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Recipes

Impossible Pie

This an old
Woman’s Weekly
recipe, and I always wonder if it was discovered by a very bored kitchen maid who wanted to see her boyfriend so, instead of performing all that stuff about ‘creaming the butter and sugar’, she just threw all the ingredients into a pie dish and—miraculously—it worked. Or maybe it was the work of a woman of enquiring mind who had time on her hands to experiment. And lots of hens.

1⁄2 cup plain flour 1 cup caster sugar 3⁄4 cup desiccated coconut 4 eggs vanilla 125 g butter, melted 1⁄2 cup flaked almonds 1 cup milk

Grease a deep pie dish and preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Put all the ingredients except half the almonds and the milk in a bowl and mix well, then add the milk slowly and beat until you get a cake batter. Pour it into the pie dish, top with the with rest of the almonds. Bake for about 35 minutes. It miraculously turns itself into a spongy sort of layered coconut cake, lovely with stewed fruit and cream.

Potato Scones

1 cup self-raising flour pinch salt 1 tbsp butter or lard 1 cup mashed potatoes 1⁄2 cup milk

Rub flour, salt and butter together. Add potato and mix with milk to a soft dough. Cut into rounds and bake in a hot oven for 7 to 10 minutes.

Noyau Cocktail

Mix one jigger of noyau with one jigger of white rum. Fill up with pineapple juice and mint sprigs. Serve over ice.

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There are some lovely film websites. Google ‘Australian film’ and have fun!
Our Painted Daughters,
unfortunately, is lost. Only a few stills remain to remind us of a thoroughly vile and degenerate movie which, regrettably, we didn’t get to see . . . The Miniaturist Meredith Phillips designed Phryne’s new bathroom.