SELF-SUFFICIENCY WASTE NOTHING

HOW TO USE GINGER NUT BISCUITS

Although most of the recipes I will provide under the self-sufficiency category will be related to preserving, storing and utilizing produce from my garden, there will be other recipes like the ones I’m including today.

My daughters share my love of food and on a visit for my birthday back in April they decided to show me a quick and easy way to prepare Lemon Cheese Tartlets. For these they needed three ingredients.

• 1 packet of Ginger Nut Biscuits
• 1 jar of lemon butter
• 1 container of cream cheese.

Lemon Cheese tartlet ingredients

For the filling, blend the tub of cream cheese with the jar of lemon butter. Place biscuits in the base of lined patty pans. If they are too large heat 2-3 biscuits at a time in the microwave for about 10 seconds. The heated biscuits are pliable and can be moulded as a tart shell into small pans. Work quickly with the biscuits before they cool and then repeat the process with the next couple of biscuits.

Preparing Lemon Cheese Tartlets

Top the biscuit with the filling, and place the pan in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and garnish with raspberries or other fruits, and dust with icing sugar to serve. To serve our tartlets we decorated them with preserved mulberries and fresh mint leave before dusting with icing sugar.

Lemon Cheese Tartlets as dessert

My daughters say these are great to keep in the freezer for a standby dessert. As a result of their visit a small quantity of the Ginger Nut biscuits were left behind in my pantry. Seeing them there this week and remembering the saying, “Waste not, want not,” I recalled a recipe my mother had given me many years ago, that required Ginger Nut biscuits.

MEATBALLS in GINGER RAISIN SAUCE

• 500g beef mince
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup soft breadcrumbs
• ¼ cup flour
• 1 onion finely chopped
• ½ teaspoon salt
• Pepper
• 6 Ginger Nut biscuits
• 3 cups water
• 2 beef stock cubes
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup raisins
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• Combine meat with the next 6 ingredients, using the hand for mixing.
• Shape into 24 small balls.
• Place ginger nuts and water in a pot and bring to boil.
• Stir in beef cubes, sugar, raisins and lemon juice.
• Add meat balls.
• Cook uncovered over low heat for 10 minutes.
• Turn meat balls, spooning sauce over them.
• Cook 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.

Meatballs in Ginger Raisin Sauce

Because this is a sweet sauce I chose to serve the meatballs with plain boiled rice. If you have left over products in your pantry and want my advice on how to Waste Not, Want Not, please write to me. For many years I have been recognised as ‘A Woman Who Knows Things’.

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