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TROPICAL DESSERTS

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Fruit Dessert

2 ½ cups of coconut cream

½ cup of orange juice

3 or 4 tabs lemon juice

3 tabs corn flour

5 tabs sugar

pinch salt

Mix sugar and salt with fruit and stir

Add coconut cream and corn flour.

Cook over medium heat – stirring constantly until thick.

Boil then simmer for a few minutes

Pour pudding over fresh or canned fruit

Eg 1 cup pawpaw, 1 ½ cups sliced banana , 1 cup pineapple

Pawpaw Souffle

2 cups mashed pawpaw

¾ cup of water

2 eggs

2 tabs cornflour or arrowroot

½ cup lemon juice

½ cup sugar

Heat mashed pawpaw, sugar and water together until mixture boils.

Mix cornflour with lemon juice and add to pawpaw.

Stir until thick. Add egg yolks.

When nearly cold beat egg whites until stiff with 1 extra tab sugar

Stir carefully into the mixture.

Chill

Lazy Girls Plate

1 packet of ginger nuts

Whipped Cream

1 small tin of pineapple cubes

Place ginger nuts in patty tins, put in oven at 300 deg for 10 minutes or until soft.

Remove from oven and press into a shape of patty tin.

Leave to cool. Fill with whipped cream, add cube of pineapple.

Coconut Sponge Cake

6 tabs. Flour

6 tabs sugar

1 ¼ tsp baking powder

4 eggs (small)

1 coconut

1 ½ tsp vanilla

2 tabs hot water

2 tsp butter

2 egg whites

1 tab sugar

Sift flour and baking powder three times.

Beat eggs for 20 minutes.

Add sugar very slowly in tablespoons from the cup into the mixture until the sugar is used up.

Then dissolve butter in hot water.

Add flour and baking powder into the mixture and pour in butter and hot water.

Bake in sandwich tins for 30 mins. Grate coconut and roast it in oven until brown

Beat egg whites until thick, add tab sugar

Spread the mixture over the cake with roasted coconut

Banana Cake

1 ½ cups flour

1 tsp Bi-Carb soda

1 cup sugar

2 ozs. Butter

1 egg

2 or 3 mashed bananas

2 tabs. Milk

Sift the flour and Soda.

Beat the sugar, butter egg and bananas.

Add the flour mixture and milk

Bake 35 mins in mod oven

Ice with orange icing or add cream filling

Or just sandwich with a generous layer of butter.

Coconut Loaf

1 cup S.R Flour

¾ cup sugar

1 cup coconut

¾ cup milk

Mix all together, put in loaf tin

Bake ¾ hour in a moderate oven

Coconut Milk Scones

2 cups flour

3 tsp B. powder

salt to taste

coconut cream

Sift baking powder and salt.

Mix to a dough with coconut milk in place of cow’s milk.

Bake in a hot oven 12 minutes.