In the Kitchen

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 5, 17 August 1928, Page 13

In the Kitchen

Devon Pasty. UT up finely half a pound each of tender steak and lean mutton. Also cut finely one or two small carrots, one turnip, one onion, and three medium potatoes. Mix all together with salt and pepper, then sprinkle with a tablespoonful of water mixed with a dessertspoon of vinegar. Make pastry of six heaped tablespoons plain flour, half teaspoon baking powder, three-quarters of a cup of lard or dripping, and a pinch of salt. Rub dripping in till crumbly, then add cold water, to which has been added one teaspoon lemon juice. Mix into: a stiff dough, and roll into two portions. Divide meat mixture in half,

atl and en each round of pastry place half the meat and vegetable mixture. Fold over pastry and pinch the edges. Prick the top with a fork. Place on greased baking tin and bake for three-quarters of an hour or an hour in an oven, first hot, then moderate.

Wheatmeal Biscuits. AKE $lb. wheatmeal, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg, grated rind of 1 lemon, i gill of milk. Rub butter into meal, add baking powder, salt, sugar, grated lemon rind. Beat egg, add milk and pour into meal, ete. Turn on to board, knead well, roll out thinly, and stamp into biscuits. Place on greased oven slide, and bake in moderate oven half-hour or more. Coffee Essence. pur ilb. coffee into a saucepan, stir over slow fire for a few minutes to warm, then add a quart of boiling water, and simmer for five minutes. Keep covered and allow to stand for about half an hour. Strain and bottle, ready for use.

Delicious Prunes. THW prunes until tender. When done, split each prune and remove the stone, putting in its place a blanched almond. Serve six or eight prunes in a small fruit dish with whipped cream piled on the top. Drying Choice Flowers for Vases. HOICH flowers like gladioli, liliums, irises, asters, roses, chrysanthemums, fuchsias, carnations, tulips, rhododendrons, ete., are easily "drypreserved." Make some fine clean silver sand comfortably hot in oven. Spread inch layer sand at bottom of large shallow box. Arrange flowers naturally thereon, then cover every part with hot sand. Put several layers of flowers in same box. Place box in warm dry cupboard for a week,

LOL, SE EE OO ON TN NN NN USS SS Sa when flowers should be bone-dry. Remove, gently shake off adhering sand. Arrange in vases without water. So treated flowers keep natural colours for months in a dry room without fading.