Recipes from Edinburgh

When we went to church in Edinburgh they were doing a lovely thing after lunch - a charity recipe swap. People brought recipes and read them out...if you wanted a copy you put some money in a tin and the funds raised went to buy tools in an African country.
I thought this was a great idea.
Here are some of the ones I bought....

Honey BBQ Chicken
2oz butter
4oz onions - chopped
1 clove garlic
1 can tomatoes
2 tblsp Worcester sauce
1 tblsp honey
seasoning
leftover chicken (can be cooked after Sunday dinner)

Combine butter, onions & garlic - fry. Add toms, Worc sauce, honey & chicken. Season. Cook gently for 1/2 hour. If you like hotter add tabasco.
Serve with potatoes, rice or couscous.

Whatever You Like Muffins
50g butter
150g SR flour
50g caster sugar
half tsp baking powder
1 egg
110 ml milk
120g of "whatever you like" eg chocolate chips, blueberries, apple & cinnamon or berries

Oven 200/400 or gas mark 6

Melt butter in saucepan
Sieve flour and add sugar & baking powder in a bowl
Break egg whisk in a separate bowl
Add egg & milk to the melted butter
Then add the flour mix to the saucepan - mix lightly, not a lot
Add "whatever you like"
Divide mixture into muffin cases & place on a muffin tray
Bake for around 20 mins

The next one is a medieval recipe....it keeps 2/3 weeks in the fridge if left unsliced
Date Slices with Spiced Wine
800g stoneless black dates
425ml medium dry white wine
75g soft brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
6 hard boiled egg yolks
175g soft brown breadcrumbs (not wholemeal)
45-60mls Madeira wine with a pinch of mixed spice

Break up the dates and simmer with the wine & sugar until pulpy
Pound or food process (not very medieval!) until almost smooth
Mix in spices and work in the egg yolks
In a bowl knead in enough breadcrumbs to make the mixture as stiff as marzipan.
Form into a 5cm diameter roll and chill until firm
Cut into 5mm slices
Arrange overlapping on a plate and trickle a drop or two of cooled spiced wine over each slice

Fat Elvis Sandwich
2 slices white bread
peanut butter
1 banana- sliced
4oz butter

Lightly toast the bread and spread PB on both slices. Place slices of banana on top and make into a sandwich. Melt butter in a frying pan and fry for seven minutes until brown on both sides.

I love this sandwich but have never tried it toasted/hot before but I got bananas at the supermarket this morning to try it this weekend. Yummy!