New zealand rock cakes

1 c  All-purpose flour
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  butter or margarine
    1/2 c  Sugar
           Seedless raisins
      2 tb Orange marmalade *
      1    Egg; beaten slightly
 
  Recipe by: TERRY HARRIS   (FASA32B)
     * (look in the jelly section in a store or international/gourmet food
  sections)   Preheat overn 425 degrees F. Sift flour & salt into mixing
  bowl, blend in butter /or margerine using clean hands until it is like fine
  bread crumbs. Add sugar, rasins, & marmalade & mix well with spoon. Add egg
  & blend in flour mixture until stiff & rocky.
      The mixture must be stiff, or it will lose shape when baking. Pull off
  golf ball size chunks of dough & drop on cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.
  Do not smooth out dough pieces. Bake in oven for 15 mins. until lightly
  browned.
  
      Remove from oven & turn rock cakes bottom side up to cool. Served as a
  snack with milk or tea. Rock cakes is one of the oldest know written New
  Zealand recipes & dates back to 1861. The dough should be made as rough as
  possible. They were popular tea-time treats of the original English
  settlers. Serves 6-8.  Terry Harris
 
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