Bunnies On The Grass

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 126, 21 November 1941, Page 47

Bunnies On The Grass

This is always spectacular and quite nourishing, and good as well, The china or glass rabbit-moulds can still be bought, for I got one not long ago. It is nice to have two sizes at least-one a baby bunny. Make a good cornflour blancmange, adding a generous knob of butter just as you are about to remove it from the fire; and fill the moulds, leaving all night to set. The Grass: Make a clear jelly with powdered gelatine; these are the proportions-for each pint of jelly allow 1 tablespoon of powdered gelatine, 2 cups cold water, 1 teaspoon tartaric acid, 2 to 1 cup sugar, and a teaspoon of any flavouring desired. Soak the gelatine in one cup of water for 5 minutes or longer. Bring the sugar and the other cup of water to boiling point, add the gelatine and water, and stir over a low heat until dissolved. Take off the fire, and add the acid and flavouring. This is ordinary clear jelly, which you can use for anything you like, but to make it into the "grass" for the rabbits, just leave it to set without any colouring, When ready, have a small tea- . tray (a dish is seldom big enough) and turn out the jelly upon it. Now chop it into tiny bits, adding green colouring by dabbing it all over, as you chop, with a cork wetted with colouring. This is much better than using a green jelly chopped, because the dabs of green work through, and the bits of clear jelly all mingle together, and it is much more effective and glittering than plain, green jelly. Then turn out the rabbits on to the grass-sit them down realistically, and don’t forget to dab the bunny’s nose and the inside of its ears with a little pink colouring. I hope you can visualise this-I saw it beautifully done at a cooking demonstration at the Centennial Exhibition.