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Steamed Orange Pudding

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Ingredients

8 oz. self raising flour,
4 oz.sugar,
4 oz. butter,
3/4 cup of milk,
1/2 teaspoon salt,
2 eggs,
grated rind of one orange.

Method

Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs separately, and beat well in. When light add the grated orange peel and the milk. Then add the flour, sifted with the salt. Put into a buttered basin filling it about three-quarters full. Steam for an hour and a quarter. Serve with an orange sauce.

ORANGE SYRUP SAUCE

Boil together a cup of sugar, a cup of orange juice, quarter of a cup of lemon juice, the grated rind of half a lemon and a teaspoon of grated orange rind, for quarter of an hour. Strain and serve hot with the pudding.

from Table Talk, Thursday 21st June 1934

One egg banana cake with orange icing

Orange Icing

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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.