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Other fillings involved dates, honey, oranges and lemons. You can make up these fillings then quite happily take a bought sponge and make it look positively handmade. Or you could use them to rescue a cake which might have come out of the oven looking a bit dry and worse for wear.
Mock cream
2 tbsp butter (soft)
4 tbsp caster sugar
2 tbsp milk
2 tbsp hot (not boiling) water
Cream butter and sugar
Mix in the milk drop by drop while beating and continue to beat until well mixed. Slowly add hot water and beat.
Date filling
1 cup stoneless dates, chopped
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp sugar
Rind and juice of a lemon
- Put all ingredients in a saucepan and boil until thick, like jam.
Marshmallow filling
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup caster sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tarter
1 tsp gelatine
1/4 cup water
1 egg white
Boil 3/4 cup water with sugar and cream of tartar for about seven minutes or until it threads (forms a thread if pulled out by a spoon).
Soak the gelatine in ¼ cup water. Add to the sugar and water.
Beat the egg white until stiff and add to the cooled mixture. Beat the mixture until stiff.
Honey cream
Use in place of whipped cream
1 cup pineapple juice
2 tsp cornflour
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp firm honey
Bring pineapple juice to the boil.
Meanwhile mix the cornflour with a little cold juice to make a paste then stir into the juice until smooth. Boil until thick.
Beat butter and honey together until light and creamy. Beat in the cooled pineapple mixture,1 tbsp at a time.
Orange filling
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp flour
Pinch salt
1 egg (beaten)
1/3 cup orange juice
Grated rind of one orange
1/2 cup water
2 tsp butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
Mix the sugar, flour and salt.
Add beaten egg, orange juice, rind and water.
Cook in a double boiler (or with a bowl on top of simmering water) until creamy. Let it cool, then whip in butter and lem
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