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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 42, 2 May 1930, Page 26

lave you any Suggestions ...for... Varying the Menu?

Banana Cream Pie. INI: a piedish with short pastry made by mixing 60z. flour, 4oz. buttet, 2 tablespoons sugar, half teaspooh baking powder, with water, and buke in the oven at 450deg. F. until nicely browned. Remove from the oven, abd fill with sliced bananas (use silver or stainless knife for slicing to. avoid discolouring the bananas). Pour over this the yolks of two eggs, beaten with 1 cup of milk and half-cup sugar. Return to the oven; turn off the heat, and leave for half an hour. © Then cover with the stiffly-beaten whites of the two eggs, to which have been adid‘ed 8 tablespoons sugar and a. little vanilla essence, and return to the

oven until meringue is set. -Serve hot or cold with cream.-'Lao." Tomato and Onion ‘Pie. TPAKE 2 Spanish onions, 2lb. firm tomatoes, breaderumbs, butter and seusoning. Peel the onions, cover them with boiling water, let them remain so for at leust two hours, then drain and dry-thoroughly, and: cut them into slices, Heat up ioz. of -butter in a frying pan and fry the onions until lightly browned. Slice the tomatoes, place them in alternate layers with the Onion into a buttered pie-dish, sprinkling each layer lightly with salt and pepper, and liberally with breaderumbs. Cover the whole with a good layer of breadcrumbs, add a few small pieces of butter, and bake in a moderutely hot oven for about one hour."Mary." Strawberry Short | Cake. Two cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 4 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, one-third cup lard, # cup milk. Sift, measure and sift flour with dry ingredients: Out in lard... Add milk to make a soft dough, turn on a slightly floured board; roll or pat out to 4in. thickness. Bake at a temperature of 425 degrees for 20 minutes. Served, slightly crushed strawberries or rasp-betries-Miss Bileen Hooson. Poached Eggs and Mushrooms. Ht. -PINT of white sauce, 4 eggs, 4 slices buttered toast, little chopped parsley, some mushrooms, about oz. ent mushrooms in half, remove the outside skin,’ and heat them in thie sauce for about 15 minutes. Poach the eggs. Place one on each slice of toasi. pour the mushrooms and sauce over. sprinkle with finely-chopped parsley. Sufficient for four persons, at cost of 1/3, A very timely recipe, and one yery convenient for country people."Ritz." Preserved Tomatoes. 12 8. of tomates and #lb, . butter, salt and pepper, and 38 teaspouns of sugar. Put all these into preserving pan, stirring well. ‘Pour the contents ‘through 1 colender, rubbing well with woodén spoon to force everything but skins through. Return to pan, and pol’ for 5 minutes, and then pour the pulp into hot jars jwith new rubbers

and screw down tightly. ‘This pulp will keep for years. If no rubbers available a secure covering may be made:immediately with texwax. lL find this excellent as small totatoes can be so simply used up,-‘Kainui."

SUT Bran Buns. ONE cup flour,.%-cup bran, 4-cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 egg. Rub bytter into dry ingredients, beat the egg, and mix. Bake in greased patty-pans in 4 hot oven, Bat with butter.-Audrey Naish. Potted Steak. THIS recipe is splendid for sandwiches. One and a half pounds steak, 7lb. butter, two tablespoons anchovy paste, }-teaspoon cayenne pepper, teaspoon salt, teaspoon ground cinnamon, teaspoon mace; put all.in a jar and steam three hours, or until

steak is quite done, then put all through mincing machine and mix well wit! own gravy. Put steak through mincing machine’ twive.-Fiat. ‘Luncheon Sausage. Qx» pound beefsteak, $1b. bacon, 31b. " soft breadcruinbs, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon pepper, 2 teaspoons salt, .1 grated nutmeg, 1 large onion. . Put beefsteak and bacon through mincing machine, mix well with breadcrumbs, eggs (beaten), pepper, and salt, and nutmeg and finely-chopped onion. Worm into shape of sausage, tie tightly in cloth, and boil slowly for two hours. Serve when cold, rolled in brown bread crumbs.-Mirianne. Eggless Gingerbread.*" Matt on range in a basin, jb. butter, $-cup sugar, 1 cup of milk, 8-cup of syrup or treacle, 2 teaspoons soda; remove from tle element; then add gradually 24 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of ground ginger, 4-packet of spice, 1 cup of chopped dates. Put chopped almonds on top and bake {- hour. ‘This cake keeps well (if it gets the chance).-J.M." 4 Fish Cakes. ONE cup cooked fish, 3 cups hot mashed potatoes, 1 egg, salt, and pepper to taste, chopped parsley. ’ Mix fish and hot potatoes together, then add beaten egg and finely-chopped parsley and mix till ingredients are evenly distributed. Mould into small cakes, dip in flour, and fry in boiling fat. -If-eggs are plentiful, dip in flour and egg and then fry until a light browi. Serve with sprigs of paisley, and, if liked, garnish with slices of lemon.-"Puawhanenga."

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