Edmonds Cookery Book

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EDMONDS COOKERY BOOK
Blue Bird Foods
First printing 1955
49th printing 2001
1998

   New Zealand's best-selling cookbook.

Pg. 34 (BISCUITS):
   AFGHANS
200 g butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/4 cups Champion standard plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa
2 cups cornflakes
Chocolate icing
walnuts (optional)
(...)

Pg. 35:  BELGIUM BISCUITS

Pg. 41:
   MELTING MOMENTS
200 g butter, softened
3/4 cup icing sugar
1 cup Champion standard plain flour
1 cup Edmonds Fielder's cornflour
1/2 teaspoon Edmonds baking powder
Butter Icing or raspberry jam

Pg. 43:  YOYOS

Pg. 70 (BAKING WITH EDMONDS):
   AFGHANS
1 packet Edmonds Chocolate Cake Mix
50 g butter, melted
2 eggs
2 cups cornflakes
3 tablespoons water
Chocolate Icing
walnuts (optional)
(...)

Pg. 193 (PARTY FINGER FOOD):
   MOUSETRAPS
toast bread
grated tasty cheese
finely chopped onion
chutney
salt
pepper
chopped parsley
   Toast the bread on one side only.  Combine cheese and onion.  Spread untoasted side of bread with chutney.  Top with cheese mixture.  Season with salt and pepper to taste.  Place mousetraps on an oven tray.  Grill until golden.  Garnish with chopped parsley.

(Various cheese dishes come under the name "mousetraps."  If OED doesn't add Mousetraps or Melting Moments or Afghans, don't blame me!--ed.)