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THE BUSH CUISINE HEALTHY (?) CHEESE CAKE

Courtesy : John R. King

Ingredients:

Base - 100grams ground Macadamia Nuts
50 grams Butter
2 Tablespoons Macadamia Nut Oil
50 grams Sugar
1 cup plain flour

Base Cheese Mixture

500 grams Ricotta Cheese
375 grams Silken Tofu
4 Large Eggs
150 grams Sugar

Cheese Flavouring

2 Large Kitchacontu Leaves (Strawberry Tea Tree Leaf) ground fine
OR
½ cup Desert Limes, whole fruit puree in blender, or any fruit in syrup
½ cup Desert Lime cordial, delete if using fruit in syrup
100 grams Sugar
1 Tablespoon Potato Flour

Jelly Toping

2 cups Fruit in syrup, for the Kc flavouring I use Limes, for the Lime I use Lilly Pilly
2 heaped teaspoons of Agar Agar powder

Base, mix all ingredients to coarse crumb stage, and press into baking pan with a round of baking paper in bottom of pan. Bake in medium oven till brown.

Cheese Mix, mix all ingredients in large mixing bowl and pour onto cooled baked crust. Bake until lightly browned on top.

Jelly Toping, place fruit and Agar Agar powder in saucepan and bring to the boil. As soon as boiling pour on top of cooled cheese cake in baking pan. Cool in baking pan till next day, run a knife around inside of pan to remove cake.

Fruit in syrup, 1 cup fruit, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup water. Mix all ingredients in pan and boil until fruit is soft. Can be done and placed in preserving jars in advance.

Good Eating
John R. King
Bush Cuisine

Wattle Cake

Courtesy :Vincent King

Ingredients:

4 cups SR flour
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 tab Vanilla
1 packet Bush Cuisine Wattle flowers
1 cup milk, more if mixture is dry

Equipment:

L. bowl
Plate
Knife
Beater
M. jug
M. spoon
M. cups
Wooden spoon

Method:

1. Hygiene.
2. Prepare ingredients, set oven to Moderate (180 C)
3. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla.
4. Fold in flour and milk alternatively.
5. Add flowers and eggs. Mix well.
6. Pour half into each tin. Bake for 20 minutes.
7. Clean up and freeze cake.

SYZYGIUM AUSTRALE

Courtesy: Colleen and Geoff Keena
For this recipe to work well you need a tart tasting fruit, too tart to eat raw

. Put a cup of fruit in a small microwave dish.
Just cover with water.
Cook until fruit becomes translucent.
Add sugar to taste.
Serve with custard, yoghurt or ice-cream.
(I usually remove seeds when cooked fruit has cooled).