COUNSEL for the COOK

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 34

COUNSEL for the COOK

Leamington Cakes Ingredients -14 cups flour, cup sugar, pinch salt, mixed together. Now beat 3 eggs together with $-cup water and add to flour, ete.; then mixed ia 2 tablespoons of melted butter; lastly add 2 teaspoons of baking powder; mix thoroughly and bake in a shallow dish. Method.-When cool cut into squares and finish this way. Make icing with 1lb. icing sugar, 1 dessertspoon cocoa, 1 tablespoon butter, and sufficient milk to make soft icing; now spread the icing on all sides of the cakes and roll in dessicated cocoanut. This is a general favourite with both children and grown-ups.-"Mintz."

Five-minutes’ Pastry Ingredients -llb. flour, $lb. butter, and enough water to make workable dough-not wet. Method-Put the flour into a bowl and cut up all the butter into irregular pieces ; toss up into the flour, add water. I mix with a knife. Turn out on toa well floured board, dredge with flour, then press the roller into the middle, and again on each side. Now do the Same crossways. It now is a mass of humps and hollows; fold over and again press the roller; repeat. By doing this air pockets are:put into the dough, and this makes the pastry light. It is now

ready to roll out. Roll out as thin as possible, dredging free with flour to prevent sticking, which lets out the air. Roll the paste three-quarters, and fold the two ends into the middle. Take the remaining piece rolled out and fold it over the rolls. Do this till the butter disappears-usually three timesand it can be cooked at once. If wanted something extra good, leave it for @ quarter of an hour between each rolling. In a very short time one becomes very quick using this method--"Far-mers Wife." Cornish Pasty Ingredients.-+)b. beefsteak or mutton, 1 small onion and turnip, 1 large potato, 4 teaspoon salt, + teaspoon pepper, 3 tablespoons of cold water or gtavy, tle. pastry. Method.-Cut up beefsteak into small dice, chop onion and turnip finely and slice potato; mix these ingredients together with seasoning and gravy. Roll

out pastry into a round and place the mixture in middle; wet the edges and draw them together at the top, pinching firmly and fluting with finger and thumb. Prick in two or three places with fork. Place.in hot oven and cook for about an hour, lowering the heat when the pastry begins to brown. I make these smaller, cutting the pastry out with a saucer and varying the meat and vegetable mixture for the children to take to school. The pasties are more nourishing than Sandwiches, and if the pastry is plainly made with dripping they are not too rich."Sardonyx." Pineapple Junket Method-On top of a firmly-set junket, pile some whipped cream which has been flavoured with chopped pineapple beaten into it. Take some slices of pineapple, cut each slice into eight pointed pieces, place these round the dish point upwards and serve at onea.

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Coconut Never Fails Ingredients.-Gozs. flour, 2 ozs. of desiccated coconut, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 level teaspoon of powdered cinnamon, 1 egg, 8ozs. of butter, 5ozs. of castor sugar, milk, Method-Beat: butter and sugar to a cream, add the egg, stir it in quickly and beat well. Add the coconut and then the flour sifted with the cinnamon and baking powder, mixing it in gradually and stirring in some milk as required. Turn into paper baking cups, only half filling them. Dredge castor sugar and coconut on top, and bake in a quick oven for about fifteen minutes, (If baking cups are not available, cook in small greased cake tins). -"Ginger." ( Chicken a I'Italienne. Method-Take a fairly large chicken and cut it into portions. Also slice two large tomatoes and two large onions. Place the onions and tomatoes in the bottom of a Saucepan, then lay the chicken on top. Add one breakfast cup of cold water and one dessertspoon of pure olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste. and simmer it for two hours. This is an excellent recipe, and delicious for lunch.-(Please send name and address. ) Fruit Cheese Without Eggs. Ingredients.-3'b. Butter, 4b. Sugar, 1lb. flour, $1b, currants, #lb, sultanas, peel if liked, 2 teaspoons carbonate soda, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 cup milk. little spice. Method-Rub butter into flour, then add all dry ingredients, except soda, and mix well. Dissolve soda in a little hot water and fill cup up with milk, then stir into other ingredients, Lastly, stir in vinegar, put mixture into a greased cake tin, and put into oven at once. Bake for 2} hours in moderate steady oven. This cake keeps well."Wife,"

Prize This Week following is an inexpensive recipe for using up stored heat after baking. The prize of 5/- for it goes to "Keep Smiling," Auckland, for plain shortbread. Take half a pound of flour, and put to it four ounces of white sugar, carefully, and three of dripping; add a little butter, just one ounce of this will go quite far enough. Mix all thoroughly, and bake; the oven should be very slow. .