Amy Johnson Slice
Amy Johnson was a pioneering British aviator and she became famous when she flew solo from England to Australia in 1930. What a great and dangerous task for a woman in those times! I found in my Mother's cookbook. She had a couple of versions of this recipe, but this is the one she seemed to use. This was a popular recipe here in Australia, with lots of housewives in the 1930 and 1940's. It was a handwritten recipe, in mum's day everything was written so differently to today, some ingredients not written in the ingredients but listed in the directions, no oven temperatures given.......... so I have had to reinterperate this recipe.. N.B. A lemon Icing is needed to ice this slice, but again no recipe given for that, so use your own favourite lemon icing.
DIRECTIONS
- Set oven to moderate teperature.
- Rub the butter into flour and salt, mix to a firm dough with a little milk. Roll out to ¼ inch thickness and cover the base (only the base) of a greased 20cm square tin with pastry.
- Spread with raspberry jam and sprinkle with 1 cup currants.
- Topping: Beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Fold in the sifted flour and then the melted butter and milk and pour over the top of the pastry.
- Bake about 40 minutes in mod. oven. When cold, ice with thin lemon icing and sprinkle with coconut.