USEFUL RECIFES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 27, 24 September 1931, Page 5

USEFUL RECIFES

Ayrshire Sh'ortbreads. Ingredients : Jlb flour, Jlb rice flour, Jlb butter, small tahlespoon cream, -J egg, 1 small dessertspoon milk," 2oz castor sugar. Method: Beat the egg. Add cream and beat a moment or two. " Mix the flour, rice flour and sugar together and rub in the butter, then stir in the egg and milk. "Mix with the hand to a soft dough, turn on to a pastry hoard anad knead a little. Roll out. Cut into fancy shapes. Place in a tin lined with buttered paper. Prick with a fork, and bake in a rather quick oven about 10 minutes till erisp and pale gold. Remove to a cake rack, sprinkle with castor sugar, and when cold store in a tin with a tightly fitting lid. Newmarket Sandwiches. Ingredients: 2 cups cold cooked ■chicken, 1 cup cold cooked sweetbread, French dressing, 1 cup minced mushrooms, mayonnaise, white bread, salt and pepper. Method : Mix minced chicken, mushrooms and sweetbread together after all are flnely chopped, adding salt and pepper. Moisten well with French dressing, and stand for two hours in a cold place till the mixture is well seasoned. Drain thoroughly and mix with just enough mayonnaise to flavour. Ghill again, and use as a fllling between slices of thin white buttered bread, or bread spread with mayonnaise in place of butter. Press sandwiches together and remove crusts. Cut in three strips, or, if wanted for picnics or race meetings, leave pieces whole. If liked, a little mustard and cress or any green salad can be placed over fllling before putting the slices together. Junket Ice Cream. Ingredients : 1 quart milk, 1 teaspoon rennet, 1£ cups castor sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla essence, 1 cup tliick ■cream, 2 or 3 grains of salt. I-Ieat the milk till tepid. Stir in the sugar and salt and pour into the freezer container. Stir in the rennet. Add vanilla flavouring. When mixture is thick, stir in the cream and freeze as usual. Knough for six.