There are so many ways to give sweet treats to your loved ones, without having to spend much at all.
When times were tough in our household, I always offered a pudding, that way it stretched or meat and also gave the family an after thought, if they were still hungry it was there, otherwise they could microwave it later on, and teenages are always hungry.
So here are a few quick desserts that kept my lot feed over our penny pinching times, and I still make them today.
Rhubarb Sponge
Wash & cut the rhubarb and place in a pot and well cover it with water, bring it to the boil then turn the heat right down, add 1 packet of raspberry or blackberry jelly and stir until it has all dissolved.
Then from any cookbook make a sponge recipe and place on top, then cook.
This is lovely and not to sweet, and of course once refrigerated the rhubarb sets a little.
This can also be made with a crumble topping, it is lovely whichever way it is made.
Sweet Pastry Tune ups
You can either buy a block of sweet pastry($2), or you can
make it, then be creative you can either just roll it out and cut into shapes
then cook and ice, or you can cut into strips sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and then twist each strip like a streamer and place on a oven tray and
cook, or you can roll it and line a pudd dish and add any kind of stewed
fruit eg: apple peel and core 6 apples cut in half then slice so you get nice
half rounds layer them around your pastry mould and sprinkle with sugar & cinnamon place a pastry top over it or if only little bits of pastry left just
dab it on or you can put strips on and plait it it up to you.
Cook for 45 mins
at 180 and yum, you can fill with anything even jam
Or another option is
To make circles out of it and put into greased muffin tins, spike with a fork really well and cook then
cool and then fill with things like lemon honey, or fill with fresh fruit and
sprinkle icing sugar over the top or make neenish tarts most recipe book have
the lemon filling.
See with a $2 pastry you can be quite
creative....
Pineapple Pudding
Melt 50 grams of butter or marg, 4 T sugar, 1 tin
of crushed pineapple,6 T flour, Slowly heat in a pot these ingredients until
nearly thickened then beat in 2 egg yolks.
Pour into a oven proof dish and then using the 2 egg whites beat then with 1 cup of sugar until stiff peaks and pour over the pineapple mix then cook for 1/2 hour on 160 C delish
Pour into a oven proof dish and then using the 2 egg whites beat then with 1 cup of sugar until stiff peaks and pour over the pineapple mix then cook for 1/2 hour on 160 C delish
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
1 & 1/2 cups of flour, 1 & 1/2 t baking powder, 3/4 t
salt,1 & 1/2 t cocoa, 1 cup sugar, 3 T melted butter or marg, 3/4 cup of
milk, vanilla ess
Make these ingred into a cake mix, wet then dry ingred,
place in a greased oven dish then cover with this mixture as a topping
1 T cocoa, 1 Cup of
sugar, 1 T coffee sprinkle these over top of mixture then add 1 & 3/4 cups of hot
water then cook for 60 minutes on 180 degree celsius
Make sure you use a good size oven dish
cause if this overflows it makes a mess or failing that put the pudd container
in a roasting dish to catch any overflows.
