Old Newspaper Recipes - Sweet

In amongst the old recipe collection were a variety of recipes from old newspapers. All the sweet recipes are collected below.

Old Promotional Recipes

Collected here are recipes that came from the same old recipes collection, but are specifically brand-based or promotional recipes that had been collected.

Old Typed Recipes

This collection of recipes appear all to have been typed on a typewriter. Although, not the same typewriter as there is some variation in the type font and the paper.

Old Hand Written in a Book Recipes

In amongst the collection of old recipes were a selection in the same handwriting and had clearly been written in a book at some point. There’s a common red margin down the pages, and it all appears to have been written with the same fountain pen. Some of the recipes are torn / missing instructions, they’re all presented as we found them.

Old Recipes - Other Sweets

Other sweet and desserts that couldn’t be easily categorised or grouped together.

Old Recipes - Sweet Creams and Sauces

A collection of the sweet sauces and creams recipes in the collection of old recipes we have. In creating blog posts of collections of recipes we ended up with a few random ones that couldn’t quite be as easily collected together as previous ones, but wanted to maintain an alternating sweet/savoury posting schedule, so these two are collected together. .

Old Recipes - Sweet Loafs

A collection of the sweet loafs recipes in the collection of old recipes we have (we realised it would take too long to write out and post these individually so have brought the remainders together as one blog post).

Old Recipes - Biscuits & Cookies

A collection of the biscuit and cookie recipes in the collection of old recipes we have (we realised it would take too long to write out and post these individually so have brought the remainders together as one blog post).

Old Recipes - Slices

A selection of sweet slices.

Old Recipes - Cakes

Assortment of variety of different cakes, presented in a gallery below.

Old Recipes - Sponges

There are three similar, though different sponge recipes in this collection of recipes, both are presented in a gallery below.

Also below the standard sponge recipes are recipes for Ginger Sponge and Chocolate Sponge.

Old Recipes - Pavlova

There are two pavlova recipes in this collection, one "for toffee" and another. 

Both are presented in galleries below.

Old Recipes - Apricot Choc Chip Cake

125g margarine, melted

Add 2 beaten eggs

200g apricot nectar

1 1/2 cups sifted self raising flour

1 1/2 cups coconut

Packet 200g chopped apricot

150g choc chips

Add above mixture, ring tin

180º 45 minutes

Later sprinkle icing sugar

Old Recipes - Caramel Bake (Joan)

1/4lb margarine

3/4 cup sugar 

Cream & add

1 egg

1 cup self raising flour

Sifted with 

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup chopped dates

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Bake in moderate about 20 minutes approx

Old Recipes - Sago Plum Pudding

There are two versions of this recipe in the collection of photos, they appear to be the same (see below for both originals)

2 tablespoons sago soaked overnight in enough milk to cover

1 cup breadcrumbs

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 tablespoons butter

1 cup mixed fruits

1 teaspoon carb soda

1 teaspoon mixed spices

Method:

Mix together, add a little milk.

Pour into greased basin and steam for 3 hours

Old Recipes - Hot Chocolate Sauce

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup bournville cocoa

2 teaspoons vanilla

Method:

Mix sugar and cocoa together, add a little boiling water until smooth, continue to add water. Boil gently for 3 minutes stirring all the time. Remove from heat and add vanilla.

Old Recipes - Lemon Sauce Dumplings

Dumplings

1 tablespoon butter

1 beaten egg

1 cup self raising flour

Little milk

Syrups

1 1/2 cups water

1 dessert spoon butter

Juice of one lemon

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon golden syrup

Method:

Rub butter into flour and mix to a light dough with beaten egg & milk ??? etc into 10 or 13 dumplings  & drop into ??? syrup. Boil for 20 minutes & serve.

Old Recipes - Jelly Slice

1 packet ?? citrus crush

6 oz butter melted

460 gram condensed milk

Juice of 2 lemons

2 teaspoon gelatine dissolved in 3/4 cup boiling water

Method:

Pop 1 packet ?? jelly crystals

Mix ?? and melted butter press into tin 10x6".

Condensed milk with lemon juice, dissolved gelatine ?? over base. 

??

Chill mixture and cut into quarters.

Old Recipes - Chinese Chews

Cream: 1/4 Marg & Small Cup Sugar

Add: 1 egg, mix well

Add: 1 cup DL flour, pinch salt, 4 teaspoons cocoa. 

Mix well

Add: 1/4 cup chopped dates, 1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Spread into greased slice tray, cook in cool oven, 25 minutes. The edges should be cooked by the centre not too much.

Cut into slices when cool.