GOOD HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 450, 1 December 1904, Page 7

GOOD HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

—Specially Weitten by—. MISS AMY MONRO. STEAK AND KIDNEY PUDDING. Ingredients: lj lbs. of steak, 2 sheep's kidneys, 1 teaspoonful of parsley and eschalot, 1 gill of water, 1 dessertspoonful of flour, pepper and calt. .For the pastry —£ lb. of flour, £ teaspoonful of baking powder, & ozs. of suet, 1J gills of water. Method : Cut steak and kidney into one inch squares, mix chopped parsley, eschalot, pepper, salt, and flour together and mix into the meat. Make suet crust of flour, baking powder, suet (finely chopped) and water, grease a pudding basin, line with § of the pastry, put in meat, and cover meat with water. 801 l out the remainder of the dough and cover the top of the basin, then tie a prepared pudding cloth over and boil for 2£ to 3 hours. JfIUTTON OP YEAL B^OTHIngredients: 1 lb. of scrag mutton, 1 pint of water, 2 tablespoonfuls of barley or rice, pepper and salt, and a little chopped parsley. Method : Take the mutton and cut away the fat; cut the meat into very small pieces and put them into a jar with the water, and a little pepper and salt. Put the barley into a small saucepan with cold water, and when it comes to the boil pour off the water ; put the barley into the jar with the mutton and cook for thsee hours very gently—in the same way as beef tea. Pour off against the lid into a basin, and stand the latter in cold water to cool the fat which rises to the top. When cool, remove all fat and reheat the broth ; sprinkle finely chopped parsley on top. Veal broth is made in the same wa»y, substituting fillet or breast of veal for inaitton. JfIODE OF STEWING STEAK. The following is a very delicious mode of stewing steak: Take 1 lb. of rump steak, 2 sheep's kidneys, one large Spanish onion, one carrot, one turnip, one breakfastcupful of good stock, flour to discretion, and a pinch of pepper and salt. Cut the steak in strips, £ inch thick and 2 inches long, dip them in flour and roll up each strip and fry it brown. Cut the kidneys in slices, dip them in flour, and fry them. Slice the onion carrot and turnip ; fry them for a few minutes. Then pour on all some boiling [stock, jwid let the steak, -etc., feimmer or stew gentjy for a"n hour and

a quarter. This mode of dishing up stea k is not commonly followed, but is a pleasant change from the more ordinarily. adopted modes.

SCONES. Ingredients: J lb of self-raising flour, a good pinch of salt, 1 dessertspoonful of butter $ breakfast cupful of milk. Method: Mix salt into the flour, rub butter in lightly, add milk, mix quiokly into a moist dough, knead very little, roll car, cut into shapes, bake in a very hot oven ten minutes. To glaze them, wipe off the flour when cooked, brush milk over the top and return to the oven for one minute to dry. ECONOMICAL TEA CAKES. Ingredients.: 1 tablespoonful of buttor, 2 heaped tablespoonfuls of sugar, 1 egg, £ cup of milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Method : Beat butter and sugar together, add beaten egg, then milk gradually, then flour and baking powder. Mix quickly, and bake in greased patty tins or sandwich tins in a hot oven. When baked, glaze with syrup.

To make syrup, boil one dessertspoonful of sugar and water together for 1 minute.