Happy Father's Day to all!
It is a glorious Spring day here, the scent of stocks wafted on the breeze as I was carrying the morning tea tray back inside.
Stocks are one of my favourite flowers. Usually planted as annuals here, but mine have been surviving on the rainfall and little else since I planted them 3 years ago, and rewarding me with a few weeks of wonderfully scented days. I am afraid if I give them a bit more TLC they will curl up and die!
I decided to do a bit of baking today, haven't done any for weeks and bought "Tabnabs" just aren't the same. My partner was 'fiddling in the shed with things mechanical' and when I asked if he would like a tea now or later when I had done some baking, the answer was "Later" (of course)
The challenge was to find something that would be quick and easy, delicious, and done and ready to serve in about half an hour...( no mean feat!). Back to the cookbooks!
Flipping through I found a recipe for Honey Joys, Well remembered from my childhood, though I remember Nanna mostly baking these, I found a recipe in Mum's book as well as Nanna's.
Nanna used to put in fresh macadamia nuts as well. Poppa would have spent the morning with us girls helping to crack the macadamias we had gathered from the trees up the back behind the shed. He had an old bit of 4"x 4" with hollows just big enough to rest a nut or two, give a thwack with a hammer and we would scoop out the nutshell and kernels and so the process would start again, talk about slow food...
The recipe is simple and only takes a few minutes to put together and bake, take about 15 mins to cool enough to eat and only about 5 mins to demolish completely.
And easy enough for kids to help with.
Honey Joys.
Ingredients:
- 5 cups cornflakes
- 3oz butter (100 gm)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 cup chopped macadamias (if desired)
Method:
- Melt sugar, butter and honey together n a saucepan till frothy.
- Pour over cornflakes and mix well. Add nuts at this stage.
- Place patty papers on an oven tray (about 24)
- Fill the patty papers with the cornflake mixture.
- Bake in a Slow oven 275 - 300 for 10 mins.
- Allow to cool before eating.(if you can)
Disaster strikes!
Was just starting to mix up a batch of Grandma's Chocolate Slice when the oven roared and a burst of flame appeared! Switched it off immediately some smoke came out, but not much. Very handy partner soon had the oven out, checked the electricals etc, found a dodgy light bulb and had everything back and working in no time. So the slice is back in production and the oven seems to be working fine...here's hoping it doesn't trip the switch again.