Easy on Sugar

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 23

Easy on Sugar

Dear Aunt Daisy, You were speaking this morning of a woman in the country putting jelly crystals to good sugar saving uses, even using them to help out in jam-making. Well, I was grateful for the tip about jam, but I have been putting the crystals to various uses for quite some time. You may not have used them in quite so many ways, as some country folk who find it as hard as I do to manage on the ration. There are just my husband and I yet. We will have a little "sugarcoupon" quite soon, but even so we won’t be able to collect on her for six months, and we find it very hard to manage! | However, here’s how to make a lovely custard tart filling. Beat one egg, add 14 cup milk, stand basin in boiling water till it sets, take off heat and stir ir 4 packet of strawberry crystals. Pour it into a cold previously-cooked tart shell, and leave to cool. In most of my cake recipes I put a packet of jelly crystals and make up the rest with ‘sugar. It adds to the niceness of it.'And I haven’t used sugar in stewing fruits for some time. I cook them with water, strain them, place the fruit in a dish, stir the jelly crystals in with the liquid, and pour it over the fruit. Lime jelly for apples looks so nice. And of course, the fruit sets in the jelly. I didn’t think of using jelly crystals for jam, but I made plum with only Yalb. sugar to a pound of those very fleshy blue plums, and it has .set per-|

fectly and is quite sweet enough.-

Mrs:

Anti-Sugar.