Zucchini slice

These recipes are in my mother's handwriting and are housed in a battered, blue plastic folder. They are transcribed here as part of the A-Z Challenge 2019. Each day in April a new letter of the alphabet and accompanying recipes are posted.

So I have come to the end of the alphabet and it has been an interesting look back at recipes from earlier years, treasured not necessarily for their content but for the fact that they are in my mother's handwriting. There are many more recipes than those I have managed to transcribe here. Now the next job is to compile them all into a readable file that I can pass on to her grandchildren.

I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse of cooking from the past.

Zucchini

Zucchinis were a late introduction to my mother's cuisine and I speculate that this recipe came from one of her daughters. It has a cross next to it, perhaps this means she adapted it or found another recipe or made it only once and was not happy with the result. Perhaps one of my siblings will enlighten me as I have never tried this recipe.

Zucchini slice

400 to 450 gr. Zuccini (grated)
5 Eggs (Beaten)
½ pkt Bacon Bits
1 lge onion (lightly fried)
1 cup grated cheese
½ cup Oil

Add oil to beaten eggs
Combine and add other ingredients.

Bake 30 to 40 minutes in mod[erate] oven in slice tray.

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Previous posts in this A-Z series

Hannah's Recipes A-Z challenge

A - Apricots, Apples and Afghan biscuits
B - Banana cake and Boiled fruit cake
C - Carrot cake and Chocolate peppermint slice
D - Date Loaf and Dried Apricot Jam
E - Easy Apricot Slice
F - Flans and Fruit Balls
G - Ginger Biscuits and Ginger Flan
H - Honey Sponge Roll with mock cream
I - Icing
J - Jubilee Cake and Baked Jam Roly Poly
K - Ki Si Ming or Hi Li Min
L - Lemon Tart, Lemon Cordial and Lemon spread
M - Macaroons and Munchy Peanut biscuits
N - Nutties
O - Orange Cake
P - Pasty Slice, Potato Pancakes and Peppermint Malties
Q - Quick and easy Quiche
R - Rabbit
S - Sponges and Small cakes
T - Toffee almonds and Tuna mornay
U - Utensils
V - Vanilla Slice
W - Walnut and Orange slice
X - Xmas Biscuit Mix
Y - Yo-Yos

This post first appeared on earlieryears.blogspot.com by CRGalvin

Yo-yos a shortbread variety

Shortbread Yo-yos 

These recipes are in my mother's handwriting and are housed in a battered, blue plastic folder. They are transcribed here as part of the A-Z Challenge 2019. Each day in April a new letter of the alphabet and accompanying recipes are posted.

Cream 6 ozs butter with 2 ozs icing sugar.

Add 8 ozs S R Flour with 2 ozs custard powder.

If too stiff add a llittle milk

Roll into small balls & flatten with fork.

Mod[erate] oven

When cold join tog. with 1 tablespoon butter beaten with 2 ozs icing sugar, van[illa] ess[ence]

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This post first appeared on earlieryears.blogspot.com by CRGalvin

Xmas Biscuit Mix

These recipes are in my mother's handwriting and are housed in a battered, blue plastic folder. They are transcribed here as part of the A-Z Challenge 2019. Each day in April a new letter of the alphabet and accompanying recipes are posted.

Christmas biscuits

It is unusual to see Christmas written as Xmas in my mother's handwriting as her emphasis on the celebration was the Christ in Christmas. Luckily for my A-Z challenge she listed this as Xmas biscuit mix.

Xmas Biscuit Mix

18 malt biscuits (crushed)

15 marshmallows (chopped)

4 ozs glace cherries (chopped)

2 ozs whole ginger (chopped)

2 ozs walnuts (chopped)

2 ozs raisins

¼ teaspoon vanilla essence

½ tin cond[ensed] milk

Mix all tog[ether]

Form into rolls and roll in coconut

Slice as needed

Keeps indefinitely in fridge.