New Zealand Rock Cakes
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Title: New Zealand Rock Cakes
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 6 servings
1 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c Butter or margarine
1/2 c Sugar
Seedless raisins
2 tb Orange marmalade *
1 Egg; beaten slightly
Recipe by: TERRY HARRIS (FASA32B)
* (look in the jelly section in a store or international/gourmet food
sections) Preheat overn 425 degrees F. Sift flour & salt into mixing
bowl, blend in butter /or margerine using clean hands until it is like fine
bread crumbs. Add sugar, rasins, & marmalade & mix well with spoon. Add egg
& blend in flour mixture until stiff & rocky.
The mixture must be stiff, or it will lose shape when baking. Pull off
golf ball size chunks of dough & drop on cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.
Do not smooth out dough pieces. Bake in oven for 15 mins. until lightly
browned.
Remove from oven & turn rock cakes bottom side up to cool. Served as a
snack with milk or tea. Rock cakes is one of the oldest know written New
Zealand recipes & dates back to 1861. The dough should be made as rough as
possible. They were popular tea-time treats of the original English
settlers. Serves 6-8. Terry Harris
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