scratch - Rock Cakes #2
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Recipe Link: http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/desserts/cakes/23/rec2373.html
scratch - Rock Cakes #2
1 cup alll-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
seedless raisins
2 Tablespoons orange marmalade
1 slightly beaten egg
Heat overn 425 degrees F.
Sift flour and salt into mixing bowl.
Blend in butter until it is like fine bread crumbs.
Add sugar, rasins, and marmalade and mix well with spoon.
Add egg and blend in flour mixture until stiff and rocky.
The mixture must be stiff, or it will lose shape when baking.
Pull off golf ball size chunks of dough and drop on baking
sheet about 1 inch apart. Do not smooth out dough pieces.
Bake for 15 minutes. until lightly browned.
Remove from oven and turn rock cakes bottom side up to cool.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Served as a snack with milk or tea.
Rock cakes is one of the oldest know written New Zealand recipes
and dates back to 1861. The dough should be made as rough as
possible. They were popular tea-time treats of the original English
settlers.
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