One egg banana cake with orange icing

Orange Icing

This icing can be used with all sorts of cakes.

Above you can see it on the One Egg Banana Cake.

This recipe has been published a great deal in vintage Australian newspapers. I found it in the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer, Friday the 17th November 1916

Ingredients

1/2 lb or 240gm of icing sugar or powdered sugar.

A couple of tablespoons of pulp-free orange juice.

Method

Sift the sugar.

Warm the orange juice in a saucepan and add the icing sugar.

Heat gently until melted and pour over your cooled cake.

Gin fizz

Gin Fizz

The gin fizz is a lovely refreshing old time cocktail. Bring back the fizz!

Ingredients

45ml or 1 1/2oz gin

1 1/2 teaspoons of rich sugar syrup (you can find the recipe here but make sure you watch this video first as the ratio of sugar to water is not the same!)

3 teaspoons of lemon juice

soda water

ice cubes

lemon slice for garnish

a cocktail shaker

Method

Half fill your cocktail shaker with ice cubes.

Add the gin, sugar syrup and lemon juice.

Shake shake shake.

Pour into a glass of ice.

Add the soda water and garnish with the lemon juice.

Sip through a straw.