Cookery Nook

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 16

Cookery Nook

"COOKERY NOOK" recipes are supplied for "N.Z. Truth" exclusively each week by Miss Marion Christian, demonstrator at the Wellington Gas Company. Lobster Savories TNGREDIENTS;— 'I gill milk, loz. butter, loz. flour, pepper and salt, 1 small tin lobster or 1 small crayfish, y 2 lb. rougrh puff pastry. Method:— Melt the butter m a pan, add the flour and cook for a second or two. Add milk and stir till • boiling. Cook a little. Turn lobster from tin, drain away all moisture, and chop finely, removing the bones. Add to mixture and season to taste. ■ Allow to get cold. Roll out pastry and cut into squares, put a little mixture upon each and old over corner to corner, so getting three-cornered-shaped savories. Brush Avith beaten egg. Bake quickly for. 20 minutes. , Serve" hot,, garnish with parsley. Spice Cake TNGREDIENTS:— Gozs. sugar, I. tea--1 spoon carbonate of soda, lib. flour, %lb. treacle and syrup mixed, Bozs. butter, 2 tablespoons mixed spice, 3 eggs. ' , ' ■ , Method: — Slightly warm syrup and treacle. ■Cream sugar arid 1 butter, add beaten eggs and flour, also carbonate of soda, syrup, treacle and spice. Put into a greased tin, and put m a moderately hot oven, keep m 20 minutes before opening door, then .reduce heat and cook about i%- hours -altogether.