Mainly about Food

Radio Record, 29 July 1938, Page 46

Mainly about Food

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CHEF

ULY -is truly our coldest month and visions of good and satisfying meals are conjured by everybody. That good old English dish of boiled hand of pork and pease pudding sounds good, doesn’t it? An onion, # carrot, parsnip, turnip and a stick of celery are "the doings" to keep the pork company, 25 minutes being allowed for each pound the joint weighs, and 25 minutes extra. While the pork is boiling, pop in your split peas-about a pound-which have been soaked overnight. Of course, these must be in a bag, tied up to allow for their swelling. When finished, rub through @ sieve, add half an ounce of butter and one egg, salt and pepper,. press into 2,

basin and bake in a hot oven for 30 roinutes. A good recipe for lemon marmalade for diabetics has-been sent in by a sister home-cook from Henderson, and as it’s a "special" recipe, here it is: Weigh one pound of lemons and wash well, and put into pan, covered with cold water. boiling for 15 minutes, then changing the water, which must be boiling, and boil again for some time. Save two pints from this last boiling, divide the lemons and take out the pips, cut the peel into thin strips, return to the water, add 40 tablets of saccharine, and boil for. half an hour. Then add half an ounce of gelatine melted and stir in until dissolved, Fill jars and it will set when cold. The prize this week has gone to Mrs. H. Lindsay, Fairview, Waikino, Auckland, for her splendid recipe for ginger pear pudding. This is a splendid cold-. day "satisfier," and is delicious as well.

Potato Banbury Cakes UB about 141b. cooked . potatoes through sieve, season with salt,. 20z. fine white sugar, little nutmeg, grated rind and juice of one lemon, 20z. warm butter (just slightly warm), 2oz. flour, and 2 well-beaten eggs. Mix to pliable paste and roll out din. thick, using little tlour if necessary. Cut into rounds 3in. across, lay on a spoonful of mixed fruit (currants, raising and ginger are nice) or chopped apricots which have been soaked beforehand and drained. Press another round on top, press and mark edges with a fork, brush with beater. egg and bake moderate oven. Serve

hot; novel and delicious.

TC7 Mrs_

D.M.

J.

(Con Fille)

NO ES EOS Apple and Tomato Savoury use those bottled tomatoes, cook chopped onion and apple in a very little water. Put layers of apple,

onion and tomatoes (preserved or canned) in a buttered dish and finish with a layer of mashed potatoes or breadcrumbs, dot with butter and

brown in the oven:

-Mrs.

J.H.

M.

'(Duhcqin )

Walnut Ginger Snaps AKE 2 dessertspoons ground ginger for Jess), 4oz. butter, 2 tablespoons golden syrup, 40z. flour, 4 tenspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, doz. walnuts (hroken in quarter pieces), 3 tablespoons sugar, 1. teuspoon yanilla essence. Put butter, sugar and syrup in a basin to warm, then add remainder, mix well, and drop on a cold oven tray, with a teaspoon. Bake from 7 to 10 minutes.---

Mrs.

A.M.

W.

(Pine Valley).

Fried Ham "TAKE 4 slices ham (fairly thick), 1 eup orange juice, 2 dessertspoons flour, 2 seedless oranges, fat. Iry the ham till brown on both sides and keep hot on serving dish. Cook 1 tablespoon fat in pan with flour, add orange POPE RE RETR EE EAEEEEALELUAELEBAEEEEEEELEEEEEEETELELEEEELECETETEEELEEEECETETELELETLET ee

ERT TU TREE REECE REDE TAREE SED EEE ERE CET ER REREERERREEERSREREEC TEER RSD R SEER ERAT EE juice still boiling and cook 5 minutes till smooth and thick. Pour round ham. Slice oranges, after removing white and pith and peel orange in overlapping slices over ham, and serve with: fried potatoes. Enongh for + porsoris.

MrS_

H.

W.

( mpsom 1

Health Pudding WiIX the following ingredients thoroughly together :-toz. brown breadcrumbs, 4oz. shredded suet, jIb. figs, fib. stewed prunes, Jb. brown sugar, +lb. currants, 41b,. candied peel 2 eggs and 4-cup golden syrup. Steam fo. throe honre and xcorva with lenry-

flavonred sauce

~Mrs_

M.

( Napier),

Mock Chicken Paste HIS is excellent for suyoury ecliirs or sandwiches, is inexpensive and closely resembles chicken in flavour. Beat an egg well, add to it one tabiespoon sugar, one teaspoon each of mus tard and salt. Next heat in a pan a 3-cup of vinegar and slowly pour in the egg mixture, heating all the time.

Cook it a little, then add #-cup of milk. Cook well through. Now add 3. hardboiled eggs chopped finely, a cup of chopped walnuts and stalk of* celery (chopped). Mix well and use as re-

quirecl:

Marigold

(Napier).

Spinach Casserole 4 CUPS cooked spinach, 1 cup graied cheese, $-teaspoon onion jnice, 2 C88, 3-teaspoon salt, L cup milk, pepper. two-thirds cups breadcrumbs, buttered crumbs. Chop spinach fine, after being steamed, add breadcrumbs, cheese. beaten eggs, milk and onion juiee, sade. pepper and mix well. Put into » bak: ing casserole, cover with buttered erumbs and bake in modernte oven.

Mrs.

L.

S.

(Timaru).

Nougat Sandwich AKE 3 eggs, 402. sugar, 4oz. flour, 4-teaspoon cream tartar, t-teaspoon baking powder, 8 tablespoons water, [ dessertspoon butter, whipped creain, nougat topping. Separate whites anf yolks of eggs. heat whites and sngar very well, stir in sifted flour and cream tartar. Boil buniter and water and pomp On to soda, add to mixture. Bake in two wellgreased sandwich tin 20 to 25 minutes. When cold, sandwich tegether with Whipped cream, then spread cream on top and sprinkle with following nougat topping :--Six tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons water. Boil together without stirring until the mixture tis a golden colour, Pour into g buttered tin and when cold smash up iuto tiny pieces and strew over crenum-tonped

cake:

~Hts

L.

S.

(Timaru),

Fruit Wafers NpINCe nitogether 4Ib. stoned dates, jib. raisins, jlb. stoned prunes, 202, dried apricots, {}lb. walnuts, dib ont monds, add 2 tablespoons sifted icing sugar, 1 tablespoon. ground rice, }$-tewspoon baking powder, pinch salt: add 1 teaspoon each of © Tanesell's. Cloudy Orange and Lemon food flavouring, mix all well together. Turn out on to a board well dusted with ground rice sprinkle ground rice all over and knead well, then roll out very thin, with the board well dusted with ground rice mgain, Cul into oblong shapes, place on cold greased trays, bike jn a slow oven 20 to 25 minutes. When cool, brush over the tops with melted cioceJate and sprinkle with chopped wialanuis ; use a pastry brush for the melted ehoceInte. These nra deliejions and os nice

change.

Hrs

P.

W.

(nehungal 1

Kumera And Kidney YAKS 2 cups cooked mashed kumera, ndd 1 tablespoon butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Spread half the mixture in a greased piedish. Take + or 5. kidneys, cut wp and fry in little dripping with 1 small onion, Take out and drain, then spread over kumeras, add rest of mashed kumeras. Decorate with a fork and add dabs of butter

Cook in good oven BF minutes.

~Mrs.

E.

J.

(Motueka).

Butterscotch Sticks ELT in a saucepan } cup butter and add #hb. light brown sugar; when well mixed leave till warm, then add 1 egg, unbeaten; beat the mixture well. Stir in 1 level cup flour, IT teaspoon baking powder, add + cup finely chopped nuts and 1 teaspoon essence of vanilla. Bake in a well-greased shal-