COUNSEL for the COOK

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 54, 25 July 1930, Unnumbered Page

COUNSEL for the COOK

"THESE columns are devoted ihis week to filling the cake and biseuit tins. The prize of 5/- goes to "Evelyn" for the recipe for the delightful little buns, which keep well, called .Nutty Joys. Ingredients4lb. butter, $lb. flour, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 heaped teaspoon cinnamon, a little salt, 1 cup walnuts (do not chop), %-cup sultanas, 4-cup dates, 4-cup raisins, 4-teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, 3 eggs. Method- . Rub the butter into the flour, add all the dry ingredients, and lastly the three eggs, well beaten. When well mixed together, drop the mixture on to a buttered oven sheet in teaspoonfuls. Bake well and not too brown, say about. 15 to 20 minutes. CURE ETE EEE EE EEE

Cherry Kisses \ Ingredients 20z. ground almonds, 3 o%. fine white sugar, 1 egg, few ‘drops of vanilla essence, 20z. glace cherries. Method: Place the almonds and two ounces of the sugar in a basin. Separate the white from the yolk of the egg, and with it, mix the sugar and almonds into a stiff paste, and then add the vanilla. Sift the baking board with Sugar and turn out the paste. MRoll out about half-an-inch thick. Divide the paste into small lozenges, press half a cherry on to each. Place on a dish

and leave to dry

-Miss

A.

Naish

=) Ginger Nuts qh redients 3 teacups flour, 1 teneap sugar, 4 teacup dessicated cocoanut, oz. butter,-1 -teaspoon ground ginger, 14 teaspoons baking powder, 2 tablespoons golden syrup, pinch of salt, a little milk, . Method: Mix the dry ingredients, rub. in butter; add syrup and enough milk to make: a-firm paste; roll out about 4 inch, thick,. -Cut in small rounds,

and bake in moderate oven.

Nada

‘Orange Rocks | Ingredients: ilb. flour,’ 3lb. sugar, 4 ’ Tb. :butter, 1-teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, 2 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1 egg, 4 cup of orange juice,,2 tablespoonfuls of marmalade. Method:Mix’ all’ dry ingredients, rub. in :butter, add well-beaten. eggs, . the rind of the orange grated,'the juice and the’ marmalade.: Drop the mixture in all rough pieces: on the oven ‘try / bake in oven at 350 degrees ‘for 20 nenutes, This ‘mixture makes ' 40

cakes.-

Mary

Foam _ Biscuits Ingredients: 3 cups flour, 1 cup butter, 4 teaspoon baking soda, 4 cup milk, 1 cup sugar. Method: Boil sugar and milk together, add sugar, allow to foam and cool. Rub butter into flour, and then add above mixture. Roll out thin and bake in quick oven. These quantities

fill a 8lb. tin-

Alfa Joy

Date Surprises

Ingredients: 31b. flour, 41b. butter, 1 Ib. fine sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla essence, teaspoon baking powder, dates and almonds. Method: Stone the dates and place a blanched almond in each. Cream the . butter and sugar well, add the egg and essence,.and lastly the sifted flour and baking powder... Mix well and then coat each date with the mixture. Roll into balls and dip in sugar. Place on a cold tray in a hot oven (450 degrees) and bake for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Makes about °50 surprises.-

Tao

Peanut Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup butter, 13 cups sugar, 3 well-beaten eggs, 4 orange or jJemon rind (grated), 1 cup roasted peanuts (coarsely chopped), 3 cups flour, 4 teaspoon baking powder, 3 teaspoon salt. Method: Cream the butter and sugar add the eggs,. rind and nuts, and the flour sifted with the baking powder and salt. Mix well together and drop by teaspoonsful on a floured board and ° pat into thin rounds, using the floured ~ bottom of a cup. Place on oiled pans. and bake in a hot oven (425 degrees) . for about 7 minutes. Makes about 60

cookies.-

~Miss

Whitelaw

Golden Syrup Scones Ingredients: 41b. flour, pinch of salt, + teaspoon (level) baking soda, oz. butter, loz. lemon peel, 2 dessertspcons golden syrup, some milk (preferably sour). Method: Sieve the flour, salt and soda, rub in butter, cut the peel into small pieces and add. Mix all the dry ingredients together, put the golden syrup in the centre of them, and add sufficient milk to make.a soft ‘dough, ‘Turn on to a slightly floured board, and roll out. Cut into shapes,

place on a greased tin and bake for about 15 minutes. Brush over with a glaze of 2 teaspoons of sugar to 2 tablespoons of milk, then return to

oven.-

Electric Oven

Improving Dried Peas RIED peas, obtainable from almost any grocer, become a very valu-

able food, if treated in a certain way. As sold, they contain vitamin B in satisfactory quantity, but no vitamin ©. This vitamin is killed in the drying process. It can, however, be reacquired if the peas are soaked in water for 24 hours, and then laid thickly upon a cloth exposed to air ip a warm room (kitchen will.do). The cloth should be sprinkled with water, morning and evening, to keep it moist. In three days they will sprout, and at the end of a week they will have shoots from half to one inch long. Being now very tender, they can be lightly cooked and are not only an attractive novelty, but a very wholesome dish containing plenty of vitamin © as well as D. Steamed Puddings Ingredients: One large cup of flour 20%. of sugar, 2oz. of margarine, one egg, 2 tablespoons of marmalade, 1 small teaspoon carbonate of soda, halt ‘a cup of milk, Method: Sift the sugar, salt and flour, rub in the margarine, add the beaten egg, also the ‘marmalade, and mix with: the-milk, into which the soda hag been dissolved. Steam three hours, and serve with custard sauce.