Scones

3 cups SR flour
1 tsp salt
1 dsp icing sugar
2 oz (60 g) melted butter
1 egg
1 cup milk

Mix all the ingredients together using a knife (old flat bladed one is good). The wetter the mix the better. Turn out onto a floured board, cut with a scone cutter and place together on a greased scone tray. Bake in a hot oven for 10-15 minutes until golden and hollow sounding when tapped.
Place on cake rack and cover with a tea towel. Serve hot with lots of jam and cream!!

Apple Crumble

Place 2-3cups of sliced apple (either fresh or tin of pie apple) into a baking dish.

Crumble:

Combine in a bowl and mix to form crumbs:
1 cup SR flour
1 egg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar

Sprinkle over fruit. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted butter over the top.

Bake in moderate oven for 25 minutes.

You can use other fruit - apple with rhubarb is good or pear and apple
or peaches etc . Serves 6.

Asian Dipping Sauce

1/2 cup fresh lime juice (I use bottled juice for ease)
1/4 cup sugar - (I have used palm sugar )
3 tablespoons fermented fish sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
2 garlic cloves
1/2 teaspoon dried chopped chillis or 1tsp fresh chopped

Whisk all ingredients together until sugar is dissolved.

This recipe is great for Vietnamese Spring rolls but also good tossed on a Thai style warm salad.

Gran's Caramel Sauce

Well Phil's Mum's recipe!

Caramel Sauce

2oz butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 tin of reduced cream
1 tsp vanilla essence

Melt butter and sugar together, take off stove and add reduced cream and vanilla stir well til combined.

Excellent on Sponge cake or waffles or sticky date pudding or ice cream or just off a teaspoon into your mouth!!!

For a good waffle recipe go to http://www.jitterbuzz.com/waftrip.html and use the American waffle recipe listed under Waffle Recipes!

Stylish Macadamia Brownie

This recipe is from an in-flight magazine and came from a favourite Brisbane dessert cafe!

Macadamia Delight

Ingredients:

For slice:
· 4 eggs
· 1 cup caster sugar
· ½ tin condensed milk
· 200g white chocolate, melted
· 1 cup plain flour
· 250 macadamia halves
· 250g macadamia meal (or process 250g macadamia kernels in a food processor until consistency of breadcrumbs)
· 200g of white chocolate buttons

To serve:
1-2 scoops of macadamia ice-cream per person
½ ladle of chocolate sauce
1 chocolate sail per person
Or
4 passionfruit
Fresh fruit: 1 punnet of strawberries, or 10 lychies, or 1 mango

Method:

1. Whisk the eggs and sugar until thick and pale.

2. Gently fold in condensed milk, then add melted chocolate and mixed dry ingredients.

3. Fold in the white chocolate buttons.

4. Place mixture into a lined lamington tin. Bake at 160º for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden.

5. To serve, top slice with scoop of ice-cream. Drizzle of chocolate sauce and top with chocolate sail (melt chocolate, spread onto baking paper and, just before it sets, cut into triangles. OR to serve as tropical slice, drizzle slice and ice-cream with passionfruit and garnish with fresh fruit- top with white chocolate sail.

6. To make chocolate sauce, cut 185g dark chocolate into small pieces and place in a bowl. Bring 300ml cream to the boil in a saucepan. Remove from heat and pour over chocolate. Whisk together until smooth and all chocolate has melted. ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY I strongly recommend only using white chocolate and keeping an eye on the microwave during the melting process of same.