Mum Dijk's Ontbijt Koek /  Mum's Dutch Honey Breakfast Loaf

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 Cups self raising flour
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons golden syrup or Appel Stroop (Apple Syrup)
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon each of nutmeg, ground cloves and ginger powder
• 2 teaspoons Dutch cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon mixed peel (or tablespoon of good marmalade) and milk (OR 1 dessertspoon orange peel and 1 cup orange juice)

Method

• Mix all ingredients  together and pour into a large loaf pan, greased and lined with baking paper. 
• Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 35-50 minutes in a regular oven. 
• Less time for fan forced. 
• Check for browning and insert fork or similar and when it comes out clean it's ready.

Enjoy with a good smear of real butter or plain with your morning coffee or anytime of the day really.

Pictures are of a half eaten Koek but shows the texture and colour! 

It was very yummy and went fast.  

For a larger recipe use two smaller loaf pan and increase to these measurements:

• 3 eggs
• 3 cups SR Flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4.5 tablespoons honey
• 1.5 tsps spices
• 3 tsp cinnamon
• 1.5 cups liquids

Easy to make.

Enjoy!

Cooking or the lack of same...

You can find my latest recipe contribution by clicking on the Recipe tab above...

As you can see my cooking has become more infrequent than ever. This is not a good thing. Life should be full of good food and yet as I've ( or we - hubby and I) have grown older, we seem to worry less and less about putting in the effort to cook meals regularly. Hubby seems to enjoy the cheese and pineapple wraps he 'cooks' in the sandwich press just about every lunch time. I have late breakfasts because I go to the pool after my school bus run, or 'work out' (a VERY grandiose name for going to the local park and using the new exercise equipment) 2 or 3 days per week on the way home. So I have Organic oats at about 10.30 and don't feel hungry till about 3 pm, which naturally throws the whole hunger/feeding thingy out of whack and then I tend to have a hot drink with several crackers and cheese or sweet biscuits, which in turn throws out my dinner time hunger.

So soups are always a really good option for a quick evening meal. They are satisfying palate wise, fill your tummy up without feeling bloated which is not a good thing before retiring to bed and they are also

Yummy spinach and potato soup.

so simple to make. So when I was browsing through the new batch of gossip mags the neighbour deposits at my front door at least once a week, saw this great spinach soup recipe and knew I had all the simple ingredients available, I jumped to and voila! a beautifully flavoured soup ready in under an hour. Yum Yum!

I was happy that I'd actually got to and created something new to eat and hubby was delighted his wife had actually cooked him a meal for a change. 

I'll certainly be making this one again very soon.

It'a a real winter warmer.

Enjoy.

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Yummy Anzac biscuits

Well, here comes my first recipe.
A few nights ago I was wanting something sweet, but not too sweet.  Something yummy, but healthy. So here is the dead easy recipe for the good old Aussie biscuit (cookie) the ANZAC . This recipe was given to me by a friend many years ago.

Recipe # 1.

YUMMY ANZAC BISCUITS

You will need:
1/2 - 3/4 cup plain flour
1 cup soft brown sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup dessicated coconut
Mix together in bow
Then melt together in microwave or on cooktop:
125gr butter (4ozs)
1 tbsp golden syrup
2 tbps boiling water
To this add:
    1/2 tsp baking soda (bicarb)
Pour wet mix into dry and mix together with wooden spoon.
Place teaspoons of mix on greased and paper lined baking sheets - about 10cm apart to allow them to spread.
Bake in 180C oven for about 10 minutes.
Keep an eye on them as they brown quickly.
Cool on rack till they go hard and crunchy.
Enjoy!

Notes:

1.  You can use raw or white sugar but it makes the biscuits too sweet. Brown sugar gives them a more caramelly taste.
2. Add the 1/2 cup of flour first and if still quite wet, add the other 1/4 cup.