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Jackarse Easy Fruit Cake













Marmalade Steam Pudding













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Grapefruit and Orange Marmalade






Orange Chocolate Chunk Cookies










Oranges


Orange Cake
Lime Marmalade
Ingredients
4 medium sized limes  
2 medium sized lemons  
Sugar

Wash and dry the fruit. Cut through peel and pulp into very thin slivers; discard seeds. Measure the fruit and juice into a large bowl. (There will be about 2 1/2 cups.) Add 3 times the amount of water. Cover and set aside overnight. The next day, turn the mixture into a large kettle and bring rapidly to boiling; reduce heat and simmer about 30 minutes. Return to the bowl, cover, and set aside overnight. The third day measure the mixture into a preserving pan. (There will be about 6 cups.) For each cup add the same number of cups of sugar; mix well. Cook gently over low heat until the mixture thickens. (To test, drop a teaspoon of marmalade onto a chilled saucer and chill quickly in refrigerator. If it is of marmalade consistency, remove from heat.)
Ladle into hot sterilised jars and seal and apply a label and jar hat.
Jackarse Easy Fruit Cake
This recipe is from my girlfriend "Jackarse" it is so easy as a cake or pudding thanks love.
Ingredients
1kg mixed fruit
2 cups orange juice
2 cups self rising flour (or 2 cups plain flour and 2 tsp baking powder)

Soak the fruit in the orange juice overnight.  Add flour and mix in the flour nicely.  Pour into a 20cm lined tin and cook at 160ºC for 1 1/2 hours.

Steamed Lemon Honey Pudding
Lemon Honey Topping- Place in a basin 1 egg, juice and grated rind of 1 lemon 1 dessert spoon of melted butter 2 tablespoons sugar Beat all well together
Batter - Cream together 2 tablespoons sugar ...1 large tablespoon butter add 1 beaten egg.....1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder....1/2 cup milk Pour batter over topping in steam pudding bowl and steam 1 hour

Marmalade Steam Pudding
Ingredients
50 g butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup self raising flour
grated rind 1 lemon
1/2 cup milk
6 Tbsp Marmalade

Beat the butter and sugar together, then beat in the egg and lemon rind.  Stir in the sifted self raising flour with the milk. Place 1½ tablespoons of Marmalade in the base of 4 well-greased cups. Divide the batter among the cups. 4. Cook in the microwave on medium power for 5 -7 minutes or until steamed puddings are cooked. Alternatively place the 6 tablespoons of Marmalade in the base of a steamed pudding basin and spoon the batter on top. Sit on a saucer in a large pot of boiling water and steam for 1 hour. Turn out onto a serving plate and serve with whipped cream or yoghurt.

Grapefruit Marmalade
Quick an easy Ingredients
3 large grapefruit
6 cups sugar  

Wash 3 x 250ml jars in hot detergent Put into 100ºC oven to dry and sterilise Chop whole grapefruit into small pieces and particularly the peel into fine strips. Put into a covered plastic bowl and microwave on high for about 10 minutes until pulp goes soft, stir and ping for another 5-10 minutes if necessary For every cup of pulp add two cups of sugar and stir as much as possible to dissolve the sugar Ping in the microwave for 10 minutes uncovered, and stir to dissolve sugar again Ping in the microwave uncovered for another 10 minutes, and stir again to ensure all sugar is dissolved Pour into sterilised jars and add lids straight away.


Grapefruit and Orange Marmalade
Quick an easy Ingredients
1 large grapefruit
2 large oranges
6 cups sugar  

Wash 3 x 250ml jars in hot detergent Put into 100ºC oven to dry and sterilise Chop whole grapefruit and oranges into small pieces and particularly the peel into fine strips. Put into a covered plastic bowl and microwave on high for about 10 minutes until pulp goes soft, stir and ping for another 5-10 minutes if necessary For every cup of pulp add two cups of sugar and stir as much as possible to dissolve the sugar Ping in the microwave for 10 minutes uncovered, and stir to dissolve sugar again Ping in the microwave uncovered for another 10 minutes, and stir again to ensure all sugar is dissolved Pour into sterilised jars and add lids straight away apply a label and jar hat.

Orange Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
2 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp fresh, grated orange rind
1 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
3 Tbsp fresh squeezed orange juice
1 cup dark chocolate, coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 180ºC. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt and grated orange rind.   Mix well and set aside. In a large bowl beat sugars.  Add melted butter and beat well to combine.  Add eggs, and orange juice, and beat well. Add flour mixture, blending just until combined.   Stir in chocolate chunks. Drop by tablespoons onto baking sheet, 4cm apart. Bake for 12-15 minutes until cookies are slightly brown along edges.

Whole Orange Cake
So simple, just put everything into the food processor and then into the baking tin, for this very rich, moist orange flavoured cake which is and great with a thick chocolate butter icing.
Ingredients
2 oranges
175g butter
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
3 eggs
3/4 c slivered almonds
1 1/2 cups plain flour
2 tsps baking powder

Preheat the over to 160ºC.  Wash oranges and place in a saucepan of water over medium heat.  Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer oranges for 30 minutes or until soft.  Remove, cool and chop oranges roughly.  Process the oranges in a food processor until finely chopped.  Add butter, sugar, eggs, almond, flour and baking powder and process until smooth.  Spoon into a greased and floured tin and bake for 1 hour, until cooked.  Cool in the tin for 10 minutes then remove and cool on a wire rack.  Ice and serve.

 
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