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    Nana Ling's Handwritten Recipes

    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.

    • Apricot Jam
    • Caramel Date Slice
    • Passionfruit Sponge Cake
    • Chocolate Ripple Cake
    • Passionfruit Curd
    • Carrot Christmas Pudding
    • Passionfruit Melting Moments
    • Tomato Jam
    • Pavlova Recipe
    • Snowballs
    • Sultana Cake
    • Mango Pudding
    • Floral Fruit Cake
    • Iced Currant Fingers
    • Burnt Butter Biscuits
    • Old Fashioned Jam Drops
    • Scotch Pancakes
    • Pikelets Recipe
    • Banana Cake with Lemon Icing
    • Flummery Recipe
    • Soldiers Cake
    • Spicy Fruit Roll Biscuits
    • Mock Chicken
    • Coconut Biscuits
    • Butterfly Cakes
    • Mandarin Jam
    • Fruit and Nut Clusters
    • Victoria Sponge
    • Golden Syrup Dumplings
    • Passionfruit Cordial
    • Butterscotch Pinwheel Scones
    • Jubilee Cake
    • Neapolitan Cake
    • Choc Orange Jelly Crystal Cookies
    • Lamington Recipe
    • Tomato Sauce Recipe
    • Pineapple Tart
    • Apple Amber
    • Lemon Jam
    • Date and Walnut Slice
    • Lemon Cake
    • Monte Carlo Biscuits

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    Hi, I'm Libby, a recipe collector and writer. I love everything about home cooking and share modern classics and recipes that have been passed down for generations – I hope you find a few that bring back treasured memories.

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