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Anna's Recipe File
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Everybody has a melktert recipe. Mine is the best. I got it from Peta. Her mother got it from the minister’s wife who used to make it for church fêtes. This recipe makes two.
Pastry : Melt butter. Beat together with sugar and egg. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together and mix with egg mixture. Press into two pie plates, prick bottoms here and there with fork and set aside.Filling: Beat egg and sugar together till pale yellow and fluffy. Add cornflour, salt and vanilla, and beat well till smooth with no lumps. Bring milk, butter and cinnamon stick to the boil (Fish cinnamon stick out before adding egg mixture.) Remove from heat. Add a little of the hot mixture to the egg mixture to warm it, and then stir the egg mixture into the milk. Return to a low heat and stir until it starts to thicken. Switch heat off. Put lid on and leave for 4 minutes. Pour into pie plates, sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake at 350F/180C for about 20 minutes until pastry is cooked.
jungle gym jam tart
Anybody who has a child at primary school gets roped into working bees. I was one of a group of mothers painting the playground equipment when Pat produced this jam tart for our morning tea
Beat egg, mix with dry ingredients. Makes crumbly mixture. Melt butter, pour over the flour mixture. Press most of the mixture into pie dish, spread with jam. Crumble remaining kixture on top. Bake 1/2 hour at 150C
baked new york cheese cake
In 1977 we bought a house in Parkview from a woman called Renèè. Her job was to subtitle French and German movies into English for TV. One day I took her mail to her new house and she gave me tea and this cheesecake. She got the recipe from an American TV cameraman, a native New Yorker.
pre-heat oven to 180C PASTRY: Mix by hand into soft dough, press thinly into pie dish. Prick bottom. Bake at 180C FILLING: Mix to smooth consistency. Pour onto pastry. Put into preheated oven, switch oven off. Leave about 20-30 mins, until firm.
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