NEW YEAR DINNER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 319, 29 December 1936, Page 2

NEW YEAR DINNER

Specially Designed Menu For New Zealand. ■ Here is a selected dinner which should suit you this New Year’s Day. Cold meats- such, as ham, Jamb, tongjie or poultry.. . ; Vegetables: -New ootatoes, with ■parsley butter,} asparagus, or green pea and tornado salad, ‘or green peas lb tomato cups; butter beans or French beans. <... Sweet (for the lucky possessors of refrigerators): Ice cream with passiofi ‘fruit sauce, or ice cream with Irieringues, or pineapple Bavarian •‘cream; 1 Nuts and ginger; muscatels; Christmas sweets; cool drinks. •- •. V’i - ■ ' Green Pea's in Tomato Cups. Cook the usual quantity of pea:; I by simmering gently' in the*minimum | of water. Add butter and seasoning, j Take one medium-sized tomato or, more per person. Using a sharp j knife,'cut a slice off its end, and Scoop put jthe inside with a spoon. Sprinkle the shell w"ith salt and pepper and fill with the seasoned peas. Bake in a moderate oven for about 10 minutes.

Boiled Salad Dressing. a .large. jar of this to last bverihe busy season. Flour, 2 tablespoons; sugar, tablespoons; mustard, 1 tablespoon; salt, i teaspoon; eggs, 1 or 2 yolks; milk, 3 cup; vinegar or lemon juice, i cup; butter, 1J tablespoons. Mix - together the salt, mustard, ’•sugar, .pepper and flour. Beat the egg slightly and to this add the milk. Add .do: dry ingredients, place in a saucepan over hot water, and stir - constantly while adding vinegar very gradually. When the mixture -thickens HKe custard, add the butter. Coo) and beat for a few minutes.

• . Pineapple Bavarian Cream. Gelatine,.! tablespoon; cold water, 1 cup’; sugar, l-3rd cup; pineapple juice, I cup; lemon juice, 1 tablespoon; grated pineapple, J cup; cream, 1 cup. Soak the gelatine in the cold water and add it with the sugar to the hot pineapple juice. Stir until dissolved. Cool and add the lemon juice. As the mixture begips to thicken fold in the grated pineapple and the whipned cream. Turn into a prepared mould *"' . ■ and set to cool. Parsley butter is simply butter with chopped parsley creamed into 'it.