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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 35, 12 November 1920, Page 12

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MERINGUES. The writer has never tasted better merginues than were made from the following recipe : — Ingredients. — The whites of three eggs, a half-pint breakfastcupful of sugar. Method. — Beat the sugar and whites to a stiff froth with a dover egg-beater. Plaee in dessertspoonfuls on white paper and put on a cold sli-de. This amount of mixtnre makes fifteen. SHEEP'S BRAINS. Put the brains in salt and water to soak for half an hour. Then put on the fire in a saucepan containing cold water ; let simmer for quarter to half an hour. Strain and cut into slices. Ma-ke a thickening with a lump of butter, half a pint of milk and a dessertspoonfnl of flour, pepi per, salt and nutmeg. Place the mixtnre I in a pan or in a small saucepan. Drop the brains in and beat through. This i makes a tasty dish for an invalid or anyone who has weak digestion. MUSTARD PICKLES. A quart of any kind of green vegetables, i Make a brine of four quarts of water and | one pint of salt. Let the vegetables stand in it for twenty-four hours. 'llren i heat just enough to scald in the brine. Turn into a colander to drain. To make the liquor use half a cupful of flour, s'x tablespoonfuls of ground mustard, a tablespoonful of tumeric. Work these into a paste with cold vinega-r, add a cupful of sugar and more vinegar (two qiiarts in all of vinegar) and boil this until it thickens and is smooth, stirring all the time. Add the vegetables and cook till heated

through. Put some allspice, whole ginger in a muslin bag an a little of the vinegar. BBAWN. j ateaK, r Ingredients. — One Poun u „ a of bacon, £lb of breadcrum ^ dessertspoonful of ground gino Method. — Put the bacon, and the breadcrumbs throng ffith Beat the eggs, then mix all tog ^ , a wooden spoon. three greased mould, and steam 0 Turn out when cold. . a m06* Slices of this brawn W chuck ^ acceptable breakfast d!S ■ may be used for this ^*