RASPBERRY COCONUT SLICE

When I was a child this recipe was converted to Blackberry Coconut Slice.  Blackberries grew everywhere when I was little and we would go out to the bush and collect them in buckets.  I'd get scratched to pieces doing this and get red stain on me because I ate more than I collected. 

But it was fun.  These days the blackberry briar's in the wild are poisoned by councils so its not a great idea to try to consume them any more.  Raspberry Jam is still one of the cheapest to purchase and it doesn't have to be the top label jam when using it in combination like in the recipe below.

Ingredients:

BASE
1 Cup Self Raising Flour
1/3 Cup Castor Sugar
1/4 Cup Coconut
125 grams butter (melted)

TOPPING
1 Cup of Coconut
1/4 Cup Castor Sugar
1 Tablespoon Corn Flour
1 Egg lightly beaten
1/4  Cup of Raspberry Jam

Method:

 MAKING THE BASE

1.  Sift Flour into a bowl
2.  Add Sugar and coconut
3. Mix in butter
4.  Press into a tin and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes

5.  Cool and spread Raspberry Jam all over

MAKING THE TOPPING

1.  In a bowl mix together Coconut Sugar and Cornflour
2.  Beat and Egg and mix into this mixture

3   Spread on top of  jam covered base

4.  Bake in a moderate oven for  20 minutes

5.  When slightly cool cut into slices

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