Victory Tea - Party Chocolate Biscuits

Chocolate Biscuits

Next up for our Victory Tea - Party table is our very easy to make and very yummy Chocolate Biscuits.

Another one to get the kids to make.

You can double up the recipe as they don't last long in the biscuit tin as the kids always raid it.

Keep them in an air-tight container so that they don't go soft.

They are perfect to dunk into a cup of tea.

Chocolate Biscuits

1/4 cup margarine

1 Tablespoon golden syrup

1/8 cup cocoa powder

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup plain flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda.

Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C.

Melt the margarine and golden syrup together.

Stir in the cocoa powder until smooth, then add in the sugar.

Add in the flour and baking soda and mix into a dough.  Use your hands as it is easier.

Roll into small balls and press down onto a lightly greased oven tray.

Prick with a fork and bake for 10 minutes.

Leave to cool down for a few minutes then cool on a wire rack until cold.

Serve with a cup of hot tea, dunk biscuit in then eat.

Yum, yum, yum!!!!!!!!!!

Victory Tea - Party Nellie B's Oaty Loaf

Nellie B's Oaty Loaf

Our next recipe is a creation of mine which I have been cooking for years.  It is very quick and simple to make with a minimum of effort.
It is egg-less and is made with no butter or margarine except what is used to grease the loaf tin.

A firm family favorite which my boys LOVE!!!!!  So much so that I usually double the recipe and cook two loaves at a time.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Nellie B's Oaty Loaf

In a large bowl mix :
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup raisins, currants or sultanas (or a mixture of them)
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup milk
1 Tablespoon cinnamon.

Leave covered in a cool place for two hours or longer.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Add 1 cup of self-rising flour to the mixture and stir to combine.
Pour into a greased loaf tin.

Cook for 30 minutes.  A skewer should come out pretty much clean after being put into the middle of the loaf.
Let it cool in the loaf tin for a few minutes before turning out on a wire cooling rack.

Serve spread with a bit of butter or margarine.  Great when still warm or when cold.

Enjoy!

Victory Tea - Party ANZAC Biscuits

ANZAC Biscuits

Next up in my recipes for goodies for the Victory Tea - Party is ANZAC Biscuits.
These sweet biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) which was established in WWII.
ANZAC biscuits were sent by mothers and wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.
They are very yummy, easy to make and are also a popular commercially made biscuit.  My boys say that my ones are heaps better than the bought ones.


ANZAC Biscuits

1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup desicated coconut
small pinch of salt
115g butter or margarine (I use margarine)
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon boiling water.

Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees C (320 degrees F).
Mix all dry ingredients (but not the baking soda) in a bowl.
Melt butter and golden syrup, then add the baking soda dissolved in the boiling water.
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry.
Spoon onto greased oven tray and bake for 15 minutes.
Cool a little on the tray then put on cooling rack.

Store in an air-tight container.

Enjoy!!!!!!!

Victory Afternoon Tea

Salem admiring our spread

Salem and I thought it would be a great idea to try some of our recipes that we have planed for the Victory Tea-Party.  And we had planned on going for a picnic at the Wellington Botanic Gardens on Saturday so needed some goodies to take with us.

Even the Grumpy teenager joins in

So we made ANZAC Biscuits, Chocolate Biscuits, Nellie B's Oaty Loaf and then a Vegetable Slice to have for dinner as well as for the picnic.  All were made within our rations.
So after we had cooked everything we decided to have afternoon tea outside as it was a beautiful day and was a great way to photograph our culinary creations.

YUMM!!!!!!

The Grumpy Teenager came home from school just in time for our afternoon tea.  He was pleasantly surprised.  Everything was really yummy!!!!!
I will post my recipes on this blog over the next few days so you can give them a try.
They have the approval of two hungry lads so they must be good  ;^)

Victory Tea - Party War Cake

One of the goodies we will be making for the 1940s Experiment Victory Tea - Party is War Cake.

This recipe was published in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly in 1941.

It is very moist and will keep well, great to send to soldiers.

War Cake

Boil together for 3 minutes the following ingredients:

1 breakfast cup brown sugar

1 breakfast cup currants or nuts

1 breakfast cup cold water

2 breakfast cups sultanas

1 teaspoon mixed spice

pinch of salt

3oz butter.

When the mixture is cold, mix in 

1 teaspoon of baking soda mixed in a little warm milk

1 teaspoon baking powder (or 2 teaspoons of cream tartar)

2 breakfast cups plain flour.

Cook in a moderate oven for two hours.

The fruit cakes would be made by women to send off to their loved ones giving them a taste of home.  They would be put into a tin then soldered shut and sewn in calico to be sent off to the soldiers with other items.  Another popular item, believe it or not, was Andrew's Liver Salts which were used by the soldiers to make scones in place of baking powder.

Victory Tea - Party

What a great idea from Carolyn from the 1940's Experiment blog.
She is coming to the end of her one year challenge of living on wartime rations and recreating many of the recipes from back then with a vegan twist.

Check out her blog at http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com .

Salem and I will be making come victory table treats to join in with the celebration.
We will keep you posted.