TRIED RECIPES.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 14, 7 October 1927, Page 7

TRIED RECIPES.

(By "ISADORA")

Lemon Pudding. Two large tablespoonfuls of cornflour, 2 eggs, juice and rind of 1 lemon, 1 cup sugar, 1 pint (2 breakfast cups) boiling water. Mode:— Put cornflour into a basin and then add the egg yolks, then the rind and juice of the lemon and half of the sugar. Mix well together, and then add the water. Put into a saucepan with a small piece of butter and bring to the boil. Pour into a buttered dish. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, add to them the other half of sugar and spread on top. Bake till light brown. Sultana Cake. Cream i lb. of butter and 1 breakfast cup of sugar. Beat in 4 eggs, one at a time, till soft and creamy. Then stir in two breakfast cups of flour (heaped) to which has been added 1 heaped teaspoon of Edmond's baking powder and 1 breakfast cupful of sultanas. Then add i teaspoonful essence of lemon. Beat all for a few minutes and bake for 1£ hours. Aberdeen Sausage. An excellent cold dish. 1J lbs. rump steak, 1 lb. bacon. Put this through the mincing machine. To this add any kind of flavouring, herbs or onions (or both), 1 teacupful of bread-1 crumbs, and 2 eggs. Beat eggs well, and use for binding. Tie in cloth, roly-poly wise, and boil lh hours; turn out on grated breadcrumbs. Cheese Biscuits. Two ounces butter, 2 ozs. flour, 3 ozs. grated cheese, 1 egg, a pinch of salt, cayenne to cover threepenny bit. Rub butter into flour, add cheese, salt and cayenne. Mix to a stiff paste with yolk (or whole egg if small). Roll very thin, and cut into rounds. Bake for 10 or 15 minutes. Dried Apricot Jam. Wash carefully 2 lbs. fruit, and soak for 2 days; drain, and add 6 lbs. sugar and 6 pints cold water; add a few bitter almonds and boil till jellied. Macaroni Soup. Stew a knuckle of veal in 2 quarts of water with sweet herbs, 3 onions, pepper and salt, and a little mace. Break £ lb. of macaroni in small pieces, throw it into a saucepan with some boiling milk and water, and cook till tender. Strain it, and add to the veal stock which will be ready when the meat has left the bones. Just before serving mix in gradually a thickening of 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, mixed very smoothly in I pint of cream (or half cream and half milk). Do not let the soup boil after this. Sponge Crust for Stewed Fruit. Two tablespoonfuls sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter (or dripping), 1 egg, 4 tablespoonfuls cold water, 1 cup flour, h teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. Mode: — Beat sugar and butter, add egg beaten, then water (beat, do not stir). Add flour, etc. Stew fruit, and while hot spone over them like a pie-crust and bake.