TRIED RECIPES.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 17, 18 November 1927, Page 7

TRIED RECIPES.

(By "ISADORA")

Candied Peel (Corrected). —1 lb. crystallised sugar to 6 or 8 lemon or orange skins. Put the skins in slightly salted water for a few days; then boil in fresh cold water till the head of a pin goes in easily. Take out, and then drain well. Boil 1 lb. sugar and 1 cupful water for a few minutes; then pour over the peel and leave for a week. Pour off the syrup and bring to the boil. Put in the peel and boil till clear. Store in preserving jar. * * * Rich Fruit Cake.—lngredients: 1 lb. flour, 2 lb. margarine, £ flat teaspoon carbonate soda, small i teaspoon of cream of tartar, £ lb. seeded raisins, £ lb. sultanas, i lb. candied peel, 2 ozs. glace cherries, i (granulated) sugar, i lb. golden syrup, 3 eggs, 1 gill milk, li ozs. almonds. Method: Grease a large round cake tin and line it with greased paper; mix flour and rising together and put through sifter, rub fat into flour until it is like fine bread crumbs; add to the flour the sugar and all the prepared fruits, mix all well together; beat eggs well and add to them the syrup (slightly warmed) and the milk. Whisk well together; add wet ingredients to the dry and beat well. Put into prepared cake tin. Cover top of cake with the almonds (blanch and cut in halves). Bake in a moderate oven from 2i to 3 hours. * * * Lemon Tart.—Line a sandwich tin with short pastry and fill with the following mixture:—l egg, 1 apple, 1 lemon, •§ large cup sugar. Beat the egg and sugar ot gether, grate the yellow rind of the lemon into the egg, squeeze in the lemon juice; peel the apple and grate it into the mixture. Bake in a hot oven. • * * Banana Fritters. —1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1 Cup flour, 1£ teaspoons sugar, 1 oz. butter,", h teaspoon baking powder, 3 bananas. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add yolk of egg, then milk; beat white of egg stiff, add it and flour alternately; then add powder and bananas cut in half-inch blocks. Drop by tablespoons into boiling fat. Cook till pale brown, taming once; drain. • • • Banana and Rhubarb Tart.—This is a delicious combination of fruit. The bananas should be cut in slices and the rhubarb into short lengths. Arrange the fruit in layers in a pie-dish, and sprinkle with sugar and juice of 1 lemon. Cover with pastry and bake in hot oven.