Simple Flapjack

75g of butter or margarine

50 - 75g light brown sugar

1 tablespoon of golden syrup

175g of porridge oats

1. Put the butter or margarine, sugar and golden syrup into a saucepan and stir over a low heat until the fat and sugar have melted.

2. Add the porridge oats and blend thoroughly.

3. Press into a well greased 18cm square sandwich tin.

4. Bake in the centre of a moderate oven at 180c or 350f or gas mark 4 for 25 minutes or until evenly golden brown.

5. Mark into fingers whilst warm.

6. Allow to become almost cold in the tin before removing.

From: https://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/flapjacks.php

Oat & Rasin Flapjack Cake (NOT cookies)

Well this was actually a cookie recipe, but my loyal tasters said the cookies tasted a bit cakey. Not that cakey is a bad thing, I know, but IMHO it works better as flapjack or actual cake.

Ingredients

Butter 115g (1/2 cup in foreign) -- start with butter at room temperature!
Sugar -- golden caster sugar works well -- 128g (1 cup)
Egg 1 (1)
Oats 128g (1.5 cups)
Raisins 90g (1 cup) though I tend to put more cos I like them
Flour 135g (1 cup)

Making It

• Mix butter, sugar and egg together
• Add flour
• Add raisins & oats
• Put in non-stick baking dish - I use the glass Pyrex square dish
• Bake at 180C for about 40mins (check at 30mins but I don't think 30 is quite long enough)
• Allow to cool before you dig in

Rock Cakes

225g self-raising flour
75g sugar
1 tsp baking powder
125g butter
150g currants or raisins
1 egg
1 tblsp milk

Mix everything together.

If you like vanilla, add 2 tsp of vanilla essence. Or if you like nutmeg and cloves, sprinkle a little of that in the mix and give it another stir.

Put small balls of mixture on grease-proof paper on an oven tray.

15-20 mins 180C oven.

Bread Pudding

Put 250g of bread and 350ml of milk in a bowl to soak.

Grate the outside of an orange. Mix in a bowl with lots of sultanas. Add some nutmeg too if you like. Add the squeezed orange juice for a more orangey taste.

Add

100g brown sugar
2 eggs and
50g of soft butter

to the fruit and grated orange and mix it together.

Add in the bread/milk to the rest and mix until smoothish.

180C oven for 50 minutes

Your Average Basic Muffin

1 egg
120ml milk
200g flour
100g sugar
2tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
4 tblsp veg oil

Beat egg, add milk & oil

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder & salt

Add egg mix to flour mix and mix together - should be lumpy

Add in sultanas or chocolate chips if you fancy?

Put mixture in muffin cases on a baking tray.

180C oven for 20 - 25 mins

Ali's Ginger Biscuits

170g self-raising flour
115g butter
85g sugar
1 tblsp golden syrup
1/2 tsp baking powder
1tsp ground ginger

Melt butter & syrup to nearly boiling

Pour over the rest

Make into balls

Put on greased tray and flatten with a fork

Put in 150C oven for 10mins

Apple & Other Fruits Crumble

The crumble:

300g flour
150g sugar
120g butter (nearly melted)

mix loosely together by hand

The fruit bit:

Two largish bramley apples cut up into quite small slices.
Some frozen fruits-of-the-forest fruit (Tescos is good, sorry for the advert) so you have blackberries, redcurrants, raspberries, black currants etc

Put fruit in bottom of large baking dish - do not cook the fruit beforehand.

Sprinkle crumble on top.

190C oven for 40mins

PS I am reliably informed that Waitrose Summer Fruits and Waitrose Black Forest Fruits are suitable frozen fruit alternatives :-)

Brownies (with kidney beans!)

1 tsp vinegar
1 can kidney beans
2 eggs
65g cocoa powder
100g sugar
1/2 tsp oil
1 tblsp milk
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

(extra - some cooking chocolate... smash into very small pieces and add to the mix just before it goes in the oven)

whizz ingredients in some sort of food processor

20mins in 180C oven