GINGER FUDGE SLICE

This simple, sweet slice is from Recipes my Mother Taught

Me, a collection published by the Christchurch Presbyterian Social Service Association.

125g butter

1 cup sugar

1 tbsp golden syrup

½ cup milk

¼ tin condensed milk

1 packet gingernuts

½ cup chopped walnuts

½ tsp vanilla essence Desiccated coconut

1 In a saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup, milk and condensed milk. Simmer for half an hour, stirring occasionally to make sure it doesn’t burn.

2 Process the gingernuts to a fine crumb. Stir the gingernuts, walnuts and vanilla into other ingredients.

3 Press into a Swiss roll tin and sprinkle with coconut.