Suggestions for Leeks
Dear Aunt Daisy, A little while ago I heard you put over an SOS from a listener regarding the cooking of leeks. Although my hint is very similar to "leeks and white sauce," maybe it is sufficiently different to warfrant a trial. Finely shred the required number of leeks and cook them in a very little salted water. Strain well and stir in a good knob of butter. Make a very rich cheese sauce; serve the leeks on toast with the sauce poured over. The sauce which I make is as follows: Melt 2 ounces of butter in a small saucepan, add two level tablespoons of wholemeal, and stir till dissolved. Thin to the required consistency with milk and the water strained from the leeks, Cook well, and just before serving stir in 3 or 4 tablespoons of grated cheese, Brussels Sprouts used in this way for a tea or luncheon dish are very nice. I had intended writing to you before this, but unfortunately I am an invalid and some days my hands just won’t behave, and I cannot write. May I say how much I enjoyed the Apple Pie Con-
test. For people like myself, the radio is indeed a friend, and while listening to the competition, I couldn’t help thinking how grand it would be if some brainy person could think up some competition for people like myself who cannot get out, and have to depend on the radio for all our pleasures. I wonder if active folk like you can remotely understand what it means never to see anything but the four walls of a bedroom? -" Another Aunt Daisy Fan." ....Very many thanks for the recipe, and many more for your unselfishness in writing to help us when you are so handicapped with your _ ill-health-a strong spirit refusing to be defeated by a weak body! Perhaps someone will be able to think up a "competition for shut-ins." There are often suitable little competitions in. newspapers-sending in the last line of a verse of poetry, and things like that, but we want something for which "well" folks would not be eligible!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 46
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357Suggestions for Leeks New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 46
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