Saving Fuel

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 212, 16 July 1943, Page 11

Saving Fuel

Dear Aunt Daisy, Following on your suggestions to save gas, would it not be a good idea if listeners would send in suggestions for fuel-saving dinners, such as the one I am going to cook for this evening. Here it is:-Casserole of steak and kidney cooked in the oven, with it on the same shelf potatoes in their jackets, and a piece of pumpkin, left whole, and with the skin on, placed on the oven shelf, skin at bottom, and a small lump of butter on top and covered with butterpaper, About an hour before the meat is cooked, a very small amount of suet pastry crust, shaped to fit the top of the casserole is placed on top of the meat and the casserole lid fitted firmly on again. All this leaves one oven shelf free for a batch of biscuits. Then half an hour before serving, a milk pudding will be popped in. This is my recipe for Bread and Butter Custard, which I find a great improvement on the usual recipe for same:-One egg beaten in the pie-dish with 1 dessertspoon sugar and half a pint milk and vanilla essence, Then drop in a few sultanas, then butter fairly thin slices of brown bread, just enough to fit the top of the pie-dish, and left floating on top, then sprinkle with nutmeg and cook in the oven. You see, all the dinner is cooked in the oven, besides which, one has one and a-half hours before the pudding is cooked for baking biscuits.-Elizabeth (Wellington).