EXCELLENT, SEASONABLE AND TESTED RECIPES.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 42, 27 March 1930, Page 2

EXCELLENT, SEASONABLE AND TESTED RECIPES.

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Chocolate Sandwick Cake.

Sift together 2 cups flour, 2 taibleapoons cornflower and 1 saltapbon salt. Cream i cup butter with 1J cup brown eugar, ard 2 well-beaten eggs, and to /this add the sifted flour, "etc., alternately with i cup of sout milk. Beat int* this miorture 1 cup boiling water into which has been stirred 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda, liozs meltednplain chocolate and 1 teaspoon vanilla essence. "When the whole is well blended, divide into 3 and bake in 3 sandwicl tins for half hour in a moderate oven. Ice between layers and over cake with soft white icing flavoured with lemoajuice, or with a chocolate-icing flavoured with vanilla. Raspberry Slice. Quarter pound butter, lib sugar, £lb flour, Jib cornflower, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg. Cream butter and sugar and mik in. usual way; knead into a buttered tin spread with raspberry jam and cover with the following: One large cup sugar, 1. large cup dessicated cocoanut, 1 egg; mix thoToughly and work down on to the jam with a fork. TBake in slow oven and cut into squares

when almost cold.

Steak Sutffed with Apples.

Take about 21b top-ide steak, 4 large cooking apples, 1 oz breadcrumbs^... 1 oss butter and Ithe jui<to of half lemon. Peel, coTe, and thickly slice tihe apples, then with a sharp knife make a little slit in the beef w and fill with apple. Sew up so that apples cannot fall out, brush with melt* ed butter, roll in the bread-crumbs, sprinkle witlh. lemon-juice and wrap in greased paper. Bake for 1* houds to serve witttv thick* brown gravy and [vegetables.

Delicious Cabbage.

Slieo tke cabbage as ..a lettuce is prepared ftvr salad. Put into a saucepan with, a dessertspoon, of butter, sprinkle 'with, pepper and salt and add half cup boiling water.., Put over moderate flame for about half an hour, stirring occasionally so that it does not burn, and serve w&en cooked. There is no liquir to strain away and all the nourishment is still contained in tie cabbage instead of being pour-

Ed away.