Apple Scone

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Ingredients
1 medium cooking apple
225g/8oz self-raising flour
½ tsp salt
1 level tsp baking powder
55g/2oz marg or butter
55g/2oz caster sugar
Approximately 1 tbsp milk

For glaze
a little milk
25g/1oz demerara sugar

Instructions
Peel, core and chop apple. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. Rub marg/butter into flour. Then add sugar and apple. Mix to soft but not sticky dough with milk. Roll into a round 200mm/8inches wide. Brush with milk adns sprinkle on demerara sugar.

Bake at 200°C for 20-25 minutes.

Boiled Fruit Cake

Ingredients for boiling

340g/12oz butter or spread 
2 cups milk
2 cups soft brown sugar

250g sultanas
4 tsp mixed spice

Instructions
Boil all ingredients for 5 minutes then leave to cool. I always use butter for taste.

Other Ingredients
4 beaten eggs
4 cups plain flour with 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder or
4 cups self-raising flour

Instructions
Gently stir eggs into boiled mixture then add flour (and baking powder if used) and mix. Alternatively mix in half the flour, mix, then half the eggs, mix, then repeat with the remainder.

Place in a greased large square tin and bake for approximately 1 hour 10 minutes at 160ºC, until skewer comes out clean.

Cool for 5 or 10 minutes before removing from tin.

If this cake is too big for you, half the ingredients and it fits nicely into a small cake tin. As before bake at 160ºC for around 1 hour 10 minutes.

Will keep fairly well and can be frozen.

Karen's special chocolate-crunchy-nut-cornflake-cake

Ingredients
A dessert spoon of butter
Three tablespoons of golden syrup
Two table spoons of sugar
One tablespoon of cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate.


Instructions
Chuck butter in a big saucepan. Add golden syrup, sugar and cocoa powder. Bring the ingredients to the boil and simmer for about 5 mins but stir it all the time and be careful not to let it burn.

Turn off the heat, add the crunchy-nut cornflakes and mix well. Press the mixture into a greased swiss-roll tin and leave to one side to set for approximately 3 seconds before you dive in.

Karen's tip
Do not try to taste the mixture until it has cooled because boiling syrup hurts

Deb’s Pickled Truffles

Ingredients

Some cream
lot’s of dark rum
a blob of butter
lot’s of dark rum
dark choccie (chopped, grated)
whatever you cookie types do with it
lot’s + lot’s of dark rum …
oh and some sugar

Instructions
Chuck most of it in a saucepan and then add the choccie a bit later .. eerr and about 45 minutes later just give up, find the bottle of rum, a glass, put some ice in the glass followed by a generous helping of the dark rum. Finally add some coke … and that’s it. Forget the gloop in the saucepan ... sit back and enjoy what’s in the glass.