EXCELLENT, SEASONABLE, AND TESTED RECIPES

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 38, 27 February 1930, Page 2

EXCELLENT, SEASONABLE, AND TESTED RECIPES

Tip-top, Hasty Cake. Mix together in basin, Nl cup flour,

one small cup sugar, two teaspoons bak- * ing powder, pinch salt, melt 26zs butter, drop in two eggs, and atirr. Ad£ to flour a little milk, to make right conaistencj'. Put in two sjjon-ge tins, light the gas of oven,'turning &alf up. Put in tiwo tins, and when oven is hot, cake is cooked. The charm of this novel way of cooking the cake is that it saves 10 minutes' gas. ...-■■, I>emon Pudding. One cup white §ugar/ 1 lemon, 2 tablespoons arrowroot, ox- eornflot»r». Yokes 2 eggs, 1 desertspoon butter. Blend arrowroot with little cold water, add laibeaten yokes of eggs, sugar, lemon juice, grated rind,. Add 3. cups boiling-water, and boil well- Mix butter well through, turn into Jdisli, beat whites of eggs with sugai for top, bake^ light brown. Serve cold. Ham and Cheese Savoury. For each person use a slice of bread. Cut each into triangular shape, trim.off crust, dip in melted butter, toU in grated cheese, lay on a greased pan, and Bprinkle with chopped iham. Dust thickly with more grated cheese, season with p©pper and salt, and bake in hot nvea for 5^ minutes.

To Prevent Jam Burning. The old lady was making jam when I

called, and ±, noticed the 7 top of the stove was strewn with fine graxeL Noting my gaze she said, with a-twin-kle in her eye: "Looks untidy, doesn't it? But.if the preserving pan is pfcteed on top of the loose gravel the jam will never burn no matter how hot the fire is.' ' She stirred the fire -tap and replaced t-he already boling j&m.to prove ' her words. '