"Fill the gaps pud"

When my sister and myself were small in the post war years, our Mum would make a fruit sponge pudding she called "fill the gaps" pud. For years I thought this was the title of this pudding . Before she passed ,it was talked about by my oldest son who had had this pudding served by myself to him,often with icream , or cream and then the true receipe was revealed. My youngest son gave me apples off a very old apple tree at his property. I made an apple fruit sponge and so the legend goes to another generation, as his 14 month old daughter just loved it . APPLE OR FRUIT SPONGE PUDDING. Half fill a pudding dish or pie dish with stewed fruit or tinned peaches,apples or frozen fruit of your choice. SPONGE FOR TOP. 4oz Butter. 4oz sugar.1 egg. 2tablespoons milk. 4oz flour. 2teaspoons Baking Powder. Cream butter and sugar,add egg and milk and beat well. Add sifted flour and baking powder and pour over fruit. Bake about 3/4hour at 190oC,{375oF} . Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve hot. Great cold the next evening if there is any left. The other mother-in-law has made this with fresh peaches off the peach treeand thanked me for the wonderful pud.

'A Truck Carrying Eggs has Rolled South of Kaikoura

A truck carrying eggs rolled south of Kaikoura
sometime last year, radio news reported.

So I'm thinking of this eggy subject above -
it's like my writing, that's sure not sunnyside up.
When rhythm is called for stressed or unstressed,
I'm more than stressed, let it be said!
Which emotion, happy or sad, joy or dread
do I express?

Colours! I've written no colours, perhaps I'm drab,
but eggs are yellow, orange and white, speckled and brown,
a red dot sometimes. They don't smell unless they're bad, oh!
What if the tarmac was hot, egg on black, opposing the AA
sign, that they said got smashed. Kaikoura, now that's a name,
whales to watch, waves to shame. Alliteration, that's my game.
A rhyme! I love it when I'm going to reach my poetry/recipe
deadline on time!!

Savoury Hot Cakes
4 tablespoon of SR Flour
1/2 teasp. of tumeric
Salt
Teasp of Fenugreek leaves or coriander
1 Egg, a little milk.
Beat well and add
1/4 -1/2 chopped onion
1/4 -1/2 grated carrot
A big handful of finely sliced silverbeet (chard) or spinach.

Cook in a hot frying pan in spoonfuls, turning over when lightly brown
on the underside. Very nice with lemon yoghurt or sour cream.

Desert for Christmas Dinner

For more than 20years,Aunty , myself, and a group of friends, have been producing Mid Year Christmas Dinner. Orginally for a fundraising gimmick, where we fed and entertained 100plus people, to a more orderly 35 in my home. Each year there is the challenge of new dishes to make and try. This is one that proved very popular. OREO MOUSSE PIE CRUST; 2 packets Oreo Biscuits crushed. {350 grams} 75g melted butter. To make the crust, combine the crushed biscuits with the melted butter. Press into a pie plate. Chill in the fridge while making the filling. MOUSSE. 350g cream cheese, 180g sweetened condensed milk, 170 dark chocolate , melted, 1 cup cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla essence, 1pkt Oreo biscuits halved. MOUSSE. Whisk the cream cheese until aoft. Mix in the condensed milk and melted chocolate. In a separate bowl,whisk the cream and vanilla essence, until soft peaks form. Fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture. Pour half of the mixture over the biscuit crust. Place the halved Oreo biscuits on top of the mixture then pour the remaining mixture on top. Refrigerate for 4 hours or until it is set. Serves 8 to 10