• 115g/1/4lb margarine
• 1 heaped tablespoon sugar
• 2 heaped tablespoon syrup

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Meatballs

• ¾lb/340g minced beef
• 2oz/57g fresh white breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 3 tbs cooking oil
• 1 small onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 leek
• 2 sticks celery
• 2oz/57g mushrooms
• salt & pepper

Sauce

• 1 heaped tsp cornflower
• 2 level tsp sugar
• ¼pt/142ml water
• 1 dessertspoon tomato ketchup
• 1 tbs vinegar
• 2 tsp soy sauce (optional)
• salt & pepper

Method

1. Place meat, breadcrumbs, egg & seasonings together in a bowl & mix well. Turn onto a floured board & shape into 16 balls.
2. Heat oil in frying pan & fry meatballs until brown all over. Lift out onto plate.
3. Peel & chop onion, peel carrot & cut into slices, slice leek & celery, quarter mushrooms. Add to pan & fry slowly.
4. Place cornflower & sugar in a bowl & gradually stir in water. Add ketchup, vinegar & soy sauce & pour into frying pan, season and cover with a lid or foil. Cook for 30 minutes. Serve with ribbon noodles or mashed potatoes.

Base

• 6oz/170g digestive biscuits
• 1½oz/170g margarine
• 2 level tbs golden syrup

Filling

• 1lb/450g rhubarb
• 2–3oz/57–85g sugar
• ¼pt/142ml water
• 2 level tbs cornflower
• ½ level tsp cinnamon

Method

Grease tin or flan ring. Crush digestive biscuits. Melt margarine & golden syrup & stir in biscuits. Press into a tin and leave to set.

Wash, trim & cut rhubarb.

Dissolve sugar in water in a saucepan. Add rhubarb & cook gently until tender. Drain off syrup. Place cornflower & cinnamon in basin & mix to a thin paste with 2 tbs rhubarb syrup. Add to rhubarb in pan & cook for 2 mins, stirring continuously. Pour into biscuit case & leave to set.

• 1lb/450g sausage meat
• ½ tsp mixed herbs
• 1 small chopped onion
• ½lb/225g cooking apples
• 1 dessertspoon sugar
• 1lb/450g mashed potatoes
• 1 tomato, sliced

Mix sausage meat with herbs & onion. Peel core and slice apples & place in bottom of dish. Sprinkle with sugar, cover with sausage mixture. Cover with potatoes. Decorate with the sliced tomato. Bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes.