to do:

Wash and dry your hands.
Turn on the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Lightly grease a 16cm X 28cm tin.
Mix all ingredients together and press into the tin.
Bake for 25 minutes or until firm to touch.
When cool, cut into pieces.
Wash, dry and put away the dishes.

Toasty Sandwich or Bread Surprise?
If you haven't got a toasted sandwich maker at home why not make a bread surprise?

What you need:
2 eggs
3/4 cup grated Edam cheese
1 slice of wholemeal bread per person
1 teaspoon margarine
Optional:
Chopped tomato, onion, pineapple, bacon or tuna.
What to do:
Wash and dry your hands.
Butter bread and cut off the crusts.
Press the buttered side down into the muffin tin.
Mix the eggs in a bowl and stir in as many optional ingredients as you want (See above).
Bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
Wash, dry and put away the dishes.

Prim's Veg Pizza
What you need:

2 cups plain flour
2 tablespoons dried yeast
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup of warm water
Suggested Toppings:
½ cup drained canned tomatoes or tomato paste
1/3 cup Edam cheese
½ cup chopped mushrooms
½ cup drained pineapple pieces
1/3 chopped onion
1/3 cup grated carrots
1 teaspoon mixed herbs

What to do:

Wash and dry your hands.
Turn on the oven to 220 degrees Celsius.
Mix the flour, yeast, oil and water to make a soft dough.
Knead thoroughly for 5 - 10 minutes.
Press into a flat circle onto a baking sheet.
Spread the drained tomatoes over the dough.
Cover with grated cheese and herbs.
Leave to rise in a warm place.
Add your favourite toppings.
Bake for 15 - 20 minutes.
Wash, dry and put away the dishes.

Basic Biscuit
1 tbsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 c flour
1/3 c shortening/butter/lard

preheat oven to 450F
mix and roll to ½ inch thick
cut to biscuit rounds
bake for 10 minutes approx

Break the eggs into a bowl and beat until the yokes are broken. Add all the milk and beat for 30 seconds. Into a frying pan add the butter and put on low heat (about 2 on a standard element)t. Dip one slice of bread into the egg mixture so that both sides are well coated. Add the bread into the frying pan, using an egg slice so you don't burn your fingers. Allow to brown, approx. 30 seconds before carefully turning over. When the second side has browned remove from the pan onto a clean plate. Sprinkle with cinnamon, and allow to cool before eating. Dip the next slice of bread into the egg mixture and add to the pan as before.

Rice Pudding
½ cup rice
1 lt milk
½ c sugar
½ tsp salt
½ tsp nutmeg/cinamon
½ c rasins

Bake for an hour more or less

Pancakes
1 ¼ cups SR Flour
2 Tbsp sugar
1 egg
¼ cup milk
2-3 Tbsp butter

heat frypan, put in butter
make a pancake

White Sauce
2 cups fish stock or milk, or a combination of both
1 ½ tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons plain flour
freshly ground pepper
salt
dash of tabasco sauce
herbs or seasonings of choice

Place margarine or butter in a saucepan over a low flame and melt. Add flour and cook carefully for a few minutes, stirring, making sure no lumps form. Stir constantly to avoid burning or browning. Stir in gradually the fish stock or milk.
Boil gently for about 10 minutes until smooth and thick.

Menu Ideas
Sausages eggs tomato chips
Fish eggs tomato chips
Steak eggs tomato chips
Rice Salmon fish sausages stew
Pasta Peas sardines mackeral
Spuds peas fish stew sausages
Fruit salad rice pudding
Porridge weatbix
Instant pudding
Pikelets scones
Fish cakes
Toasty Pies baked beans spagehitti corn eggs cheese/onion/pineapple
Sandwiches fish cheese eggs
Poached eggs fish sardines
Corn fritters
Omelet cheese fish ham mushrooms
French Toast
Pancakes with golden syrup honey
Salad ham luncheon
Bacon and Egss Tomatoes Chips Onions etc