Venison Parcels - Six syns Per serving - Serves 2.

Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• Frylight
• 1 garlic clove
• 100g mushrooms
• A small handful of chopped parsley
• 2 large sheets of filo pastry
• 2 venison steaks
• Worcestershire sauce

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to Gas mark 7.
2.  Fry the onion, garlic, mushrooms and a little worchestershire sauce in a frying pan for 6 minutes, stirring. Turn of the heat, stir in the parsley and season, then set to one side off the heat.
3. Cut a Filo pastry sheet in half. Place one of the venison steaks in the middle of one half. Spoon over half of the cooked mushroom mix from the pan, wrap the pastry around the mushroom covered steak, and spray with Frylight. Wrap again with the other half of the pastry sheet, and spray with a little more Frylight. Repeat for the other steak and place on a baking tray sprayed with Frylight.
4. Bake the parcels for 30 minutes. Serve with vegetables of your choice.

Baked Mini Ring Doughnuts - 50 doughnuts - 1 syn each.

Ingredients:

• Frylight
• 200g wholemeal flour – 32 syns
• 25g sweetener
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 small eggs,
• 100ml skimmed milk – 2 syns
• 3 teaspoons light margarine, melted - 1.5 syns
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons fat free fromage frais

For the topping:

• 3 teaspoons caster sugar – 3 syns
• 3 tablepoons sweetener
• 3 tablespoons cinnamon

38.5 syns for the whole mixture.

Method:

Mix ingredients in a bowl. Pour the mixture into a mini doughnut tray. Place in a pre-heated oven at Gas mark 4 for 20 minutes. Let cool. In a bowl mix the brown sugar and sweetener until there are no lumps. Push the doughnuts out of the tray, spray the doughnuts with frylight and roll in the topping mixture and serve.


Doughnuts were only really available from American soldiers during the war but this recipe is a "half-way house" between the American doughnut and the British sweet fritter. For more memories of doughnuts during the war see the link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/76/a3958176.shtml

French toast - 1 syn per serving - serves 2

This is a fab french toast recipe. Really easy to make. If you want to spend less syns on this use the toast as a healthy extra B. Otherwise count 7 syns for 1 serving.

Ingredients:
4 slices of wholemeal nimble bread
2 eggs
100ml milk
2 tbsp sweetner
2 tsp cinnamon
Frylight
2 plums
A handful of berries
Fat free fromage frais

Method:
In a bowl mix eggs, milk, 1 tbsp sweetner and cinnamon. Put the bowl to one side. Cut the plums up and pop in a pan with the berries and remaining tbsp sweetner. Cook on a low heat. In the meantime spray a frying pan with Frylight and put on a medium heat. Cut the bread in halves. Pop the bread into the egg mixture, making sure to cover both sides before transfering to the frying pan. Cook on both sides until brown. Put the toast onto a plate, top with the fruit mixture and a generous spoonful of fromage frais.

For further information on the history of french toast: 

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/french-toast-was-not-invented-in-france/