Showing posts with label biscuits (milk arrowroot). Show all posts
Showing posts with label biscuits (milk arrowroot). Show all posts

Friday, November 28, 2025

No Cook Fruit Cake

8 oz (250g) coffee or arrowroot biscuits
1 T sherry
2 T cocoa
1 egg
1 T full cream dry powdered milk
4 T butter or margarine
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup mixed fruit
pinch salt

Method: Crush biscuits finely, add fruit, sherry, salt, powdered milk & cocoa. Beat egg & sugar together & add to dry ingredients. Melt butter & blend well through the mixture. Press into buttered tin. Allow to set & ice with white icing & sprinkle with coconut.

Source: contributed by Lisa Weckert, aged 8, to The Northern Automotive Restoration Club S. A. Inc. 10th Anniversary Cookbook . Compiled & typed by Lynne Newbold (Clare: Northern Argus, 1984) [Number 0408] - "dedicated to N.A.R.C. from it's [sic] feminine members."

Note: "T" = Tablespoon

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Yummy Balls

1 tin condensed milk
1 pkt. milk arrowroot biscuits
1 cup coconut
2 tabs. cocoa

Method: crush biscuits, mix all ingredients to-gether, roll into balls, using extra coconut if necessary.

Makes 48 fairly large balls.

Source: contributed by B. Bannister in Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.49.
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