Recipes

Please excuse the spacing in this post - Blogger seems to be having problems with the spacing!!

Okay - first things first - the muesli bar recipe. The original recipe is called Rough Track Oat Bars, and comes from "The Holiday Activity Book" by Jane Bull. I love her books - Blondie owns two of them...



We have also borrowed another one "Make It" from the library, all about making things from recycled stuff from around the house - fantastic.

The original recipe just uses oats and is delicious, but we decided to try it with Daddy's homemade muesli and it's even better.

MUESLI BARS

100 g soft brown sugar

4 tbsp soft brown sugar

150 g butter

400-500g muesli (this depends on how well it is sticking together).

Heat oven to 190 degrees C (our oven 150 - I have burnt so many things!!). Put the sugar, syrup and butter into a suacepan and stir over heat until butter melts. Remove from heat and stir in muesli. Press the mixture out into a baking pan, about 20 x 30 cm. Bake for 20 mins or until butter mixture caramalises but doesn't burn. Cut the bars while still slightly warm. Remove from pan when cool.

This particular muesli of Daddy's had oats, linseed meal, dried fruit (pawpaw, sultanas, dried banana), pepitos, sunflower seeds, peanuts and almonds. It varies ecsh time he makes it depending on what's available, and he makes enough to fill an 8.5 litre container.

Now on a slightly different topic...For Christmas, Miss 11 was given a recipe book that looks like a very much slimmer version of this one...

Hers contains only a few recipes so far - but they are tried, tested and well loved. Mine, however, contains so many reciped that it has got the ridiculous stage. So I have decided to try them one by one in order to give them a prune. This is the first one, and, according to the children - a keeper. I think it originally came from a magazine about herbs.

QUICK HERBAL BEER BREAD

3 cups self-raising flour (I used wholemeal)

2 tbsp sugar

A can or bottle (stubby) of beer

1/4 cup melted butter

1 tbsp of your favourite herbs (I used oregano and mixed herbs)

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

about 1/4 cup estra melted butter for brushing top.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Mix all ingredients, pour into well greased loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes. Melt additional butter and pour over bread, then bake for another 15 minutes.

Great with vegemite!!