Cakes for linchbox-reasonably healthy

hollydays

One of these days i was going to post asking if anyone had the recipe for the fruit loaf that you make with tea-sounds weird but is so yummy.

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orange teabread

5oz currants, 5oz raisins, i would use 10oz mixed dried fruit
5oz light soft brown sugar
fine gr rind two oranges
1/2pt hot tea
10oz sr flour
1 egg

put fruit, rind, and sugar in a bowl pour in hot tea
stir well, leave overnight, cover with a plate to keep in heat
stir in flour and egg next day and mix very well
line an 8 inch round deep tin, bake 11/2hrs, test with a skewer
150oc gas 2 use plain or spread with butter

three date loaves ( havent tried this one)
8oz chopped dates
3/4 tsp salt
8oz sultanas
12fl oz boiling water
2oz block marg
1lb plain flour
2 tsps bic soda
12oz sugar
1 large egg, beaten

grease and line 3 1lb tins 170oc 1- 11/4 hrs
put dates, sultanas, marg, bicarb ans salt in a bowl, pour over water, leave 10-15 mins, grad stir in rest, mix well and divide between the tins, smooth tops, cool in tin

lightisfading

I can't get the site to load at the moment, but if you go to Nigella Lawson's site and do a search for muffin recipes loads come up (by her and by other people). I use the 'quick muffins' recipe myself all the time, generally adding some honey instead of sugar, dried fruits, seeds etc.

newlywed

newmrslockwood wrote: »

I have been making these banana loaves for my bunch. they've got fruit and no fat. and it tastes really yummy too.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=584302&postcount=164

I make this one with loads of raisins in - it's yum.

pavlovs_dog

loads of fab ideas for when i start back to uni in september :T

thriftmonster

Deleted_User wrote: »

Are flapjacks good? I was looking for a recipe for some and all I found were ones that seemed to involve lots of butter AND marge?

ok - my version - adapted from a 1970s bero one:

melt 4oz butter/ marg and 1tbsp of syrup

Crush 3oz cornflakes. Add 2oz SR flour, 3oz sugar and 2 oz oats. Mix in the marg mix. Spread into a 8" x 8" tin Bake for 15 - 20 mins at 160C. Mark into 12 fingers in the tin as soon as removed from oven. Cool in tin.

So you're only looking at 1/3oz marg/ butter per finger - and they're yummy

hollydays

Just off to make some muffins from the Nigella site.
What is the metric equivalent of 2 cups of grated carrot?

red-chilli

I just made some apple+cinnamon muffins using 'bigmuffins' basic muffin recipe then peeled,cored+diced 3 apples, mixed them in with 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp all spice. No bran in them but they are very nice.....