Ginger Bread

Ginger Bread

175g butter

2 tbsp fresh milk

125g black treacle

210g self-raising flour

½ tsp cinnamon powder

3 eggs (Grade A)

1 egg yolk

110g soft brown sugar

½ tsp vanilla essence

1½ tbsp freshly grated ginger (squeezed for juice)

1 tsp grated lemon rind

Combine butter, milk and black treacle in a non-stick saucepan. Heat over low fire until butter melts.

Sift flour and cinnamon powder into a mixing bowl. Beat eggs, egg yolk, brown sugar and essence until creamy and thick.

Add ginger juice and lemon rind, and stir in butter and treacle mixture and mix until well blended. Stir in flour.

Pour batter into a lightly greased loaf tin and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 1 hour or 1 hour and 15-20 minutes or until cooked through.

Cool the ginger bread slightly before turning out onto a wire rack.

Stradfort old bread pudding

Ingredients
45 slices of bread (cut all the sides)
1 can of eveporated milk
half a litre fresh milk
5 well-beaten eggs
1 cup of crushed walnuts
1 cup of crushed almonds
1 cup of raisins
1/2 cup of desiccated coconut
1 cup of sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon bicarbonate soda

Method
1. Grease a baking pan measuring 10 inches X 10 inches
(height 5").

2. Layer 9 slices of bread on the pan.

3. Sprinkle walnut, almonds, desiccated coconut and raisins on the bread pieces.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, till you get 5 layers altogether. On the last top layer, sprinkle all the walnuts and almonds.

5. Combine evaporated milk, fresh milk and eggs with baking powder and bicarbonate soda in a bowl and mix well.

6. Slowly pour the mixture into the baking pan till the bread layers are soaked.

7. Bake it in 170 Celcius for 30 minutes. Serve the pudding cold.

Bread crumbs banana

Ingredients
Four slices of bread
One big ripe banana
One tablespoon rice flour
One tablespoon gram flour
Two teaspoon sugar
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Method
1. Cut bread into pieces and put inside a mixer. Grind the bread into bread crumbs.

2. Cut the banana into fine pieces, but don't mash them.

3. Combine the bread crumbs, banana and other ingredients, except the oil, inside a bow and mix well into a dough.

4. Make small balls from the dough and fry in medium hot oil. Serve for tea.

- Recipe courtesy of Chandravathani Sathasivam