Just desserts
Tonight I don’t feel at all well. If I knew why, I’d do something to improve my lot, but I don’t, and my magic wand for mysterious and ick happenings is unaccountably absent. So, while I go off and feel unaccountably not up to much, here are some of those 1950s recipes from my grandmother. That’s the thing about family, they can sometimes be there for you even when they don’t know what they’re doing. Since my grandmother has been dead for nearly fifty years, so it’s particularly nice of her to help out, under the circumstances. Please enjoy the Flummery in particular, since Flummery is such a gorgeous name.
Passionfruit Flummery
One tablespoon gelatine 1 cup cold water, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 cups cold water, 1 cup sugar, juice of 2 oranges and 1 lemon, pulp of 7 passionfruit.
Soften gelatine in 1 cup cold water. Blend flour with little of remaining water. Heat remainder of water and sugar, stir in flour and cook over boiling water for 10 minutes. Add gelatine, stirring until dissolved. Add pulp of passionfruit and whisk until thick and creamy.
Date Sponge Pudding
1 oz butter, 2 egg half cup sugar, 1 teaspn of baking pwd, 1 cup flour, ½ cup of dates & almond mixed. Beat butter & sugar & eggs well together add dates & almonds finely chopped, then add flour & baking pwd, & mix enough milk to make it as thin as batter; put into a well greased basin, steam an our; serve with sweet sauce flavoured with almond
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