Tried Recipes.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 2, 12 April 1927, Page 5

Tried Recipes.

(By "Isadora")

Lemon Honey (without eggs).—2lb marrow, 2£lb sugar, lib butter, 4 lemons. Boil marrow to a pulp and strain well. Add juice and rind of lemons, sugar and butter. Boil 20 minutes.

Tango Cakes.—lib butter, 1 small cup sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon mixed spice, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon milk, lib walnuts. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs well beaten, milk and dry ingredients, mix well.

Nut Bread.— h cup sugar, \ teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 cups flour 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 egg, piece of butter size of a walnut melted. Mix well with milk. Bake 1 hour.

Butter Filling for Cakes.—2 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons icing sugar, 1 tablespoon chopped nuts or raisins, 3 or 4 drops essence. Cream butter and sugar well, then add nuts and essence.

Pikelets.—3 tablespoons sugar, 1 egg, beat together. Add 1 cup milk and 1 teaspoon soda mixed, 2 teacups flour. Beat well together. Then add 2 teaspoons cream of tartar.

Eggs Baked in Tomatoes.—Have moderately large tomatoes, cut off the tops and scoop out some of the pulp. Season and drop an egg into each. Place on a greased dish and bake about 15 minutes. Take the part scooped out, season and heat over fire with some butter. Put this through a sieve, re-heat and serve as sauce. The tomatoes may be placed on slices of fried bacon or toast.

Spanish Steak.—For lib of steak mix J teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 teaspoons flour, i teaspoon soda, 1 dessertspoon vinegar, 1 dessertspoon Worcester sauce. Put steak into a dish with sauce and 2 tablespoons cold water. Bake for li hours.

Plum Pudding.—2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups mixed fruit (heaped), 1 tablespoon butter melted in 1 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon baking soda dissolved in 1 cup cold water, pinch of salt. Mix all together and set over night. Boil for 4 -hours.

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