Baked Fruit Pudding

·         500 ml. (2 cups ) self-rising flour

·         2 ml. (½ tsp.) salt

·         10 ml. (2 tsp.)bicarbonate of  soda

·         125 ml (½ cup) sugar

·         2 eggs, beaten

·         410 g (1 tin) fruit cocktail

Sauce

·         125 ml. (½ Cup ) sugar

·         125 ml. (½ cup ) water

·         125 ml. (½ Cup ) coconut

·         38 ml (3 tbsp.) margarine or butter

·         1 small tin (170g ) evaporated milk

1. Lightly grease an oven – proof dish, 22 x 22 cm, with margarine. Preheat oven to 180⁰C.

2. Mix the flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and sugar in a mixing bowl.

3. Add fruit cocktail (with juice) to the beaten eggs and mix with a wooden spoon.

4. Mix lightly into flour mixture. Put mixture into the ovenproof dish and bake for 35 minutes.

5. Put sauce ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for about 3 minutes.

6. Pour sauce over the baked pudding and serve. 

All Women Should Read This

Eat well, live longer

If you want to live longer, take a look at the foods in your weekly shopping basket. It may sound like trite advice, but a healthy diet really is key to longevity.

What you put into your mouth has a dramatic effect on the way your body functions. Food is far more than just fuel to keep you going and to stop the hunger pangs. It’s an essential source of energy, assists in growth and repair, and helps to regulate and protect the body. Your body is an intricate machine with many complicated functions and your body needs many different nutrients to keep it functioning well. As soon as you start disturbing its delicate balance with an unhealthy diet and lifestyle, you are bound to get ill.

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Food Safety and Hygiene

1. Always wash your hands before handling any food.

2. Always wash fruit and vegetables before using them.

3. Ensure your work surfaces and chopping boards are clean. Keep a separate chopping board for preparing raw meat.

4. Cool leftover food as quickly as possible, ideally within one to two hours, and then store covered in the fridge.

5. Leftover rice must be stored covered and for longer than one day.

6. Do not buy cracked eggs.

7. If you are reheating food, make sure you heat all the way through  and until it is piping hot. Do not reheat food more than once. Do not keep leftovers for longer than two days.

8. Once thawed, do not   refreeze raw food unless you have cooked it first.

9. Read and follow the use-by dates on packaging and jars.

10 Children, pregnant women or the elderly should not eat recipes that contain eggs.

11. Ensure that your fridge is 5⁰C or less and the deep freeze is at least-20⁰C.

12. Change and wash tea towels, towels, dishcloths, aprons an oven gloves often. Keep your pets away from surfaces and tables.

13. Organise your fridge so that meat is kept separately and on the bottom shelf. Keep dairy produce together  and fruit, vegetables and salad ingredients in the salad compartment.

14. Store raw foods separately from cooked foods to avoid contamination.

15. After shopping, put all food for the refrigerator and freezer into their allotted places as soon as possible.