Our Cookery Corner

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Page 32

Our Cookery Corner

Brownies. QuR favourite cake for the picnic, both because it is so good and because it packs well, is an American recipe, and is called "Brownies" or "Indians." Ingredients: Take 40z. butter, 7oz. sugar, 4 teaspoon baking powder, 4 teaspoon salt, 50z. flour, 20z. unsweetened chocolate, 2 eggs, oz: broken walnut. meats, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Method: Cream butter, add sugar, add melted chocolate and well-beaten yolks of eggs, then flour, baking powder, and salt sifted together. Add well beaten whites of eggs, nuts, and vanilla, and bake about twenty minutes to half an hour in a quick oven. Cut in squares while still in pan, and remove as you would fudge. Novel Apple Pie. HIS is an excellent sweet to be eaten cold, and is very firm, and suitable for a picnic. Method: Stew i1lb. of apples, with sugar, cloves, and-lemon peel. When quite soft and pulpy put into a pie dish and strain off any superfluous. juice. Then take 2 eggs and . their weight in butter and castor sugar, and cream them. Add lb. ground almonds. and some lemon juice to this mixture,

and when the whole hus become 2 stiif paste spread smoothly on the apples, which should have been allowed to get cold. . Place this tart in a moderate oven until it bas become a golden brown. Be very careful not to burn. When cold: this sweet is quite firm. and is particularly suitable for picnics, as it can ‘easily be carried about. . Fish Souffle. HE cooking of fish is generally done in an easy, if not haphazard, way. With the expenditure of a little time and trouble even the commonest of fish can be made to taste deliciously. Try, for example, fish souffle. Ingredients : Take iI1lb. of cold cooked fish of any kind (see that it is finely flaked), 2 eggs, loz. flour, half-a pint of milk and. some finely chopped parsley. Blethod: Melt the butter, add the flour and then the milk slowly. Stir till the mixture boils and simmer for five minutes. Now add the yolks and beat well, then the fish and parsely, and season with salt and pepper. Whip the. whites of the eggs stiffly and fold in;last of all. Put the mixture into a well-gr easel mould or pie-dish and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes.