SAVING MEAT COUPONS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 22

SAVING MEAT COUPONS

ERE are some further ideas for serving tasty dinners without using any more meat coupons, by utilising and "stretching" left-overs, as well as the unrationed meats, Shirley Fritters These are surprisingly good and make quite a good meal for three people with only % cup of minced cooked meat. Any scraps of cold cooked meat which appear hardly worth saving can be put together for this-tiny bits of mutton and beef (fresh or corned), scraps of fowl or bacon or kidney. One cup flour; 144 teaspoons baking powder; 42 teaspoon salt; 1 well-beaten egg; 7/2 cup milk; half-cup of cold minced meat; 2 teaspoons chopped parsley; 1 dessertspoon grated onion; pinch of mixed herbs if liked. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add the milk to the beaten egg and mix with the flour, etc. Then add. the other ingredients, Fry in des--sertspoon-lots in» fairly deep hot fat, only about 2 minutes each side. Serve with baked tomatoes, green vegetables and jacket potatoes. Do not alter the proportions. Scraps of cold lamb are especially nice for these. Tongue Casserole Boil sheep’s tongues till they will peel easily. Trim off bases and slit in half lengthwise. Grease a casserole, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, chopped parsley, a little thyme, pepper and salt to taste. Put in a layer of tongue and four slices of lean bacon; then remainder of tongue. Pour 1 cup of milk ovér, and cover with breadcrumbs and parsley. Cook slowly in moderate oven for 1 hour. Remove lid, spread good layer of mashed potatoes on top and cook again till nicely browned. Toad-in-the-Hole Prick a pound of sausages, pork or beef, put into saucepan with cold water and bring to the 1, Simmer very gently for five minutes. Take out, remove skin, cut into half lengthwise then again sideways, Make a light batter with 4oz. flour sifted with 1% teaspoon baking powder and a teaspoon of salt. Make a well in the middle of the flour, and drop in a whole egg. Stir it gradually into the flour, then add about 14 pint milk gradually, stirring to form a smooth batter, Then beat hard to introduce as much air as possible. Put about loz. to 1¥go0z. of good beef dripping into an oven-dish, and put into oven till the fat is smoking hot. Then pour in the batter, and distribute the pieces of sausage in it. Return _ quickly to oven and cook about to 45 minutes, Liver and Onions . Cut the liver into thick slices or chunky pieces so that they will be juicy when cooked; and do not cook too long-3 to 5 minutes, according to size and thickness. Dip the pieces into seasoned flour, working in a real coating with the fingers. It is a good idea to use a deep saucepan instead of a frying

pan, to avoid splashing the stove. Have the fat smoking hot and about 4% inch deep. Put in the liver and cook gently on each side, turning with a spoon, because sticking a fork in will let the juice escape. Serve it very _ hot, Cook the onion rirlgs at the same time in a separate deep pan of deep smokinghot clean fat. They are cooked in 3 to 4 minutes. Cut big onions into thick

slices and separate into rings with the fingers. Dip these first into milk. then into flour. Shake off surplus flour and drop them into the deep fat. Remove with perforated spoon ‘ard drain on crumpled paper. Fry the bacon (or grill). Serve very hot, on hot plates, with mashed potatoes sprinkled with chopped parsley, and a green vegetable, The bacon slices may also be dipped first in milk and then in flour and fried in the pan after the liver, if desired, The secret of good fried liver is the fair thickness, the well-floured surface, the hot fat, and the short time of cooking, as well as the turning with a spoon instead of sticking in a fork, Corned Beef Hash This is a very tasty dish, served with any green vegetable, and apple sauce. Remove skin and gristle from cooked corned beef; then dice. Add an equal quantity of cold. boiled, chopped potatoes, not mashed, Season with salt and pepper, moisten with good top milk, mix well, and spread evenly in hot buttered frying pan. Place over low heat to brown underneath. May, be turned carefully and browned on other side; or simply cut out in individual portions, and put browned side" upwards on hot plates, Ham Loaf (Hollywood) Two cups minced cooked ham; 1 cup breadcrumBs; 42 cup milk; 1 cup cold water; 1 sliced onion; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 eggs; 2 teaspoons dry mustard; % teaspoon pepper; 1 teaspoon butter. Mix together well. Mould into a loaf, bake in moderate oven 350 degrees about 1 hour, Sprinkle top with brown sugar, and stud with a few whole cloves before baking. Devon Pie ‘At ‘bottom of deep pie-dish put a layer of thinly sliced lamb’s liver. Cover with layers of thinly sliced raw onion, Taw potato, and bacon. Repeat the

layers, having the top layer of potato. Fill up the dish with water with a little gravy colouring added. Season the layers as desired. Cover with flaky pastry. This pie requires long slow cooking-at least 142 hours-hot oven at first to cook pastry then reduce heat.