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Authors: Trisha Ashley

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Chewy Fig Fingers

Ingredients

4oz/100g dried figs (the soft, ready-to-eat ones are easiest)

4oz/100g sunflower seeds

rice paper or sesame seeds

Method

Chop the figs into little pieces, discarding the stalks and any hard bits. Put into a food processor and blend to a thick paste, or you can mash them up by hand.

Mix in the sunflower seeds. Make a ‘sandwich’ of the paste by rolling it flat between two layers of rice paper, then cut into bars. As an alternative, form the fig paste into little logs or balls and roll them into sesame seeds sprinkled onto a plate, to coat.

Store the bars or logs in a box in the fridge, or a cool place, between layers of greaseproof paper until needed.

Hasty Buns

These little bread rolls are akin to scones and are best eaten warm, split and buttered.

Ingredients

1lb/450g plain flour

1 tsp salt (optional)

2tsps baking powder

2oz/50g butter

1 egg, lightly beaten

¼ pint/150ml milk

Method

Preheat the oven to 425
^ºF, 220
^ºC, Gas Mark 7. Grease a baking tray.

Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl and add the baking powder and salt.

Add the butter, using the rubbing-in method.

Mix the milk and beaten egg together, keeping a little bit of the egg back to glaze the rolls with.

Quickly stir the egg and milk mixture into the dry ingredients and then gather it together into a stiff, stretchy dough. (Have a little extra milk on hand, in case it needs a drop or two more, but add cautiously – you don’t want a sticky mass.)

Divide into about sixteen little rolls or balls. Place on the baking tray, brush tops with the last of the beaten egg, and bake in middle of oven for ten to fifteen minutes.

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Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd in 2000

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Source ISBN: 9781847562814

Ebook Edition © March 2013 ISBN: 9780007494088

Version: 2013-09-04

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