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Sunday November 4, 2007
Cons or scakes?
Feeling like I need coddling (yes - still feeling like that!) so on a whim I made some rock buns. This is my award winning [1st prize, Lancing Arts and Crafts exhibition circa 1968] rock bun recipe taken from the Radiation Cookery Book designed for use with the "New World" Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. And you thought it was only retro knitwear that interested me......
They are a little overly brown - but I blame the fan oven being slightly hotter than the recipe expected. These Radiation cook books (presumably free with the cooker) turn up fairly frequently in Jumble and Boot Sales, mine being the original from my Mother - we had the matching cooker. My advice is - lower the oven temperature slightly. We ate them with butter - as they were a bit dry, and as I said to George: rock buns are a bit like a mixture between a cake and a scone - hence, Cons.
Finally set my mind to finishing the sewing up on George's birthday jumper. Here he models it, protesting at the use of flash photography, as well as demanding anonymity on the blog....
After this I had clearly run out of knitting..... so I cast on some socks for a Christmas present requested by my sister for her husband. I decided to use some sock wool bought at Full Thread Ahead.
Read on for the Award-winning rock bun recipe:
Rock Buns
Ingredients
- ½ lb flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
- 1½ oz butter
- 1½ oz lard
- 3 oz brown sugar
- 3 oz currants
- 1 egg
- A little milk
- A little grated nutmeg
- Candied peel
Method
- Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder, and rub in the butter and lard.
- Add the sugar, currants, and nutmeg.
- Beat the egg with a little milk, and mix the whole into a stiff paste.
- Arrange on greased baking sheet in rough heaps, (makes 10), and on top of each place a small piece of candied peel.
- Bake for 20 minutes with the "Regulo" at mark 6.
Posted by Christina at 4:24 PM. Category: Kitchen and food
