TO-DAY’S RECIPES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 5

TO-DAY’S RECIPES

I IN ECONOMICAL MOOD | AN EGGLESS CAKE K “] Ingredients: lib flour, lib but - “j I' ter, a teacup each of currants , k] seeded raisins, sultanas, sugar and milk, a tablespoon of vinegar, a Ln teaspoon each of bicarbonate of [q soda, ground cinnamon or pudding [q spice, and a little candied peel. Qj Hub the butter into the flour, mix [“ in all the dry ingredients except the soda, moisten the soda with a pj little milk, make a stiff dough, and p-I bake in a moderate oven for an nJ hour. This mixture will also make n] delicious little patty cakes. g DATE CAKE WITHOUT EGGS g Sift one pound of flour, rub into tn it 4IOZ of fat thoroughly, then mix Erj in into it 3 os of chopped dates, 2 os [~j [H sugar, a pine) of mixed s-picc: [S then add enough milk to mix it. pi fd one tablespoonful of vinegar and ru In one tablespoonful of carbonate of p] fn soda. Mix the carbonate of soda pj thoroughly with the milk ana at p] once place in the oven. Bake for tj pj an hour and a-half in a greased fu tin. The heat needs to be moderate, h] &J ECONOMY CAKE The housekeeper is often fright - K ened by the amount of butter and Qi Lq eggs which are the necessary ingre- [“ ft clients of many recipes for calces. QJ There is one at least which is pJ [q really economical and very de - nJ [q lido us. D issolve three ounces of fQ [q sugar in a teacup of hot water, m Mix quarter of a pound of honey p] gj into half a pound of flour, add a p] pj pinch of aniseed powder and a pJ pinch of salt. Stir in the liquid rO sugar, beat well for at least ten jj] p] minutes—this is essential to the Ln p] success of the cake — and bake in a Cj p] moderate oven in a well-greased tin Qj for about three-quarters of an [q jjj ' hour - pj