Easy steamed pudding with pineapple

Thanks to Vicky from http://unusualcoleslaw.blogspot.com for this very light, delicious pudding recipe, Anne

Steamed Pudding (No butter, eggs, sugar or flour)

  

1 cup mixed fruit (I used crystallised pineapple, crystallised ginger, sultanas, goji berries)

1 cup breadcrumbs

1/2 teaspoon carb.soda, mixed in 1/2 cup milk

1 mashed banana

Method: Put all in basin, steam 3 hours. Delicious.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.62.

Simply pineapple biscuits

Simple and delicious biscuits topped with crystallised pineapple

4 tblsp butter or margarine; 2 tblsp castor sugar; 2 tblsp condensed milk; 1 large cup self raising flour; crystallised pineapple pieces

Method: Cream butter and sugar, add condensed milk, mix well. Add sifted flour. 

Put teaspoons on greased tray. Stick a piece of crystallised pineapple in the top of each biscuit.

Bake in a moderate oven 15-20 mins.

This was refreshing recent find, Anne