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The Old Black Billy and Me
by Louis Esson
The sheep are yarded, an’ I sit
Beside the fire an’ poke at it.
Far from talk an’ booze o’ men
Glad, I’m glad I’m back agen
On the station, wi’ me traps
An’ fencin’ wire, an’ tanks an’ taps,
Back to salt-bush plains, an’ flocks,
An’ old bark hut be the apple-box.
I turn the slipjack, make the tea,
All’s as still as still can be -
An’ the old black billy winks at me.
Boiled Whisky Fruit Cake
Ingredients
1 1/2 lb mixed dried fruit
6 oz fresh butter
3/4 cup water
1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup quality whisky
3 large farm eggs
1 cup plain flour
1 1/2 cups self raising flour
1 1/2 teaspoons mixed spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
Method
Grease a deep 20cm cake tin and line with greased brown paper or two layers of greased greaseproof paper. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Place the dried fruit in a large saucepan with the butter, water and brown sugar. Bring slowly to the boil, then simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool until lukewarm. Stir in the whisky and add the eggs to the mixture one at a time, beating well each time with a wooden spoon. Sift the flours with the spice, salt and bicarbonate and stir into the mixture, combining thoroughly. Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes. Reduce the heat to 160 degrees C and cook for a further 45 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake. Leave the cake in the tin for 2 minutes, then turn out onto a wire cake rack and allow to cook before removing the paper.
Orange Tea Cake
Ingredients
2 tablespoons softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
Zest and juice of one orange
1 cup self-raising flour
1 dessertspoon cornflour
Milk if required
1 tablespoon extra sugar
Method
Preheat oven to 350 F Grease a round 8 inch cake tin and line the base with paper. Cream butter and sugar, add egg and beat well. Add zest and juice of orange (mixture will curdle). Sift in all the dry ingredients mixing well. If there’s not enough juice in the orange, a little milk may be added. Pour into prepared cake tin and sprinkle with extra sugar. Bake for about 30 minutes, until cooked.
Tea Cake
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
icing sugar
Method
Cream butter and sugar, beating till light and soft, add unbeaten eggs one at a time, beating well each time, sift flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately with the milk and vanilla, beat well and turn into a shallow greased tin, bake 30 minutes in moderate oven (375oF). Allow to cool down very slightly, and while still hot dust well with icing sugar, cut into squares and serve while warm.
Simple Madeira Cake
Ingredients
1/2 cup Milk
4ozs Butter
2 fresh Eggs
1 cup Self Raising Flour
1 tablespoon Cornflour
3/4 cup Caster Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Essence
Method
Put all the ingredients in bowl and beat well for around 5 minutes. Pour into prepared bar tin of approx. 9" x 3" x 4½". Bake in moderate oven for one hour or until cooked.
Date Rollettes
Ingredients
1/4 1b butter
1/2 1b sugar
2 eggs
Few drops vanilla essence
Enough flour to make a stiff dough
salt
1 cup dates
Method
Mix butter and sugar (do not beat), add unbeaten eggs, then vanilla, flour, and salt, roll about 1 teaspoon round each date, bake in a slow oven about 30 minutes.
Prevent Cakes Becoming Stale -Put a thick slice of bread in the crock or tin in which the cakes are kept, and renew it every third day.
Rollettes
Ingredients
3 eggs
8 level tablespoons sugar
8 level tablespoons flour
Little jam
2 level teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons hot water
Method
Beat yolks and whites separately till stiff, then beat together, add sugar and continue beating till thick. Stir in sifted flour and baking powder, mixing very lightly, add hot water. Pour into 3 Swiss roll tins measuring 10 inches by 8 inches, lined with greased paper and with sides greased, bake in a moderate oven about 8 minutes, lay a paper sprinkled with sugar over a damp cloth, and turn cake out on to this. While hot, quickly cut off edges of cake, roll up from each end to centre, then unroll, spread with warm jam, roll up again from each end to centre, when cold cut into 2 ½ inch rolls.
Stuffed Monkeys
Ingredients
1/2 lb butter or lard and butter mixed
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
little milk
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
Mince Filling
1 lb sultanas
1/2 lb currants
1/4 lb candied peel
nutmeg
spice
1/2 lb chopped suet
4 apples (grated)
lemon juice
brandy
1 cup sugar
mince all together
Method
Cream butter and sugar, sift flour with cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda, add spice and cinnamon, add well beaten egg and a little milk if required, mix well, roll out and cut into biscuit shapes, putting Christmas mince between. Mince is made by mixing ingredients under that heading together. Sprinkle with nutmeg and sugar and bake 15 minutes.
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Viennese Cream Roses
Ingredients
1/2 lb butter
2 oz. icing sugar
vanilla essence
1/2 lb flour
A few cherries
Method
Cream butter and icing sugar, then add vanilla and flour, place mixture in bag and large rose or cream pipe, and press each rose flat as it is formed, to keep it thin, decorate with cherry in centre, bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes but do not brown.
Caramel for Colouring- Put 1/4 lb sugar into a saucepan, and heat until it goes very brown. Pour over it 1/4 pint water and stir till it boils and all the sugar is dissolved. Strain, and when cold, put into a wide-mouthed bottle. Cork well and keep for colouring soup, gravy, etc.
Doughnuts
Ingredients
1/2 lb flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 oz. butter
2 oz. sugar
2 eggs
About 1/2 gill milk
A little castor sugar
1 lemon
Method
Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg, rub in butter, add sugar, then well beaten eggs, and sufficient milk to mix into a soft dough, turn on to a floured board, roll out 1/2 inch thick, cut into rings with a doughnut cutter or 2 cutters, French fry till doughnuts are a golden brown, sprinkle with castor sugar and serve hot with slices of lemon. NOTE: This mixture makes about 15 doughnuts.
Tea Cakes
Ingredients
6 lumps loaf sugar
1 orange
3 oz. butter
6 oz. flour
pinch salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1 egg
1/2 gill milk
Method
The oven should be heated to 500oF (very hot), rub butter into sifted flour, baking powder, salt, and the 1 teaspoon sugar, bind to a stiff dough with beaten egg and milk and add grated rind of 1 orange, roll out 1/2 inch thick, soak loaf sugar in juice of 1 orange, cut dough into rounds, and put some of the loaf sugar on top of each round, bake 8 to 10 minutes.
Kisses
Ingredients
1/2 lb butter
1/2 1b sugar
4 eggs
1/2 lb flour
1/2 lb cornflour
pinch salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Method
Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add well beaten eggs, stir in lightly the sifted flour, cornflour, salt, and baking powder. Place in teaspoonfuls on a greased tin, bake in a moderate oven for about 15 minutes. When cold join with jam, cream, or icing and sprinkle with icing sugar.
CLEANING FLUID-2 oz of ammonia, 2 oz of white Castile soap, 1 oz of alcohol, 1 oz of glycerine, 1 oz of ether, 2 1/2 quarts of hot water.
Method: Cut the soap into fine shavings and put on the stove to melt in a quart of water. As soon as it is thoroughly melted, add the rest of the water and when nearly cold, stir in the other ingredients. Bottle and cork tightly. To sponge a dress, add a little more than a cupful of cold water to a cup of the fluid, and mix thoroughly before using. This fluid will remove grease spots from carpets, coats or any other woollen textures, also paint from furniture or ink from paint. When the spots are very bad, use undiluted. Rub it on with a piece of cloth or flannel. This fluid will keep for an indefinite period and is a most excellent recipe. (From old pages)
Australian Lamingtons
Ingredients
3 eggs
scant teacup honey
1 teacup self-raising flour
pinch salt
1 dessertspoon cold water
Icing:
2 egg whites
1 scant teacup icing sugar
3 teaspoons cocoa
coconut
Method
Beat whites of 2 of the eggs with honey till stiff, beat the 2 yolks well with the remaining egg, mix gently into egg white and honey mixture, fold in flour sifted with salt, mix water in lightly, bake in well greased baking dish in a moderate oven. For icing, beat egg whites till stiff, fold in icing sugar sifted with cocoa, cut cake into squares, coat with icing and roll in coconut. NOTE: These cakes will keep well.
Australian Lamingtons
Ingredients
1/2 lb butter
1/2 lb sugar
3 eggs
3/4 lb flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
pinch salt
3/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
essence vanilla
warm chocolate icing
coconut
Method
Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, add flour, cream of tartar, and salt sifted together, lastly add milk with soda dissolved in it, and essence of vanilla. Place on a flat tray lined with greaseproof paper, bake in a moderate oven 30 to 40 minutes. When cold cut into small squares, dip each square into thin warm chocolate icing, roll in coconut and allow to set.
Meringues
Ingredients
3 egg whites
4 oz. crystal sugar
4 oz. castor sugar
Method
Beat egg whites till frothy, add crystal sugar and beat till stiff, fold in castor sugar, bake in a slow oven (300oF), till crisp.
To Wash Clothes-To every 2 1/2 gallons of water allow 1 lb yellow soap and 1 tablespoon kerosene. Boil this together for 1/2 an hour in the copper. When it is lukewarm put the linen in and soak all night. In the morning light a small fire underneath and bring the contents slowly to a gentle boil, which must be kept up for ½ an hour. Remove the linen, wring it out, and then wash a little in the usual way and rinse well. Unless the clothes are very dirty they will hardly need any rubbing at all. Only white clothes must be treated in this way.
Fudge Cake
Ingredients
1/4 lb butter
1 small cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 small cup water
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
2 heaped tablespoons cocoa
Icing
1 cup brown sugar, 1 dessertspoon butter, 3 tablespoons water
Method
Beat butter and sugar to cream, add beaten egg and essence, add water and flour sifted with cocoa alternately, and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. For icing, mix sugar, butter, and water and boil 4 minutes, beat till thick, pour over cake.
Gingerbread
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup honey
2 1/2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 cup hot water
Method
Cream butter and sugar and add beaten egg, add honey, then flour, soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt (sifted together), lastly add water. Beat till smooth, bake in a well greased tin in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.
Ginger Sponge
Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup honey
1 1/4 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 cup hot water
Filling
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons honey
vanilla essence
Method
Cream butter and sugar, and add beaten egg. Add honey, then add flour, soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt (sifted together), add hot water. Beat till smooth, pour into well greased tins, and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. For filling, mix butter, honey, and vanilla essence together and beat to a cream.
To Clean Copper Pans - 2 tablespoons of strong vinegar, and 1 tablespoon of salt. Rub the pan with mixture with a piece of flannel. Wash in clean hot water, and dry thoroughly. (From old pages. Interest piece only)
Honey Rolls
Ingredients
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 scant tablespoons honey
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
2 teacups self-raising flour
pinch salt
Method
Cream butter and honey, add egg, and beat, add milk, and lastly flour sifted with salt, roll out 1/2 inch thick on floured board. Cut out with tumbler and fold over in halves, bake in a moderate oven on a greased baking dish for 15 minutes.
Honey Sponge Roll
Ingredients
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup arrowroot
2 heaped teaspoons flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon spice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon honey
Method
Beat eggs and sugar 15 minutes, add arrowroot, flour, cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda, spice, and cinnamon (sifted together twice), add honey, pour into a well greased tin, and bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven.
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