CAULIFLOWER DISHES AND PICKLES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 216, 13 August 1943, Page 19

CAULIFLOWER DISHES AND PICKLES

most plentiful of all vegetables just now, so here are some suggestions for varying the usual dish of steamed or boiled cauliflower with white or parsley sauce, good though that be. Cauliflower Fritters (With Cheese) Cook cauliflower, not too soft, drain in colander and hold under gently running cold water tap for a minute or two. Break into small bouquets, Make a batter of 2 well-beaten eggs and a quarter pound of grated cheese, pepper and salt to taste, Dip the bouquets into this and fry brown in hot butter. An ordinary batter flavoured with grated cheese would be cheaper, but not so good. (CC pent seem to be the

Cauliflower Pickle (Sweet) Cut finely a large cauliflower and 4 large onions, sprinkle with salt and leave all night. Strain well. Boil for 20 minutes in one quart of vinegar. Now mix half-cup flour, 2 teacups golden syrup, half tablespoon each of curry and of turmeric, and 14% tablespoons mustard (or. to taste), with one pint vinegar, Stir this into the boiling mixture, boil 5 minutes and bottle. Cover when cold, Coral Cauliflower Soup A tasty and pretty soup-easily made if you still have some preserved tomato pulp. Or you may be able to buy some tinned tomatoes, and put through a sieve. Boil a cauliflower as usual, strain, and press it through a sieve, or mash it carefully. Save a few sprigs, so that you may put one or two as a garnish in each bowl of soup. Chop an onion and cook without browning in a little butter, Put into a large saucepan the sieved cauliflower, about half as much _ pulped tomato, and the onion, and bring to the boil with pepper and salt to taste, and a little sugar. Then add about 114 pints of warm milk, or milk mixed with water strained from potatoes; heat, but do not boil. A little chopped celery may be cooked with the onion, Very nice. Cauliflower Pie Cook cauliflower as usual, drain and. mash well. Season with salt, pepper and a little chopped thyme and parsley. Stir in about 2ozs, of grated cheese and

2 tablespoons of milk. Butter a pie-dish, line it with this mixture, adding a sprinkling of grated onion, Then put a layer of your preserved tomatoes, or a layer of sliced and skinned raw tree-tomatoes. Dot with butter. Cover with the remainder of the first mixture, spread with | a thick layer of mashed potatoes, mark with a fork, dot with butter, and bake in oven 35 to 45 minutes, Cauliflower Savoury Make a good white sauce, adding plenty of chopped parsley, a pinch of cayenne, and a few chopped radishes. Half-fill a pie-dish with cooked and mashed cauliflower, pour half the sauce over it, then add the rest of cauliflower, and pour over the remainder of the sauce. Cover with breadcrumbs, or better still, wheat-flakes; dot liberally with butter and bake in moderate oven for about half an hour,