Tag: Margaret Fulton
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Margaret Fulton’s Peanut Butter Cookies: A Classic Recipe
Peanuts and peanut butter seem to be having a renaissance. When I go down to Melbourne ,which is the centre of hipster food in Australia, peanuts seem to have squeezed their way back onto menu of all the best cafes. I even saw peanut and jelly pancakes on the breakfast menu at Lolo & Wren…
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Things to bake after a firestorm: Date and walnut rolls
Last Thursday morning, I posted a recipe for a snowpea, almond mint and blood orange salad and I wrote that it was the perfect thing to eat when recovering from the heat of a potentially catastrophic fire day, like the day we experienced on the previous Thursday. When I posted this in the morning it…
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Nostalgic Homemade Pikelets: A Childhood Favorite
Pikelets, or drop scones, were one of the first things I can remember cooking as a kid. We had an old fashioned electric frypan, which was perfect for cooking fritters and pikelets. I would sit up on the kitchen bench next to the frypan and help my older sister spoon out the batter and…
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Classic Buttermilk Scones Recipe for Traditional Australian Morning and Afternoon Teas
One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking me to her weekly Country Women’s Association meetings while my older brother and sisters attended school. We lived on a farm just outside Wagga Wagga and my mother attended a small rural branch of the CWA near the farming community of Brucedale, where we lived.…
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Margaret Fulton’s Fairy Cakes Recipe: Delightful and Nostalgic Treat
Back in the days before cupcakes had taken over the world, there was only the humble patty cake. You could turn these cakes into butterfly cakes by slicing off the tops cutting them in half and arranging them as wings on top of a the cake with a dollop of cream (my mother used to…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 