Cereal Coffee

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 44

Cereal Coffee

(1) Warm 2 tablespoons of golden syrup in a meat tin, then add 2 breakfast cups of bran. Bake to a golden brown and store in air-tight jars. «To make the coffee, pour boiling water on the bran, then add hot milk, and leave a while to steep. (2) Take 4 cups of bran, and I cup of oatmeal, thoroughly mixed with 1 cup of golden syrup. Bake brown in a slow oven. Turn constantly while baking. Use 1 dessertspoon to each cup of water, and add hot milk. (3) So Bean Coffee: Soak the beans overnight. Next day bake in a moderate oven till they are dark brown. When cold, put through the mincer, and store in air-tight tins. Use 2 teaspoons to a cup.

(Continued from previous page) Meiton Mowbray Pie This is the famous Leicestershire dish, and is made with lean pork only, cut into small dice, and seasoned with pepper and salt. The pastry is made with lard-6 ozs. of lard to each pound of flour, and slightly less than a teacup of boiling milk, Put the milk in a saucepan, add the lard, bring to the boil, and then pour it into the flour already sifted into a mixing bowl. Mix and knead. Mould the pastry over a jam-jar, or one of the old-fashioned wooden potato-mashers; in Leicestershire they have special wooden moulds, Let it stand thus overnight, for the crust to set firmly. Then pack the shape with the diced and seasoned pork, add 2 or 3 tablespoons of cold water, wet the edges, and put on the lid of pastry. Cook in a hot oven for the first half hour, then reduce the heat and cook for 2 hours longer. Nottingham Pork Pie This is really the easiest one of all to make. It is eaten hot, straight from the oven. Rub % Ib. of lard into 2 Ibs. of flour, which has already had a teaspoon of baking powder added. Mix with boiling water to a stiff paste. Roll out and line a deep round tin with it. Fill with the minced or chopped pork. Season with pepper and salt, put a lid of pastry on top, make a small hole in it, and brush over with white of egg. Bake in a moderate oven for about 242 hours. To make the jellied gravy for the pie, put a pig’s foot into a suacepan, cover with water, and simmer until the meat drops from the bone. Then strain some of the liquid into the pie. Put the remainder aside to set, ready for soupmaking. Yorkshire Bacon Take 2 cups of flour, two eggs, two cups of milk, 3% Ib. of bacon, and seasoning to taste. Fry the bacon in the baking dish, then pour the batter over. Bake for 45 minutes in a hot oven, then leave for ten minutes in a less hot oven. Serve hot. A delicious tea dish.