MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES

Shannon News, 17 May 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES

The following are recommended and who be appreciated by housewives:—

Economical Sponge Cake.—Take 2 eggs, i cup of sugar, 1 small breaks fast, cup of self-raising flour, 6 teaspoonfuls boiling water, 1 dessert* spoonful of butter. -Beat butter and sugar together for 10 minutes, then add the flour well sifted, then buttej* dissolved in the boiling water. Bake in moderate over 10 to 15 minutes.

Fingers.—Short pastry 3ozi sugar, the white of an egg, loz. almonds blanched. Shred the almonds finely. Beat the white of egg until quite stiff, then stir in the sugar and almonds. Roll out the pastry and cut it into strips Spread almond mixture on them, and bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes. The oven must not be hot enough to more than lightly colour the mixture. Mixed Fruit Pie. —In a piedish place a good layer of well-soaked dried apricots sprinkled with sugar. Cover with thick slices of good cooking apples, adding more sugar. Repeat the 'layers; cover with short paste, and bake in a quick oven. Serve either hot or cold.

Oatmeal Gingerbread.—lnto three barely-filled teacups (31b) of fine oatmeal and one teacup (11b.) of flour rub four ounces of butter or lard. Add a good half-teacupful (30z.) of sugar, a ' teaspoonful of ground ginger, a quarter-teaspoonful "each of bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar and salt —the last three mixed and rubbed free from lumps.' Warm till liquid a teacupful of golden syrup; mix with it a beaten egg, and stir into the dry ingredients, adding, if necessary, a little warm milk or water to moisten the whole. Bake in a greased Yorkshire pudding tin in a moderate oven—usually for a good hour.

Soda Loaves. —4 cups flour, 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, enough milk to mix lightly, and 1 teaspoonful salt. Bake in a moderate oven about i hour.

Prune Roll.—llb. flour, 6 oz. finelychopped suet, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 11b. prunes, and salt. Mix flour and baking powder together; moisten with beaten egg, mixed with enough milk or water to form into a paste, roll not too thinly; have the prunes stewed soft, stones removed, lay on a paste flatly, sprinkle over a squeeze of lemon, add sugar, roll, tie in a cloth, boil 3 hours in plenty boiling water.

Baked Banana Pudding.—6 bananas, 2 teaspoonfuls castor sugar, 2 eggs; and 1 .pint milk. Peel; mash bananas in a basin, add sugar, well beaten eggs, your in boiling milk, * turn, into a* piediah, bake till set.