old Bero recipe

Auntiflo If it was a 50s cook book it was probably written in the days of post war rationing which continued until 4/7/1954.

Just reading this thread makes for nostalgia. Although I don't have a BeRo book, I do have a Stork cookery book from the early 1950's. It is held together with brown sticky paper tape, very dog eared and much used, complete with real stains. What gets me with modern recipes is the amount of eggs that are used now. Two almost always was sufficient, but these days it is three or four. Why? Do they taste any different? Any ideas?

Thanks Nellie !

Phoenix
There was this post about how you can order the lastest edition of thje cookery book, this was further down the thread.

"Dear Be-Ro lovers,
For the 41st edition Be-Ro recipe book, send your name and address along with your payment for £2.50 (this includes P&P to UK) to The Be-Ro kitchen, PO Box 100, Blackburn, Lancs, BB0 1GR. Cheques or postal orders only. No cash please. "

Oh heavens, this brings back so many memories! My Gran had a Bero book, as I remember a sort of half page, slim book and as a youngster I used to make a fruitcake from that book, I was probably about 8?

Has anyone got that recipe?

I made the milk chocolate cake as our Christmas cake this year (only DH likes rich fruit cake), covered in the milk chocolate icing and decorated. Everyone agreed it was delicious and kept really well.

I have just recieved my two copies of the the new BeRo cookery book, the same size but on shiny glossy pages.

What really amused me is that there are printed food splashes on several pages. Just to prove it's a good cook book.

I had almost forgotten I had sent for them. One is for DD.
Thank you BeRO.

I made melting moments on Saturday with GS. He enjoyed it and they were delicious (what was left of the mixture when he'd finished eating bits of it, and the cherries!). I used to make them with my mum - i'd forgotten how easy they were.

Thanks fellow gransnetters! perfect idea for stocking fillers for DIL's hope I'm not to late. I remember the little book clearly cooking by my mothers nay grandma's side. I am 63 and if memory serves my first tested recipe was cheese scones.

Woohoo! Thank you, gardnermum

The recipe is on their website:

Milk Chocolate Cake serves 12

200 g (7 oz) Be-Ro Self Raising Flour
225 g (8 oz) caster sugar
1 x 2.5 ml spoon (½ tsp) salt
25 g (1 oz) cocoa powder, sieved
100 g (4 oz) margarine
2 medium eggs
5 x 15 ml spoon (5 tbsp) evaporated milk
5 x 15 ml spoon (5 tbsp) water
few drops vanilla essence

1 Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease 2 x 20.5 cm (8 inch) tins, not loose-bottomed as the mixture would run out.
2 Mix flour, sugar, salt and cocoa.
3 Rub in margarine. Beat eggs with milk.
4 Stir egg mixture, essence and liquids into the dry ingredients and beat well.
5 Place mixture in prepared tins and bake for about 30-35 minutes.
6 When cold sandwich and top with Milk Chocolate Icing (see above).

Has your photocopy got the chocolate cake recipe in it, dunit? You know I have to test all chocolate cakes, especially the fudgy ones.

Oh the milk chocolate cake. Was that the one with evaporated milk? My kids adored it. I used to use my little book every Friday when I did loads of baking for the weekend ?

That's the one, with a tin of evaporated milk delish!!

Was it the milk chocolate cake, annsixty? I make this several times a year. It never fails and is always yummy.

I also have about three quarters of the original small book and last year bemoaned the fact that a particularly delicious choc cake recipe was lost. A GNetter who called herself Beewitch PM'd it to me , for which many thanks but sadly she was very short lived on here. I found the newer book did miss some recipes out, the choc cake being one.

Forget the Melting Moments, it's Coffee Kisses that you need!

Oh, yes please, dunit! Next time we meet up.

Baking things from the Bero book was my displacement activity when I was supposed to be doing A-level revision. No regrets!

I used to use my Be-Ro book constantly when children were little. Got lost when we moved house. Visited an old friend last year and she still had hers, so she photo copied it for me. So pleased to have the old recipes back. You can't beat them. Any time you want a copy thatbags will be pleased to pass one onto you. Or maybe it's just the melting moments you like.

You can go onto their website too:

www.be-ro.co.uk

and there are still old books for sale on e-bay, etc. Just Google 'be-ro book' and you will find them. Wouldn't it without mine.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I was recently thinking about my DM's old Be-ro book and in particular about melting moments. It's ages since I baked (we just eat it) but I am going to make some for friends coming next week.

and for everyone who passed on the recipe

Made a batch this morning before brekkie (been up since five). I've just had a couple and they were fab .

Oh, melting moments were lovely. I still have bits of a Bero cook book. It is on what was cheap paper which is now yellow and crumbling.
Thanks for that link Gardenermum.

I will get one for my daughter as well.

It looks from Gardenermum's photo as if my recipe has been copied out wrongly at some stage, as the ratios of lard to butter have been reversed. I've been using my version for over thirty years, so don't know whether to change it now or not .

My mother made these every week, think I'll do some at the weekend. #nostalgia