SOMETHING TASTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 4

SOMETHING TASTY

l FOR AFTERNOON TEA. ‘ These are tasty for afternoon tea: — ANGUS CRISPS. These crisps are delicious for afternoon tea. Put 3oz butter and 1 teaspoon syrup into a pan and allow it to melt. Meanwhile, mix together 2oz cornflakes, 2oz brown sugar and loz rolled oats. Then stir the melted butter and syrup into the dry ingredients, adding a few drops of vanilla essence to flavour. Press the mixture into a greased oblong tin and bake in a moderate oven for about £ hour, till it is a nice golden brown. Leave to cool, and then cut into neat fingers. CREAMED HADDOCK TOAST. Ingredients: Half a pound cooked, flaked haddock, 3 tablespoons thick white sauce, 1 tablespoon cream, 1 teaspoon lenjon juice, salt and cayenne, ■i teaspoon anchovy essence (optional)', 1 egg, 1 dessertspoon butter, buttered toast, parsley. Method: Mix the flaked haddock with anchovy essence, salt and cayand the lightly whisked egg. Season with anchovy essence, salmt and cay- ■ enne; melt the butter in a small ome- , let pan; add the mixture and stir till , set and the underneath is brown. ; Serve on rounds of hot buttered toast. ; Garnish each with a small sprig of i crisp parsley and serve hot. POTATO CAKES. j Half lb flour, 1 teaspoonful baking ‘ powder, -J- teaspoonful salt, 2oz suet 1 (butter, lard or dripping may be used, ' if preferred). Jib mashed potatoes, 1 egg and a.- little milk if required. These cakes are good when eaten ' hot with butter. Although this par- | ticular recipe contains 2oz suet, lard or butter can be substituted. If suet ( is used, it should be chopped as finely ) as possible; otherwise the cakes are ; inclined to be “fatty” in the mouth. I Mix all the* dry ingredients, including I the suet, in a basin, add the beaten egg and sufficient milk to mix to a 1 soft dough. Roll out to -J-inch thick- £ ness, and cut into rounds or squares. c Bake for 30 minutes at a temperature of 360 deg. F. 1 N.B. —-If butter, etc., is used, it is rubbed into the flour.