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Lemon Jam
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Golden Syrup Dumplings
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Raspberry Coconut Slice (Classic Australian Recipe)
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Date and Walnut Slice
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Lemon Meringue Slice (With Biscuit Base & Tangy Lemon Filling)
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Nan's Sponge Cake
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Pineapple Tart
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Lemon Cake
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Butternut Cookies
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Iced Currant Fingers
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Honey Biscuits
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Lamingtons
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Scottish Shortbread Petticoat Tails
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Best Aussie Pavlova Recipe
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Scotch Pancakes
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Homemade Junket Ice Cream
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Snowballs
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Easy Lemon Curd
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Passionfruit Sponge Cake
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Passionfruit Curd
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Passionfruit Melting Moments
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Coconut Cake
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Cherry Cake
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Butterfly Cakes
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Pikelets
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Apricot Jam
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Caramel Date Slice
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Chocolate Ripple Cake
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Carrot Christmas Pudding
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Tomato Jam
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Sultana Cake
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Mango Pudding
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Floral Fruit Cake
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Burnt Butter Biscuits
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Old Fashioned Jam Drops
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Banana Cake with Lemon Icing
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Flummery Recipe
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Soldiers Cake
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Spicy Fruit Roll Biscuits
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Mock Chicken
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Coconut Biscuits
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Mandarin Jam
This is a collection of recipes recorded by my great grandmother Lydia Louisa Ling ("Nana Ling") in the 1930s and 40s. Nana Ling's Handwritten Recipes are a family treasure but are also valuable from a historical perspective. They capture the way people in regional Australia cooked during this time and coped with wartime rationing and scarcity. Among her recipes, are one of the earliest records of Pavlova (she includes a note that it should be "hard on outside and like marshmallow inside), a fruit cake designed to be sent to soldiers during WWII, Mock Chicken and a beautiful old-fashioned Sultana Cake.
These recipes are so special to me and I hope you'll love them too. The original handwritten recipe appears in each post along with my "tested and tweaked" version in the recipe card.
