SOMETHING TASTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 10

SOMETHING TASTY

TRY THESE RECIPES. Pear and Rice Mould. Take 1 tin pears, 3oz rice, 2oz sugar, 1 pint milk, loz butter, 3 strips lemon rind, cochineal, 6 cloves, 1 cherry, 3oz loaf sugar. Wash the rice, put it in a pan of boiling water and boil for five minutes (not more), then strain. Put the rice in a saucepan with the milk, lemon rind, butter, and sugar, and cook as gently as possible till the rice ' goes to mash. When it begins to get thick, put an asbestos mat underneath and stir to-prevent burning. Rinse a border mould in' .cold water and pour in the rice, removing the lemon rind. Turn out when set, and fill centre with pears, putting a clove in each of the top ones to represent a stalk. Boil half a pint of the pear syrup with the sugar till it is reduced to half the quantity, then cool slightly. Brush the centre of the top five or six pears with cochineal, and pour the syrup over. Apricot and Cherry Flan. Take 6oz short pastry, 1 tin apricots, 1 small tin cherries, J lemon, 2oz sugar, U teaspoonfuls cornflour. Cover the inside of a sandwich tin with the pastry and bake it for 20 minutes. Add enough apricot syrup to the cherry juice -to make one and a half gills. Mix half a gill of the syrup smoothly with the cornflour, stirring well. Boil for eight minutes. Arrange the apricots and cherries in the flan case, and pour the cool syrup over. Cheese Savoury. • 1 cup hot milk three-quarters cup grated cheese; 1 cup breadcrumbs; 1 egg; 1 tablespoon butter; quarter-tea-spoon cloudy celery food flavouring; season;, buttered toast. Pour the hot milk on the breadcrumbs; mix in the butter, cheese, flavouring and seasoning and the egg well beaten. Cook slowly till thick. Pour on hot buttered toast and serve. Eggs Scrambled With Cheese. In Normandy, where they like cheese, they scramble eggs with a difference. Melt four ounces of grated cheese in a teaspoon of salted butter, a cup of white stock and flavourings. When well mixed, add four thoroughly beaten eggs, stir until firm, and serve on toast. Raisin or Date Cake. Boz butter, Boz sugar, 14oz flour, pinch soda, 4 or 5 eggs, Boz raisins or dates, a few dgops cloudy lemon food flavouring. Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, flour and soda dissolved in a little milk. Place in a greased and papered deep tin and bake about 1J hours in a moderate oven.