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Australian Recipes - Great Tasting Vintage Recipes From Down Under

Who said Aussies don't have great culinary taste? Here are some great tasting and inexpensive to prepare hearty vintage Australian sweets recipes that anyone can enjoy ...

BANBURY CAKES

• ½ lb. Pastry -- 5d.
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• 1 oz. Currants
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• 1 oz. Raisins
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• Half a Lemon
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• Half an Orange -- 2d.
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• 1 oz. Cake or Bread Crumbs -- 1/2d.
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• 1 oz. Sugar -- 1/2d.
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• Total Cost -- 8d.
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• Time -- 20 Minutes.
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Stone the raisins and chop them lightly, put them into a basin with the currants cleaned, the sugar, and the cake or bread crumbs. Mix together, grate over the rind of half a lemon, and half an orange.  Strain in the juice, and let it stand for an hour. Roll out the pastry and cut into rounds about three inches long. Lay a little of the mixture in the centre, close over the pastry, turn the cake over, flatten it out in the middle. Brush over with sugar, and bake in rather a quick oven. Serve warm.

LEMON BISCUITS

• ½ lb. Flour
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• 3 oz. Dripping -- 1d.
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• 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder
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• 3 oz. Sugar -- 1d.
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• 1 Lemon -- 1d.
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• 1 Egg -- 1d.
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• Total Cost -- 4d.
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• Time -- 10 Minutes.
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Rub the dripping into the flour, stir in the sugar and baking powder, and grate over the rind of the lemon. Beat up the egg and strain in the lemon juice; add these to the dry ingredients, mix into a stiff dough, and knead for a few minutes. Roll out, cut into small biscuits, and bake in a quick oven for about ten minutes.

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