TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 2 January 1912, Page 9

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

I Specially written for Tub Dominion.] TUESDAY. Boiled leg of mutton. Caper Sauce, Potatoes. Carrots. Turnips. Cherry custard. CHEERY CUSTARD. One small bottle of cherries, 6ozs. loaf sugar, 1 teaspoonful cornflour,. 1 toaspoonful lemon juice,., a few drops cochineal, 3 eggs,. 3 gills milk, 1 gill cream,-loz..castor sugar. Strain the juice from the cherries, and mix the cornflour to a smooth paste with 1 tablcspoonful of it. I'ut the remainder in a stewpan, with the loaf sugar, lemon, juice, and sufficient carmine to colour a rich pink. Simmer. 5 minutes.-. Add the . cherries (stoned), hnd'simmer for I.o.minutes. Beat ujv.tho eggs with the castor'-.sugar and cream.-.'Boil the mill;, pour if over them, and; two-thirds fill. a. .ouftered'.-pie.-: dish with- the-(mixture. (Add'one-fourth of the cherries (which should have been drained: from .'the syrup), ;and set the piedish in a .deep, tin haltVlilled. with hot water. i'-Bako in a cool oven 'until the' custard- is-set. Add the cornflour to the cherries, boil up, and simmer 10 minutes. When the' custard is baked, cover the top with the' remainder of the cherries, pour on the syrup, and serve cither hot. or cold, -" FOR TO-MORROW. ' - ' Cold mutton, lib. tomatoes. Pastry. Cauliflower. Dates.