Old Cookery Books 2

Today I have another of my old cookery books to share with you, this time from 1986.  Shirley Goode was one of my favourite cooks on TV, she used to appear on a programme called Pebble Mill at One. Later  she had her own programme The Goode Kitchen and this is the book that accompanied the series. I have just about read the words from the pages of this book, its crammed full of lovely economic recipes and lots of useful information about stretching the grocery budget. I would like to share with you one of my favourite recipes.

Shirley's Carrot Cake

110gm Sugar

110gm Margarine

2 Eggs

1 dessertspoon Black Treacle

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

175gm Self Raising Flour

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

175gm grated carrot

50gm chopped Walnuts

Icing 

175gm Low Fat Curd Cheese

50gm Butter

175gm Icing Sugar.

Beat the sugar and the margarine, add the eggs and treacle, Sift the flour, baking powder and cinnamon and fold into the mixture. Stir in the carrots and the nuts. Put the mixture into a lined cake tin.  Bake Gas 4 or 180*c  for about an hour.  Test with a skewer to make sure its cooked.  Cool on a wire rack.  Mix together all the icing ingredients until smooth and spread on top of the cooled cake.

                                          
 I used a 6" loose bottomed round tin with a paper liner.

 Here is the finished cake, we don't have the icing on the top as we think its delicious without and it saves on a few calories.

I did take a photo of a slice but seem to have lost it!! and the cake has been eaten :-)

I hope you will try this recipe, its so easy and as it has carrots in then it must be healthy LOL  well carrots are one of your 5 a day!

Thank you Shirley for so many fabulous recipes and for giving me such a Goode book to treasure.

PS I have another of Shirley's books Goode for One which I will share another day.

You can read Shirley' Blog here

Thank you for looking

Karen xxx