Our Cookery Corner

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 13, 7 October 1932, Unnumbered Page

Our Cookery Corner

Lemon Pie: 14 cupfuls sugar, 1-3 cupful flour, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful butter, 1 cupful boiling water, 1 lemon, pinch of salt. Mix the dry ingredients in a saucepan and pour. in the: boiling water; stirring all the time. Cook for 15 minutes, then add the butter and remove from. the stove. Biend the yolks of the eggs and lemon juice and grated rind together and add them to the contents of the saucepan, being careful that the eggs do not become stringy from the heat. Turn into a pie crust which has been baked a golden: brown. Cover the pie with a meringue made. from the ‘whites of eges, powdered sugar and one teaspoonful of lemon juice, and bake in a moderate oyen till brown. Potato Puff: To 2 pounds mashed potatoes allow 1 large or 2 small eggs, 1 tablespoon butter, pepper and salt to taste. Stir into mashed potators while still warm the butter, seasoning and ;the egg: yolk. Beat the whites until they- are quite stiff and fold them very gently into the potato mixture, taking care not to stir or ‘beat more than is absolutely necessary. Put all into a greased pie-dish and bake in-a brisk ‘oven till nicely browned. It: will: rises up in a puff, so do not fill the. dish too full or it may go over, . Serve very quickly before the puff has time to fall. ‘Scotch Eggs: For each hard-boiled ege allow "one sausage. Remove the meat, "flatten it out, place the egg in the centre and work the meat up and around it until the egg is completely covered and the shape right. Roll first in beaten egg, then in brendcrumbs. Do this twice, then fry in very hot .deep fat, Serve hot with tomato sauce or cold with salad, .

3YA Recipes. HE following recipes for cakes were given from 38YA:Chocolate Cake: 40z, butter, 602. sugar, Goz flour, 3 eggs, $ teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, 2 tablespoons cocoa dissolved in a little boiling water, 1 tablespoon ‘aspberry jam, pixth of salt. Method: Sotten-butfer and cream with sugar, add: water and cocoa, bent eges well and add-to dry ingredients, then add raspberry: jam and salt. Bake in moderate oyeps-fes degrees-45 minutes. Ginger and Walnut Sponge: 3 tablespoons milk, 20%. butter, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2. eges, 1 tablespoon treacle, # cup of-sugar, 14 cups flour, 20z preserved ginger, cut finely, 20z chopped nuts. . Method: Cream butter with sugar, add treacle, beat eggs and add, then milk and dry ingredients alternately, first dissolying the soda in the milk. on ake for 85 minutes in moderate oven. Orange and’. Lemon Cake: 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 6oz butter, grated rind of 2 oranges or lemons, 4+ cup milk, 8 eggs, 4 ‘teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon cre: im of tartar, Method: Same ‘as’ ‘above, but bake for 2 of an. hour in moderate oven, 375 -For- ‘jdng use the juice of oranges. or lemons with enough icing sugur. = Banana’ Cakes 2 eup butter, 1 cup sugar, .2 eggs, 2’ cups’ flour, -3 teaspoon powder, #-teaspoon soda, 4 teaspoon salt, $ cup sour milk, } cup mashed bananas, 1° teaspoon vanilla essence, ns ™ Method: €ream butter and sugar, add eggs .well beatén, mix milk with mashed bananas, .add to dry ingredients, and: hake~ in : ‘darge shallow. tin _in moderate . oven, ~