SPECIAL RECIPES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1939, Page 10

SPECIAL RECIPES

AUNT DAISY AT HANSELL’S. That popular radio personality, Aunt Daisy, was a visitor to Hansell Laboratories last Friday. She will later be broadcasting a description of the factory and its processess of manufacture and spent some hours on Friday familiarising herself with the methods used at this “garden factory” as she so aptly described it.. For “Times-Age” readers, Aunt Daisy gave these specially recommended recipes:—

SEED CAKE. Three-quarters lb. flour. Jib. sugar, Jib. butter, half-cup milk, 1 teaspoonbaking powder, a pinch 8f salt, quarter teaspoon Hansell’s cloudy lemon food flavouring, half teaspoon Hansell’s cloudy caraway food flavouring, 3 eggs, Joz. caraway seeds. Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time; beat well. Add milk gradually, then sifted flour, etc., and flavouring last. Mix well but lightly. Bake about 1! hours in a moderate oven. This mixture is also good for sultana cake —half-pound of sultanas may be used instead of caraway seeds. TIRED HOUSEWIFE CAKE. Two Jb. flour, lib. butter, 11b sugar, lib. sultanas, 11b. currants, 4 small teaspoons carbonate of soda, 4 eggs, Jib. mixed peel, ’ 1 teaspoon Hansell’s cloudy lemon food flavouring, 1 pint of boiling milk. Method. —Rub soda into flour, then butter; add sugar, fruit; beat up eggs well; add to milk, then.mix all together. Bake for two hours in a meat tin; nice oven. DUNDEE CAKE.

One cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, I teaspoon Hansell’s cloudy vanilla food flavouring, 1 teaspoon Hansell’s cloudy whisky food flavouring, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2ozs. candied peel. Jib. currants. Jib. sultanas, 3ozs. finely-chopped almonds. half-cup warm water, 2 cups flour. Method.—Beat butter and sugar to a cream; add eggs one at a time, then flavouring. Sift in flour and baking powder; add fruit, and, lastly, warm water. Beat whole together. Bake II hours in a moderate oven.

RASPBERRY JAM MADE WITH TOMATOES.

Four lb. tomatoes, 31b. sugar, juice of 1 lemon, half-bottle of Hansell’s cloudy raspberry flavouring. Method. —Skin tomatoes and cut up fairly fine; add sugar and lemon juice and boil gently for just about two hours. Then stir in flavouring. Do not boil aftei’ flavouring is added, or flavour is lost.* .