SUNDAY’S DINNER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 17

SUNDAY’S DINNER

Menu For Two People

Tapioca soup, casserole chicken, pineapple fritters, lettuce salad, lemon pie, coffee. .

Tapioca. Soup. Crush one dessertspoonful tapioca and soak in cold water overnight. Make 1 pint of stock by placing the feet and giblets of the chicken in a saucepan, covering well with water. Add a tiny sprig of thyme, J of a bay leaf, a slice of onion, and a small piece of ham or bacon. Simmer gently for 2 hours, then strain. Bring to the oil again, sprinkle in the tapioca," and cook for 30 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon cream. Season with popper and salt, and serve. Casserole Chieken.

Take lloz. butter, 1 small chicken, some herbs tied in a piece of muslin, TToz. flour, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 tomato, small glass sherry, 1 small dessertspoon meat extract. Put the butter in a casserole, and, when hot, fry the chicken (whole or cut with joints) until a light brown. Fry the onion and carrot, cut into slices, then add the flour and brown all a golden brown. Add 1 pint of water or stock, the herbs, tomatoes, sherry,. and meat extract. Stir over the fire until boiling. Put in the chicken and simmer all together for about an hour, or until the chicken is tender. Lift out the chicken, strain the gravy, and return all to the casserole. Some stoned olives may be added if liked. Heat well through again and serve in the casserole.

Pineapple Fritters. These are delicious served witli tlie chicken. Take I small cup flour, -1 teaspoon baking powder, a little salt, and 1 egg. Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together, and add enough milk to make a smooth, thick batter. Beat in the yolk of the egg and lastly tlie beaten white. Take two rings of pineapple, cut in Im If, coat thoroughly with tlie batter, ami fry them to a golden brown in deep, hot fat or lard. Drain on paper. Lemon Pie.

Take 1 egg, its weight in rice flour, and sugar, loz. butter, 1 teaspoon baking .powder, pinch salt, 1 gill water, 3oz. sugar, 1 teaspoon cornflour, 1 lemon, 2 eggs, 2oz. castor sugar. Rub the butter into the rice flour, add the baking powder and salt. Mix well and add beaten egg. Put into a buttered fireproof dish, spread tlie mixture evenly, and bake for 10 or 15 minutes. Put tlie sugar and wa’ter into a saucepan. When boiling, add the cornflour, mixed with a little water, tlie grated rind of tlie lemon, anti the juice. Add tlie yolks of the eggs and cook until the mixture thickens. Spread over tlie cake. Beat the whites of the eggs stiffly, adding the castor sugar, and pile on top of the lemon. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in a slow oven for 30 minutes.

A school of about 30 porpoises were sighted recently by a party of yachtsmen when sailing down the western Coast of Rangitoto. The fish, which were proceeding seaward in a long line, turned about on the approach of the yacht, and followed it for about half a mile. • Quite suddenly they left the boat, and, forming iuto line, once again headed toward the north and made off at great speed.