Home Economics 

STICKY DATE PUDDING

Senior students learned that dates come from a date palm tree. They are delicious fresh or as dried fruit in different recipes. Students tried them in this pudding.     

Ingredients                                                                                                                                

250g dates                                                                                              

1 cup of water                                         

100g butter

2 teaspoons mixed spice

1 teaspoon bi-carb soda

¾ cup sugar 

2 eggs

1 ½ cups self-raising flour

SAUCE

1 cup brown sugar

50g butter

1 cup cream                                                                                                                                                                           

What to do: 

Instructions

To make pudding 

1. In a saucepan combine dates, water, butter, mixed spice, bi-carb soda, and sugar. Boil the ingredients together for a few minutes, let the mixture cool down.
2. Add eggs and self-raising flour to the mixture. Mix everything together, and then put in greased muffin tins. Cook in medium oven for about 20 minutes.
3. To make sauce

Mix brown sugar, butter and cream in a saucepan and boil for 5 minutes. Serve topped with vanilla ice cream and enjoy.

PATHWAYS PDS FOOD TECHNOLOGY GROUP 

Pathways Food Technology group were busy this week preparing for the Bluey Free Dress Day in week 9. They were busy rolling out biscuit dough and stamping out paw and bone shaped biscuits. Next week they will be decorating biscuits. Students worked very hard to produce a lot of biscuits for our fundraiser. 

MOIST AND EASY SMALL CHOCOLATE CAKES    

Lower Juniors learned how to make a chocolate cake recipe without using eggs. This is a handy recipe if you find you have run out of eggs and don’t have any butter. This recipe is successful if you gently fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and do not beat. 

Ingredients: 

1 ½ cups plain flour                                         

1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda 

½ teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons cocoa

1 cup sugar

3 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon vinegar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Instructions: 

1. Preheat oven to 180 C., prepare patty pans in two trays.
2. Sift and combine in a bowl plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, cocoa, and sugar.
3. Fill a jug with wet ingredients: oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Then add two cups of water. Add to dry ingredients.
4. Stir with a wooden spoon until mixture is combined. Pour mixture into patty pans and bake in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes. Check with a skewer and give more time if needed. Cool and add chocolate icing.