Tasty Dishes

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 20

Tasty Dishes

k TO BOIL. AN OLD PLUMP HEN MAKE a coarse paste of Hour arid .water and roll, the fowl up m it. Tie up carefully m a cloth like an apple pud- " ding and boll for 3 or 4 hours. Serve: t with onion and parsley sauce.. -„-•,-- ->. CURRIED HARICOT BEANS c CQAK half-pint of haricot beans for 24 li O hours. Bake m a slow oven, well covered with water until done. Chop , half a carrot, an onion and an apple. ' Fry these m one tablespoon of butter; for about five' minutes'. Take them from the 3 pan and put one dessertspoon of flour and s one of curry powder, well mixed, irito the o pan. Stir , well, and add a quarter, of. a ■i pint of the bean water to it. Boil well, stlrrn/g all the time. Add the beans and; serve with rice. : , i FRUIT ROLL A POUND of self-raising flour, half a " r\ pound of lard, margarine or dripping, a pinch of salt, an ounce of grariuy lated sugar, four ounces of currants or a seedless raisins. Mix salt, baiting powder i and flour together. Rub m the .fat until t evenly distributed, and mix with: enough .. very cold water to make a soft,; but not sticky dough. Roll out, . sprinkle the cur- ! > rants arid sugar over it. Roll : dp as you i would a roly-poly. Tie m a cloth and / boil for three hours. .;.: f STEAMED DATE PUDDING s THREE ounces of breadcrumbs,, an ounce. t :'l of .self-raising flour, quarter, of a n l pound of dates; three ounces of . beef suet, a pinch of salt, an egg, a tablespoon ful of golden syrup, two tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix the suet with the breadcrumbs, .salt ''and flour. Add the dates, stoned and finely chopped. Mix with the syrup, a well-rbeaten egg and the'- jnilk. ' Turn ■'•' into, a' greased basin and steam for two hours. . y' yy, V SYD A L--TH E W INTER N ECESS I TY. j Chill winds bite the cheeks, roughen j, the lips and chap the hands— but if a ' little Sydal is rubbed well into the skin - every night; . these ill effects " ;.are d banished. Sydal soothes and improves j the akin, helps the -growth of new tiso sue and ensures smooth; velvety texu ture. "It (will pay to (use Sydal."*