Our Cookery Corner

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 22, 11 December 1931, Page 32

Our Cookery Corner

Sole With Mushrooms. Ar a pound of fresh mushrooms of medium size are sliced and placed. in a flat fireproof pan, in which two’ full tablespoonfuls of butter have been melted. Sprinkle ‘with finelychopped ‘parsley, pepper, and_ salt, Cook this gently in a moderate oven until the--mushrooms are softened, which should take about 20 to 25 minutes. ' Stir occasionally, so that the butter covers all the pieces. Take 4 filleted sole and lay the pieces flat on top of the mushrooms. Cover them with some cream, or milk, or both. About one tablesponful to each piece is sufficient. Place in the oven for ten minutes, ‘The fish must not be dry-it should be feathery and tendér and quite white. Fruit Salad Dressing. THE flavour of a fruit salad is greatly enhanced by. the following dressing, the recipe for which comes from Ontario. It is an excellent dressing to use with all fruits, summer and winter. -Take two eggs, three-quarters of cup of pineapple juice (from tinned fruit), a’ ‘pinch of salt, half a cup. of sugar. _> Separate eggs, heat beaten yolks with sugar and pineapple juice, put in double pan, stir till it thickens, cool Add whites of eggs. Chopped nuts and Marachino cherries can be added as liked.-M.B.S.

Eggs in Ambush. TPAKE eight hard-boiled eggs. | Cut ‘™ six of these in quarters lengthwise. Similar quantity (cut in lengths) of unpared cucumbers. Coat a border mould with aspic jelly. When set arrange alternately egg and cucumbers, white and green to outer side of mould. Fill up with aspie jelly. When cold turn on to dish and fill up the centre with the whites of the two remaining eggs cut in strips,: young green peus and new potatoes cold and cooked, and mixed with mayonnaise sauce, Arrange a little frill of small lettuce leaves between border and filling, and pile twe or three spoonfuls of whipped cream on top. Garnish with capers, one or two olives, and coraline pepper. ‘Coconut Buns. Sieve one pound of fiour into a basin. adding to it-a pinch of salt, two ov. of fine sugar, and a teaspoonful of baking powder; also the grated rind ‘of half a ‘lemon. | Crumble into these ingredients three oz. of butter, and, when quite fine, add two: oz. of desiccated coconut... _. Beat one egg, and with it form the whole into a stiff dough, using a few drops of milk if wanted. Put in little rough heaps on a greased tin, and’ buke in a moderate even for ten minutes,