SEASONAL APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 8

SEASONAL APPEAL

TRY THESE RECIPES. Here are some recipes with a seasonable appeal: French Beans and Tomato. lib French beans 1 cup sieved tomatoes 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar .! teaspoon pepper

2 tablespoons flour Cut oil' both ends of beans, string carefully, and cut into pieces one inch long. Cook in boiling salted water till lender, then drain. Melt the butter in ;> saucepan, and add flour, sugar, and seasoning, and then sieved tomatoes. Cook till smooth and pour over the beans. Simmer for fifteen minutes and serve not.

Finally, try adding a tablespoon of ; tomato pulp to hot meat gravies and i see how it enriches the colour and the ' flavour. I Grated Chocolate Cake. A cup butter 11 cups sugar ■ 11 teaspoons vanilla I 21 cups flour ' 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup milk 3 egg whites beaten stiff | 2 squares 'unsweetened chocolate, grated Cream butter and one cup sugar, add ! vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder, [ Add to creamed mixture alternately , with milk. Add the remaining half-cup I sugar to beaten egg whites and fold | into cake baiter. Add grated chocolate, j Pour into a greased tin and bake in a I moderate oven for one hour. When I cool, ice with chocolate icing. Double-decker Sandwiches. These consist of thee slices of bread, the middle slice being buttered on both sides, one filling is spread between the j bottom and middle slices, and another ! between the middle and top slices. Suggestions for Fillings. Top; Lettuce and tomato, j Bottom; Ham and tongue. Top: Egg and cress. Bottom: Gelatine of veal. Top: Beetroot. ] Bottom: Beef with horseradish. Fruit Flan. Pastry for Flan; —

Boz flour 3oz butter 2 egg yolks 1 small teaspoon baking powder IJoz ground rice loz lard Water Rubb butter and lard into flour, add other dry ingredients. Then slightly whipped egg yolks and mix with a knife to a firm dough. If eggs are small a little water may bo necessary to bind mixture. Roll out and place in flan ring. Brush over with a little egg. line with fruit and a little sugar and bake in a gas oven on third shelf from top for 30-40 minutes with the automatic gas regulator at No. 7 for 10 minutes and finish on 5.