Pineapple-Strawberry Island

This dish has a very fruity and exciting name :)!
The recipe calls for a packaged, commercial strawberry jelly (or ‘gelatine’) and tells you to follow the directions on the package. I’ve commented in numerous entries on this blog about the usage of commercial food products as a sign of changing times, and also written about [...]

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Marble/Marmer Cake

Grandmother originally titled this recipe ‘Marmer Cake’ and later changed it to ‘Marble Cake’. A search for Marmer Cake recipes on the internet threw up mostly Indonesian websites and a couple of Dutch ones, so I used some online dictionaries and confirmed that marmer is indeed the Dutch word for ‘marble’. I wonder if this [...]

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Pineapple Pie or Tart

Please don’t be fooled – this is not the recipe for traditional, nonya pineapple tarts made for Chinese New Year. This is a western pie recipe for which the filling is pineapple. Grandma also had a recipe for Pineapple Pie Filling that you might want to have a look at.
Interesting food journeys are hinted at [...]

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Honey Peanut Butter Cookies

“Pea-nut” as an alternative spelling is very cute :)!
Anyway, this recipe (which grandmother penned in turquoise fountain pen ink so is clearly from the 1960s or 70s) got me thinking about when commercial peanut butter became available. A quick check on the internet revealed that some of the popular brands today, Skippy and Peter Pan, [...]

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Pandan Cake

This is not in my grandmother’s handwriting and it’s indicated in the title of the page that this is ‘Aunty Rosie’s’ recipe. Wonder if this was Aunty Rosie’s handwriting? This is way before my time as I have absolutely no idea who ‘Aunty Rosie’ is!
The use of ballpoint pen and self-raising flour (when was that [...]

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Cheese Straws

The instructions here don’t give the precise oven temperature, so you might want to check out this chart of oven temperatures.
It also doesn’t specify what kind of cheese, but I would assume it’s a hard cheese like cheddar that can be grated.

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Oven temperatures and baking measures

Many people have been waiting for me to put up grandmother’s baking recipes. I’ve now completed uploading the savoury recipes from the 1957 notebook, so it will be cakes and sweet stuff after this.
To start with, here are some general notes she copied into her notebook. I can imagine my grandmother carefully weighing out the [...]

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Pong Tauhu

Another one of my favourite dishes, and one that we used to have quite often on the dinner table at home. However, in recent years we haven’t enjoyed this dish, and looking back I guess it coincides with the time that my grandmother stopped going to the wet market (and visited only supermarkets) because it [...]

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