Orange and Lemon Slice

This recipe has been in my family for generations and in it's time has been known by a few different names. The first name, Orange and Lemon Slice, describes what it is. However when I was a child, my grandmother always had some in the fridge and I took to calling it Pa's Bikkies because my Pa loved it so much.

When my uncle joined the family, he started calling it Dead Stuff because he thought that is what it looked like. He still calls it Dead Stuff to this day.

When I moved to England, I started making it every Christmas to take to my husbands family in South Wales and the recipe developed a whole new fan base as my husbands family fell in love with it. I didn't realise how much they liked it until we had moved to Australia and they contacted us the first Christmas we were gone and said "Um can we have the recipe for that slice you used to make at Christmas?"

I have made little tweaks over the years of making it and it has become a firm favourite with the next generation of my family as my kids now love it and ask regularly for it to be made.

Pro Tips

• Use a food processor to crush your biscuits to crumbs - it will do a thorough job and be a lot quicker than my grandmothers method of putting the biscuits in a plastic bag and bashing it with a rolling pin!

• Use a stand mixer to combine ingredients for base together - it will do a thorough job and make sure you don't have any dry biscuit crumbs left in the bottom of your bowl.

• I tried to convert this to gluten free for a friend once, using gluten free biscuits in the base. It worked in the end but I only needed about half the butter

Click here for the recipe for my Orange and Lemon Slice

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Lamentations 5:19

"You O Lord rule forever. Your throne is from generation to generation."