COOKERY RECIPES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 15 September 1904, Page 7

COOKERY RECIPES.

DAINTY PUDDINGS FOR T)(E HOME. - —Specially Written by— MISS AMY MONRO. BANANA TRIFLE. Method : Skin and slice jjj doz. bananas, spread on jam and join together, sprinkle over them a little lemon juice and a tablespoonful of icing sugar. Make a boiled custard—l pint of milk, 2 eggs, keeping the whites back, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, flavor nicely. When quite cold pour over bananas; beat whites stiffly, adding 1 tablespoonful of icing sugar gradually, heap roughly on custard, and sprinkle over with pink sugar. LEMON TARTIngredients: For pastry—£ lb. of flour, £ teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, i ozs. of fat or butter, very little water. For. Lemon Cream —4 ozs. of sugar, 1 tablespoonful of butter, rind of 1 and juice of 2 lemons, yolks of two eggs, 1 dessertspoonful of arrowroot, J gill water. Method: Pastry—Mix flour, sugar, and baking powder together, rub in fat or butter, make into a dry dough, roll out a little larger than a plate; cutoff strips of pastry, wet edge of plate, and lay on with cut side out, wet that and line dish with remainder of pastry, ornament the edge, place a piece of toast on middle to keep from rising. Bake till brown and crisp. Cream—Blend arrowroot with water, put sugar, butter, and remainder of water on to boil, stir in blended arrowroot and boil for 1 minute, then add yolks of eggs gradually, and the grated rind and juice of lemon. When cold put in the tart, ornament with white of egg stiffly beaten, sprinkle icing sugar over and put back in the oven to lightly brown. BA)<ED CUSTARD. Ingredients : 4 eggs, 1 pint of milk, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, flavoring (vanilla or lemon). Method : Separate whites from yolks of eggs, beat the yolks with the sugar and flavoring, pour into a greased pie disb, stand in a little water in a baking dish (this prevents custard from boiling), and bake in a moderate oven till set. Beat whites of eggs with a little icing sugar, heap roughly on top, and lightly brown in oven. APPLE AND RICE MERINGUE. Ingredients: 1 doz. apples, 8 ozs. of sugar, | pint of water, J lb. of rice, pinch of salt, 1 pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, 1 pint of water, whites of three eggs, 1 oz. of loaf sugar, cochineal. Method: Peel and cut apples into quarters, boil | pint of water and sugar together, then add apples, simmer till soft. Wash rice, put it into 1 pint of water, boil until rice absorbs the water, then add milk, 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar, and salt, and boil until the rice absorbs all the milk. When apples are soft turn on to an oval dish, mash them to a pulp, beat the whites to a stiff froth. When rico is cooked put it over the apples, raised in the centre ; put white of egg on top and sp'rinklo with pink sugar (loaf sugar with cochineal in it), put into the oven for a minuto to slightly brown. URNEY PUDDING AND JAM SAUCE. Ingrodionts ; £ lb. flour, J teaspoonful of carbonate of soda or 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 2 oz. of sugar, 3 oz. of buttor, 2 oggs, 1 tablespoonful of jam. Mothod : Buttor a pudding mould and a round pioco of papor, larger than tho top of the mould, put on a largo saucepan, with a tightly fitting lid. and enough water to covor half the tin. Bout buttor and sugar to a croam, add oggs and beat thoroughly ; add jam, stir in Hour and carbonato of soda, or baking powder, put in a mould and steam for 1J hours. Soirvo with pink ©r jam sauoo. JAM SAUCE. Ingredients : 1 tablespoonful of jam, C drops of vanilla, 1 toaspoonful of arrowroot, £ pint of water, few drops of carmine, 1 tablespoonful of sugar. Method : Put water, jam, carmine, and sugar into a saucepan, bring to the boil;

thioken with arrowroot, previously moistened with a little cold water and strain, SULTANA PUDDING (WITHOUT EGGS.) Ingredients : 3 small cups of flour, 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter or good dripping, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 teaspoonful of mixed spice, 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of sultanas, 1 piece of chopped candied peel. Method: Rub butter or dripping well into the flour, add sugar, spice, fruit, well cleaned, chopped peel. Dissolve soda in the milk, pour in, mix well. Boil in a scalded and floured cloth for 2£ hours. Serve with sweet sauce.