New zealand rock cakes

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       Title: New Zealand Rock Cakes
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 6 servings
  
       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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