This community cookbook was published by the Auckland Diocesan Catholic Women's League also known as Te Roopu Wahine a te Haahi Katorika in 1987.
There are no photographs but lots of homely recipes and quotations which exhorted the women of the diocese to lead a good Christian Life.. Here are a couple:
"It is good to have money, and the things money can't buy. But it is as well to check up occasionally to make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
by Lord Cobham
And
Thank God for dirty dishes
They have a tale to tell
While others may go hungry
We've eaten very wel
With home and health and happiness
We shouldn't want to fuss
For by the stack of evidence
God's been very good to us!
anonymous
Here's some of the recipes I have tried.
The 'piklets' turned out to be pikelets. There were 3 recipes for these. The first two included cream of tartar ( the Edmond's cookbook does not use this ingredient, but l have noticed it in other community cookbooks of that era .
Pikelets are really just unsweetened or slighlty sweetened mini pancakes,traditionally served with jam and cream.
Piklets:
1 cup of flour
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking soda
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 egg
3/4 cup of milk
pinch of salt
1 tsp of melted butter
Method:
Sift all the ingredients together, beat egg and milk together. Stir gently into the dry ingredients, add melted butter, stir lightly then do not stir again. Cook on greased skillet.
The second recipe was for Never Fail Piklets. The ingredientswere the same except that a teaspoon of golden syrup was added and the method which follows was different:
Method:
Beat the egg and sugar until thick, add milk and mix well. Sift flour and other dry ingrdients, and add alternately with milk. Melt butter and syrup and fold in.
The third recipe was similar to that in the Edmon'd cookery book but with less sugar
Piklets
1 cup of flour
1 desseretspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3/4 cup of milk
1 tablespoon of butter
1 egg
Sift together flour, bakign poswder, salt, add sugar, mix in beaten egg, add ilk, Fold in melted butter. Mix lightly.
An easy recipe for a Tomato Chutney
2 lb of tomatoes , cut
2 tsp salt
1 tsp of basil, oreganum or mixed herbs
2 tb of ghee or oil
2 tbs of honey
Pinch of cinnamon ( optional)
Heat oil, add tomatoes, herbs and spices.
Simmer for 10-15 minutes, until thick
Stir in honey
Good with fired milk curd, stuffed vegetables, rissoles and vegetable pies)
This recipe for coconut loaf is one I used to make , but I lost the recipe so good to find it again.
Coconut Loaf
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of coconut
1 1/2 cups of milk
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 cup of sugar
vanilla essence
Place flour, coconut, baking powder, milk sugar and vanilla in a bowl and mix well. Turn into a greased 19 cm loaf tin .Bake at 180 degrees C for 1 hour. Use plain, buttered or iced.
And not to be missed:
Irish Coffee
1 cup of cream
sugar
whiskey
fresh strong black coffee
In a chilled bowl, whip the cream. Spoon 2 tablespoons of whiskey, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar into each glass, stir ingredients together, fill not quite to the top with coffee and stir, carefully float the cream over the top
There are no photographs but lots of homely recipes and quotations which exhorted the women of the diocese to lead a good Christian Life.. Here are a couple:
"It is good to have money, and the things money can't buy. But it is as well to check up occasionally to make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
by Lord Cobham
And
Thank God for dirty dishes
They have a tale to tell
While others may go hungry
We've eaten very wel
With home and health and happiness
We shouldn't want to fuss
For by the stack of evidence
God's been very good to us!
anonymous
Here's some of the recipes I have tried.
The 'piklets' turned out to be pikelets. There were 3 recipes for these. The first two included cream of tartar ( the Edmond's cookbook does not use this ingredient, but l have noticed it in other community cookbooks of that era .
Pikelets are really just unsweetened or slighlty sweetened mini pancakes,traditionally served with jam and cream.
Piklets:
1 cup of flour
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking soda
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 egg
3/4 cup of milk
pinch of salt
1 tsp of melted butter
Method:
Sift all the ingredients together, beat egg and milk together. Stir gently into the dry ingredients, add melted butter, stir lightly then do not stir again. Cook on greased skillet.
The second recipe was for Never Fail Piklets. The ingredientswere the same except that a teaspoon of golden syrup was added and the method which follows was different:
Method:
Beat the egg and sugar until thick, add milk and mix well. Sift flour and other dry ingrdients, and add alternately with milk. Melt butter and syrup and fold in.
The third recipe was similar to that in the Edmon'd cookery book but with less sugar
Piklets
1 cup of flour
1 desseretspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3/4 cup of milk
1 tablespoon of butter
1 egg
Sift together flour, bakign poswder, salt, add sugar, mix in beaten egg, add ilk, Fold in melted butter. Mix lightly.
An easy recipe for a Tomato Chutney
2 lb of tomatoes , cut
2 tsp salt
1 tsp of basil, oreganum or mixed herbs
2 tb of ghee or oil
2 tbs of honey
Pinch of cinnamon ( optional)
Heat oil, add tomatoes, herbs and spices.
Simmer for 10-15 minutes, until thick
Stir in honey
Good with fired milk curd, stuffed vegetables, rissoles and vegetable pies)
This recipe for coconut loaf is one I used to make , but I lost the recipe so good to find it again.
Coconut Loaf
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of coconut
1 1/2 cups of milk
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 cup of sugar
vanilla essence
Place flour, coconut, baking powder, milk sugar and vanilla in a bowl and mix well. Turn into a greased 19 cm loaf tin .Bake at 180 degrees C for 1 hour. Use plain, buttered or iced.
And not to be missed:
Irish Coffee
1 cup of cream
sugar
whiskey
fresh strong black coffee
In a chilled bowl, whip the cream. Spoon 2 tablespoons of whiskey, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar into each glass, stir ingredients together, fill not quite to the top with coffee and stir, carefully float the cream over the top
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