RECIPES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2224, 9 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

RECIPES.

Macaroon Custard. — Cover the bottom of a pie-dish with some macaroon biscuits. If desired, these may be soaked with a little wine or brandy, but the pudding is very good without, if this is objected to. Pour over a custard made with milk and eggs, sweetened and flavoured to taste. B<»ke in a moderate oven, to avoid curdling the egg>s. Savoury Eggs. — Take four eggs, boil them hard, when cold shell them and cut them in half lengthwise, take out the yolks, beit into a smooth paste. To each egg allow a good slice of butter, half a lcMspoonful of anchovy sauce, and e.iypnne pepper to taste. This should all bo thoroughly mixed with the yolks; thin fill the white halves with this paste. rSt'ivo on a napkin, and garnish with p.irbley. • This is a most appetizing dish, cither for dinner or supper, and enough for eight persons. Aspic of Soi,es. — Take half a dozen fillets of soles, put them in a buttered tin, with popper, salt, and a squeeze of lemon ; cover the tin with a sheet of buttered paper, and put it in the oven ju->t long enough to cook the fillets, then pub them under a weight until cold. Clean and wash some fillets of anchovies, have a little parsley very finely minced, cut the fillets of soles in rounds the size of a penny, make a layer in a plain mould of very pale aspic jelly ; on this, when it begins to sot, dispose in so mo sort of pattern the fillets of anchovies and the , pi°ces of sole, sprinkling each with a litlle pirsley ; fill up the interstices with aspic jelly, and keep on adding layer upon layer of boles and anchovies until tho mould is full. Delmomco Pudding. — Three tablespoonfuls of corn-flour, the yolks of five eirgs, six tablespoonfuls of sugar ; beat tho eggs until light, then add the sugar, then beat again until very light ; mix the corn-flour with a little cold milk, mix all together, and stir into one quart of milk, ju->t as it is about to boil, having previously added, a little salt ; stir ie until it has thickened well ; pour it into a dish for the table, and place it in the oven until it will bear icing ; place over the top a layer of canned peaches or other fruit (it improves the pudding to mix the pyrup of the fruit with the custard part) ; beat the whites to a stiff froth, with two tablespoonfuls of white sugar to an egg ; then put it into the oven until it is a light brown.

"Your language ib wholly uncalled for," as the puljlibher told the author whose \\ orks failed to bell. A Relic of the Revolution. — The bath in which Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday has just been sold by a priest of the diocese of Vannes to the Paris waxworks exhibition for the sum of 500 francs. The priest is stated to have devoted the money to the establishment of a religious school. Sir James Fercusson, as an old Governor of New Zealand, has written an opportune letter to The Times with the view of obviating the injurious effect upon the public estimation of the prosperity of the colony which may be caused by the late terrible eruption of volcanoes, superadded, as it is, to commercial depression. He points out that the volcanic zone is comparatively steiile, and settlement within it has been rare, the eruption, besides, affecting an area not greater than that of Etna or Vesuvius. Di Patriot has a leading article on the Transvaal gold-fields in their pecuniary aspect, the introduction to which is this : "In 2 Chronicles, 1: 15, we read:— " And the King (Solomon) made the silver and the gold to be as the stones of thn streets of Jerusalem.. Some of the worldy dross mii3t have gone to bring things to this. We read, however, that besides the treasures his father, David, left him, King Hiram of Tyre made him a present of 120 talents, about £576, d00 ; that the Queen of Sheba cast into his tua-jury a like sum ; that his ships once brought him fiom Ophir gold to the value of about £3,000,000, and that according to the estimate made the gold, the silver and the copper used in building the Temple represents about £6,904,822,500. [We make no mistake in the number of figures.] Hence" say 3 Di Patriot, "We do not wonder any more that the writers of Chronicles compared the siher and gold to the paving Btoues of the streets of Jerusalem for quantity." But let us give the elegant Duteh — "die taal van ons nasie" — within tins is conveyed: — "Dan ver- \\ onder dit ons glad ni meer ni, dat di skrywer van di Kronyken, di silver en goud by di straatstene van Jeiusalcm vcrgelyk." The writer then exhorts the Africanders to form prospecting companies of their own ; "for he asks, " why should 3trangers depart hence, with the gains which are here obtainable by us." Vfs, why ? Every colonist would be glad to sea colonists reap the largest share of the profits from the gold discoveries. The reason is obvioum. But, some way, that labour with pick and shovel does not agree, constitutionally, with mos*; colonists.